General Evening Post in London, Middlesex

Saint Luke's Day and Oddities on the Thames

On Saint Luke's Day the Harteres Ovation was spoken in Latin by Dr Thomas Lawrence before the College of Physicians in Warwick Lane, with many attendees and an entertainment. The Painter Stainers feasted in Little Prinity Lane. A crowd of Cuckolds and the Miller with his wife rode to Charlton fair. The Terror Bomb arrived from the Mediterranean. Lottery number 35004 drew a prize of 10000. Notes from Tolland and a Bridget Defoe pamphlet claim. A visitor reports on Bridget Dowling or Bridget Deftock with mixed claims of cures and skepticism about her healing power.