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General Evening Post

Location

London, Middlesex, United Kingdom

Date

Nov 19, 1771

Page

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Distemper Plagues Cattle. Six-Week Slaughter Suspension

On November 16 in Offend the horned cattle distemper persists in the area. Authorities have ordered a six week halt on slaughter of the sick cattle as a trial measure to curb the outbreak.

Barley Harvest Report From Gloucester County Field

A Gloucestershire gentleman near the Banks of the Severn reaped 700 Winchester barley from 12 acres this year. The crop is described as remarkably clean with scarcely any weed and the grain deemed first quality after threshing. Feed was imported from Hampshire.

Gloucester Severn Hampshire

Arrivals and departures of ships at various ports in 18th century notices

Shipping news lists arrivals from Malaga Alicante Newfoundland and other ports with vessels such as Speedwell Ceres Argo Fortitude's Success Swan and many more. It records departures for Cadiz Lipari Jersey Bristol and Oporto and notes ships and captains along with destinations and ports like Scarborough Scarborough and Jersey.

Riep-News Deat Wimd N Cadiz Packer Collings Cadiz Florida Saunders Senegals Britannia Wade St. Vincent's Stangare-Creek Adventure Whitaker Lipari Prings Gravesend Essex Lutkin King George Harper Martha Gray Batterday Brotherly Love Marthal Noway Speedwell George Malaga Stangate-Creek Ceres Deverton Ditto Thomas and Mary Forfar Argo Greaves Baltick Scarborough Fortitude Thomas Sneed Alicante Bristol de Felicity Chancellor Yarmouthe Road Squirrel Capon Petersburgh Phoenix Durell Newfoundland Jersey Gond Iatenn Meservey N.S. del Carmen Menez London Port Yorient Paine Farner Battory Prince Edward Ampfon Oporto Peggy Broon Exeter Bally Pearce Naples Liberty Andrew Lisbon Sarah Adelgunda Stenaing Dantzick Betty le Brcq Bay of Bisay Good Intent Gould Quebec Barcelona Macrna-Chart Maitland Carolina Elizabeth Wolf F. Am

English suspicion over Falkland Island restitution dispute emerges

A dated Cadiz despatch reports the Vera Cruz arriving from the Falklands with claims that English ships sought to seize the island or Port Egmont. An Irish sailor in Spanish service alleges delays and secrecy, while the letter urges publication in papers to warn the public and inform ministers. Additional details await the next post from Captain Poore Williams aboard Astive bound for Barbadoes.

London Hesse-Darmistadt Germany Levser Cadiz Vera Cruz Don Antonio de la Vega Isle of Falkland Racvford Port Egmont Buenos Ayres Williams Barbadoes

Sailor Letters From Far Ports Describe Storm Losses and Murders

A London dated letter from Ferrol Spain reports a severe squall on the 6th wrecking the foremast of a vessel and crew saved with help from Spaniards who lent a ship to remove gear. News from Kingston Jamaica cites the murder of Captain Scott and his crew aboard the Charming Sully, with a mulatto suspect. Reports from The Hague and Paris mention plague measures in Moscow, tensions between Russia and Vienna, and Parisian political shifts. Also noted are bread-price reductions in Guildhall, court actions, and local obituaries and promotions in British regiments.

Ferrol Kingston Jamaica Suonay Carthagena Scott the Hague Petersbourg Moscow Rusia Vienna Peterbourg Republick of Ragusa Liege d’Elderen Paris Dijor Marquis de Tour du’ Pin Italy Guildhall Ladbroke Alsop Aspill Trecothick Peers Halifax Shakespear Amilaile Bennett Roffiter James Langham Pigot Oxford-road Bow-street Richardon Kensington Gore Lottady Woodstreet Deborah Blackwell Sayer Islington Powell Benjamin Bernard Regiment of Foot Henningtom Harry Blunt

Rowland Holt Proposes for Surf Folk County Election

In a formal address to the Gentlemen Clergy and Freeholders at Stowmarket, Rowland Holt accepts nomination to represent Surf folk in Parliament. He pledges constant attendance and faithful service, asking for votes and continued support to merit future favour.

Surfolk Stowmarket Rowland Holt

Innkeeper Denies Horse Distemper Rumor at Ware

William Cowling of the Black Bull Inn Ware refutes James Smith of the Angel at Bark Way Hertfordshire for reporting a distemper in his stables. He states in office that in years of business he has never had such an infection and calls the report false. The notice is dated October 10, 1971.

James Smith Angel Barkway Hertfordshire William Cowling Black-Bull Inn Ware

South Holland Land-Owners oppose proposed river Nene tax

A October 28 1797 meeting of South Holland landowners declares that lands will gain no benefit from the Northiever undertakers plan to tax them for the river Nene project and vows vigorous opposition prior to Parliament. A further meeting is set for November 25 at Holbeach with delegates urged to attend. A separate notice from George Alexander Stevens denies authorship of a book of songs falsely attributed to him, stating the songs are taken from mutilated copies and announcing a forthcoming volume printed at Oxford with additional material.

South. Holland Buil Fleet Wiseeach South-Holland Nene Wilbeath Grundy Waller General Evening Post Cambridge Journal Whitehaven George Alexander Stevens Burt Oxford Ruffé Covent-earden

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