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London Evening Post

Location

London, Middlesex, United Kingdom

Date

Apr 23, 1757

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Stewards Report of 1756 Feast for the Clergy in London

The stewards headed by the Right Rev Bishop of Peterborough and several D D clergy report the 9891 pounds 13 shillings 3 pence raised at rehearsals and feast at St Pauls and Merchant Taylor Hall was distributed to a long list of tradespeople and tradeswomen across England and Wales for services from mantua makers to gown makers milliners and a grocer noting payments to Sarah Dorling Frances Williams Mary Lea Catherina Lea and many others with sums varied and deliveries spanning London Worcester Shrewsbury Exeter and Chester among others.

Sarah Dorling Frances Williams Bishopsgate Street London Mary Lea S4ary Lea Hallsowen Salop Om Catherina Lea Margaret Lea Stowerbridge Worcestershire Ann Billington Sarah Hunt Exeter A Joseph Potts John Bracegirdle Manchester Jesebh Taylor John Seaborne Hereford William Wright William Wylde Francis Cookson John Barnet Middleham Yorkshire Sadler Hannah Reeve Mary Gibbon Colchester Essex Tom Frances Harton Ann Shuker Shrewsbury Daniel Brocklebanke Joseph White Whitehaven Lucy Chappell Mary Lewis St. Martin’s In the Fields Middlesex Mary Williams John Edwards Llanenghenedle Anglesea Elizabeth Tanner Elizabeth Boyce Oakham Rutland Alice Dalgress Elizabeth Prait Petworth Sussex Mary Wilmot Hannah Moreton Worcester Dorothy Verty Liddle and Makepeace Newcastle Honiton Devonshire Esther Moore Katherine Boulton St. Clement’s Danes Hannah Froome Devon Elizabeth Borchi Elizabeth Heyliger Lincoln’s-Inn-Fields Elizabeth Wheeler Ann Orpin The Strand Mary Ramsey Jane Robin St. Martin’s William Shaw Thomas Shaw Richard Baie William Dawes Isaac Metcalfe Hawes

Regiment movements and European war rumors in April dispatches

Letters from Holland and Petersburgh report fleets fitted at Cronstadt ready to sail, with thirty ships including frigates and bomb vessels. Dispatches from Hamburg, Hanover, and various German states describe Prussian regiments marching, Hessian troops joining, and Duke of Cumberland moving toward Weser. Reports mention French plans to attack East Frizeland Bremien Verden, and a projected trial of the King of Prussia by the Austrian imperial council.

Holland Petersburgh Cronstadt Revel Riga Count Apraxin Courland Hambourg Duke of Cumberland Stade Hanover Weser East Frizeland Bremien Verden Hamelen Wesel Sporcke Brunswick Wolfenbuttle Saxe Gotha Bohemia Egra D’etrees Rhine Maeze Gueldres Empire Prussia

Fragments on Empire Ban and Dublin Freedom Granted

Fragmented notices describe a sovereign summoned by the Elector of Brandenburg being placed under the Empire’s ban, with loss of rights. Vienna negotiates a one million florin loan via Cardinal Cor fini in Rome. Brest reports twelve armed ships joining Foligny's squadron. Dublin’s Common Council to vote the Freedom of the City in favor of William Pitt in gold box.

Prussia Brest St. Malo M. de Foligny Ireland Dublin Common Council of London William Pitt

Freedom of the City presented to Pitt and Legge in Bath

A Bath letter reports Edward Collibee mayor presiding as a motion to present Pitt and Legge with gold boxes, in token of patriot zeal. Citizens meet at the Bear to toast the two men. Exeter market scenes describe price turmoil with mobs, wives, and force threats, yet corn remains plentiful. Norwich reports Charles Parr jailed for aiding murder, and French prisoners escape confinement via window rope, quickly recaptured.

Country News Bath Edward Collibee Allen Pitt Legge Mr. Allen Exeter St. Sidwell’s America Norwich BR. Browne Charles Parr Robert Sillys Jerry Warns

Merit and Political Intrigue in Tudor Times

London narrative recalls Merit delivering state seals to Lord Keeper Bacon and the Treasurer’s Staff to Lord Burleigh while Walsingham receives the Peace. The piece links these acts to tumultuous times, with Intrigue as a possible descendant of Merit, and notes shifts of power among Clarendon Shaftsbury Clifford and Buckingham.

London Merit Bacon Lord Burleigh Walsingham

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Peterborough John Waugh Robert Parker Philip Yonge Thomas Church Erafraus Saunders Samuel Nicolls William Lowther Bart Thomas Foljambe E Q. Shute Adams Thomas Kilner William Sharpe St. Paul’s Merchant-Taylor’s Hall Ners
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