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Newspaper

London Evening Post

Location

London, Middlesex, United Kingdom

Date

Feb 21, 1740

Page

2

Hog Carcass Weighed 4201 Pounds at Local Farm Auction

A fragment reports the total weight of a hog at 4201 pounds with 43 pounds of inward fat and the head measured 28 pounds after being removed near the neck. The terse note implies a historical record of livestock weights from a farm sale or auction.

London Morning Deaths In High Society Par Matches

The London Morning reports a rash of aristocratic deaths and marriages. Lady Venables Vernon of Park Place died of smallpox leaving issue. Lady Bickley of Norfolk died, her estate to her husband Sir Francis Bickley. Lady Baton Parker, widow of a Barons of the Exchequer, died leaving several children. Other notices record elections and marriages, including John Lloyd’s wedding at Park and Henry Bromley’s clerkship appointment.

London Park Place St. James’s Gyrone Venables Vernon Litchfield Thamas Lord Effingham Yonge William Yonge Gloucesterstreet Bickley Francis Bickley Bart Norfolk Francis Jacob Garrard Ely Thomas Garrard Langford Hall Baton Parker Court of Exchequer Lincoln’s-Inn-Fields Whithall Pipe Aidware Staffordshire Thomas Whichcote Lincoln Thomas Lumley Saunderson Scarborough Samuel Heathcote Boralstone Devonshire Francis Henry Drake Deceas Henry Bromley Cambridge Alderman York of Thomas Luck Lord North Guyrldford Grosvenor Square Henry Powis Thomas Powis Berwick Shrewsbury Charles Baldwyn Middle Temple Miss Langley Stone Saffordshire John Lloyd Albion Faz Accomplitaments Mesit Gooo Fk Brest Rochelle Appleby Westmoreland Robert Braithwait Warcupp Hall Moregate Totteridge Peter Meyer Monument William Fellows Piscatiqua New- England Tursday Gravel Lane Southwark John Bong

Gravesend obituary and London notices from the era

From Gravesend they report Captain Robinson master of a Customhouse smack is dead and several petitioners seek customs command. Also notices of deaths of Mrs Brown at Gravesend and Mrs Pickering at Hatton Garden, plus reports from Dublin of John Guittarre’s discharge. Charities in Cambridge and voyage notes from Weymouth and Dover, a street assault in Clare Market, and stock prices and a naval encounter near Galicia.

Gravesend Robinson Thoro Customs Brown County of Kent Pickering Globe Tavern Hatton Garden Dublin John Guittarre Marshalsea Westminster Cambridge Snap Provo King’s College Nat St. John’s College Bentley St. Michael St. Mary the Great John Tivitoe Neptume Weymouth Dover Mauper Stubbington Leghorn Huddy Thomas Clements Buescher Clare Market William Warner Newgate Col. de Veil Mr. Warnes Cadiz Ferrol Alhallows Brest

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