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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Aug 18, 1737
Page
1
The correspondence includes Madrid treaty articles on neutral conduct and protection for Allied ships, plus late Holland mail with Ottoman fleet actions near Arrabat. Reports from London mention executions, court appointments, Princess of Wales festivities, and local trials, with notes on the Bank’s lending, Parliament seats, and public notices about individuals and events.
On August 13 the Infants Affizes in Devon handed death sentences to Thomas Collins for the barbarous murder of Anne Upcott the Fisherwoman, to Richard Brice for beating his wife and killing her by dropping her from a window, to James Gray for robbery, and to another man for forging a note of hand who was reprieved for transportation. Four were transported, one ordered to be whipt and burnt in the hand and imprisoned. News from York remarks on the King’s Hundred Guineas race won by Mr Hutton’s chestnut mare at Black Hambledon and another at Knaresmire won by Pan ton’s bay horse.
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