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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Aug 13, 1737
Page
1
The London Evening Post reports yesterday arrived the mail from France and another from Holland, noting standard dispatch and contents awaited by merchants and officials.
Letters from Petersbourg Vienna and Paris report near Oczakow siege moves and wounded officers. Seckendorff rests troops at Nisfa then may march toward Widdin to siege it. Raunach defeated by Turks in Croatia. Militia fled. Bosnia detachment stormed a fort near Bannalucka. Corsican unrest grows with Genoa menacing reforms and clerical hesitations over civil power in church matters.
Ipswich reports two men condemned at the Affizes for house breaking and brandy theft, with one ordered for transportation. Norwich notes lime-burners killed by earth at a kiln, plus county sentences for horse stealing and smuggling. Also covers marriages, appointments, school elections, and local accidents amid a busy regional record.
In Edinburgh on Aug 8 the Magistrates published a new Act of Council to ensure more effective riot control. Inhabitants holding public offices must report to designated locations at the first sign of uproar to receive directions. Copies are to be issued to trained bands officers and constables. Word spread that many parishes did not hold sermons, the day set for reading the Act of Parliament for prosecuting murderers.
London reports announce Friday’s Governors of the Charter-House meeting to elect a Master in place of the late Dr. King. The Lord High Chancellor has presented Rev. Mr. Acton to Shalden rectory and Rev. Mr. Clark to the Honor Haymor vicarage, with presentations passing the Great Seal.
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