Farce of Augustus Peas in a London Justice Scene
A satirical letter fragment mocks a London magistrate named Augustus Peas, depicting a mock trial over frying bacon. The imagined scene features a boy, a constable, and a comical court of judicature with a humorous discovery about misdamming and a joke about beacons.
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Shakespear
Augustus Peas
John
Augustus
Mary Blabtruth
Dorothy Lightfinger
Mr. August
D. Dor
Mary Bradtruth
Mary Blair
Angus
Mary
Kishen
Thomas and
August
Justice
Commocritus
Floating Light Vessel Replaced Near Edystone Rock
Trinity House announces the Floating Light Vessel near Edystone Rock broke from moorings in a gale on the 14th and will be replaced at once. Whitehall notes a fire damage to a temporary London Bridge structure on the 11th Instant with a reward of 200 pounds offered for information leading to conviction of those responsible. Guildhall, April 12, 1758.
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Embden
Strombolo
England
Holmes
Prussia
Royal Academy of Sciences of
Paris
M. Belidor
M.de Vaucauson
Minerva
Gracieuse
Toulon
Mahon
St. James’s Park
George Gally
Gregory
Cadiz
Pool
St. Andrew
Duke of Cornwall
Bristol
Melanipe
Lockhart
Trent
Southampton
Colby
House of Commons
City of London
Dean Street
Westminster School
Keeper
Dukes of Richmond
Leeds
Dorser
Marquis of
Rockingham
Huntingdon
Stamford
Winchelsea
Essex
Litchfield
Oxford
Aylesford
Egremont
George Lenox
George Sackville
Wiscount Gage
Rochester
Gloucester
Tefton
Kent
Edmund Marshall
Earl of Moreton
Fawkham
Taylor
Ludlow
Earl of
Earl of Powis, Was Inoculated, At His Lordship’s House In Albmarle Street
Falmouth
John Dyer
Defiance
Mass Frapers Pye
William Pye
St. George’s
Hanover Square
James Blundel
Reading
Berkshire
Molly Holmes
Andrew Holmes
Conduit-Street
Louisa-Anne de Bourbon Conde
Mademoiselle de Charolois
Lewis de Bourbon
Prince of Conde
Louisa-Elizabeth de Bourbon
Lewis XIV
Mr. Wyatt
Plymouth
Dowgate Hill
Capps
Newark
Northamptonshire
Trinity House
London
Edystone Rock
Loncon
Chamberlain of London
Guildhall
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Carlisle
Salisbury
Chester
St. Davids
Ibbetson
St. Albans
Root
Samson Gideon
St. Paul’s
Merchant Taylors Hall
Whitehall