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Stormy Night Elopement and Sheep Toll Amid News of Frauds
Fragmentary London Evening Post report recaps a dramatic elopement thwarted by a lover and a mistress hiding at an inn, before a fierce storm kills sixteen of seventeen sheep at Pantwick. It also notes trials and executions in Hereford and Derby, port arrivals from Lisbon to Jamaica, and courtly visits by royal figures amid a busy news cycle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stannington
Morpech
Pantwick
Hereford
Philip Vaughan
Mr. Ireland
Lincoln
Gloucester
Birmingham
Derby
Anthony Oxley
Stables
Robert Hunsley
Shelley
Bath
Wrington
Somersetshire
William Hobbs
Port News
Falmouth
Smith
Crosfick
Hampden Packer
Braithwaite
Lisbon
Success
Nicols
Streights
Poole
Seahorse
Chinchen
Wareham
Thompson
John
Mary
Dan
London
Endeavour
Smart
Sunderland
Paskton
Reed
Tenby
Cowes
Peggy
Boyter
Oporto
Prince of Wales
Duke of Cumberland
Upper
Grosvenor Street
Duke of Gloucester
Southampton
Horatio Walpole
Arlington-street
Dorset- Soire
Pitt
Liverpool
William Meredith, Bart
Admiralty
Topham Sydney Beauclerk
Great St. Larence
Newfoundland
Pearl
Egmont
New England
St. Peter’s Road
Bay of
Fortune Bay
John Miller
1Qth Regiment of Foot
Hon
Baum
Tig House
Ha- Noque
United Parishes
Magnus the Martyr
Margaret
New Filstreet
Howard
Francis Kelly Maxwell
Moses Porter
Maxwell
Porter
Naidon Farm
Reigatéta Surry
Isaac Batcomb
Thorp
Hoxton Square
Crown
Trump
Hampstead
Gray’s Inn Lane
Dublin
Newgate
Liberty Boys
Cobler
Canada
Berlin
Duke of York
Warsaw
Poland
Hyde Park
Thomas Hales, Bart
Downton
Beaksbourn
Canterbury
Dover
Coventry
Boerhaave
Nzo Cafar
Conutus
Gor
Nutus
Tom InNpo Lens
Guldssmith
Traveller