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Newspaper
General Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Nov 02, 1773
Page
3
From Dunbar came word that during ground work for a new street workers uncovered silver coins, mainly Queen Elizabeth era. The find is thought to have been buried by Oliver Cromwell's soldiers before the 1650 Battle of Dunbar against Scottish forces led by General Lesley on September 3, 1650.
On Friday night Mr Jones, a maltster from Stratford, was seized at the four mile stone on his road home from Alderminster by two footpads. One held the bridle, the other struck him and pulled him from his horse. They rifled his pockets of about 20 guineas and his watch. In Bath, a barbarous murder occurred at Turley near Bradford where a son-in-law killed Adam Troftley by cleaving his skull with a stone after interference in a quarrel with Troftley’s wife. the killer was captured and committed to Salisbury jail.
Nov 2 reports ships sailing and arriving at various ports. Vessels preparing to depart include the Hilton Featherstone Plymouth Swansey and Antigua Gisbon Senegal Leghorn, while the Martha and Crockat depart for Jamaica and Rotterdam respectively. Arrivals list ships at Southampton Oporto Bristol Margate Falmouth and Jamaica Britannia with crews and origin points.
In a Moon Tavern gathering the Livery of London votes Fred Bull, the Lord Mayor elect, as the candidate to represent the City in Parliament in place of the late Sir Robert Ladbroke. Siren voices contest the process while resolutions request publication and thanks to the chair.
A man of means abroad seeks a suitable wife, lamenting the vices of high life and low imitation. He lists three candidate women aged 26, 23, and a sprightly fortune-rich yet loud companion, critiquing manners, cleanliness, and disposition while rejecting mercenary or insipid matches.
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