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Newspaper
General Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Mar 30, 1790
Page
1
Cuatuam March 29. Miles Penfold, a ship wright, was driving a bolt when a maul struck the support chain. The chain broke and the fate fell, fatally wounding him within a quarter hour. Two other men were injured, one seriously and the other slightly.
Deal March 29 ships wind north then failed. Hardie and Tortola Thomas Furber for New Brunswick, Ann Tock Sijrn for Lisbon. Scout sleep remains in the Downs. Gravefnd March 29 ship Friend passes Rotterdam Emanuel Biorn Ebenezer Lawson Norway Good Hope Alders Delphzeal.
Activities at Whitehall and Guildhall reveal discussions on a Commander in Chief appointment, navigation improvements on the Thames, and proposals to purchase artwork. Also reported are taxes on bread, court sessions, ship timbers, tobacco bills, duels, racing, lotteries, and multiple late eighteenth century bankruptcy and divorce notices with local social updates.
Eight miles from Oswestry and five from Llanfyiling, the Lloran Penybon t estates are offered in parts or whole in Denbigh Montgomery and Salop. Buildings in repair, extensive sheepwalk, good country near lime and coal. Whitfield of Lloran to act for premises with Corbet and Humphrey Jones named for particulars. Also notices regarding claims against Matthias Fox of Wisbech and creditors urged to send accounts to executors Fawffett Bellamy and Wisbech attorneys. March 22, 1790.
Gentlemen of the Town and neighbourhood of Basingstoke announce a meeting on the fifth day of April at one o clock to support Sir William Heathcote and Mr Chute and friends of the King and Constitution. Freeholders in the vicinity urged to attend after receiving stewards invitations. A public ball will follow that evening at the Hall.
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