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Newspaper

London Evening Post

Location

London, Middlesex, United Kingdom

Date

Jan 13, 1739

Page

2

Remarkable Fire Threatens Avon Street Building

An extraordinary blaze broke out in a newly built house on Avon Street in the King's Meads during floods. Sacks of stone lime near a wain scotted partition caught fire as waters rose, threatening to engulf the entire street without timely aid. In Dover at the Pier, Mr. Walker the butcher killed a sheep weighing thirty two and a half pounds. The carcass total weighed fifty pounds with little fat. The sheep was young with two lambs teeth.

Avon-Street King’s Meads Canterbury Walker Dover Grace’s House Burlington Gardens Harris Deceas Peter Wentworth St. Martin’s Mr. Wentworth Charing-Cross Charles Fielding Earl of Denbigh Wingerworth Derbyshire Thomas Windsor Hunloke Robert Throckmorton Coughton Warwickshire Deptford Sun Deptford Yard Board of Admiralty Goodwin Hanover Portsmouth Deptford- Yard Jenkins Sheerness Peircey Britannia John Norris Lisbon Edward Bagthaw Beadle Bishopsgate Gaddesdon Hertfordshire Henshaw Halsey Hertford Strand St. Kitt’s Wiseham Elizabeth London Great Britain West Riding of Yorkshire

Died Reverend Roger Humphreys and related 18th century notices

Obituary notices from London report the death of the Rev. Roger Humphreys Chancellor and Canon of Wells and vicar of Bishops-Lyddyard near Taunton. The page catalogs elections for medical and civic posts, marriages of notable figures, appointments, pregnancies, with multiple references to nobility, MPs, and naval officers.

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