Fragmented colonial notices and trials feature in aged dispatches
A long OCR fragment contains legal notices, trials, and assorted items from Cork to London. It recounts civil actions and oaths, ship captures near Whitehaven, church conversions in New York, board appointments at Royal Exchange, a kitchen anecdote, prolific animal birth, convictions at the Old Bailey for burglary, a fatal assault case, and a death notice, all reflecting a mosaic of 18th century public life and commerce.
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Ares
den Peale
Beckett
Annes
Ibe
Tolthe Firth
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Aubyns Bart
Elizabeth'St
Aubyn
Guandian
Richard Harris
William Scurr
John Barnes
Pitas Michell
Oliver Becket
Thomas Burke
Robert Bakerj
James Farrer
James
Burne
Aaron’ Lara
Anthony
Bilk
Sir John
St. Aubur
Plainis
Thomas Stokie
Joseph
Nott
Daniel
Giles
William
Davis
George Grant
Corke
New York
Bristol
New-York
Whitehaven
Éid
Royal“Exchange Assurance Company
James Hentkett
Ef. Goveror
Betton Long
James Tierney
Big
Lewis Agafiz
John ‘William Axlderson
Francis Baris
Merahee Mater
John Bell
John’ Peter Biaquiere
Thomas Boddington
Wiliam ‘Bofanquet
Stratford Canning
John Henry Canenove
William’Devifme
Thomas Foniefead
Edward Forster
Lestie Grove
Henry Peter Kihf
Richard ‘Lée
Charles. Lindegren
John Daniel -Ludddon
Smasher
John"Tong
Beverley
Conwidtel
Old Bailey
David Guess
Elizabeth Pollard
Hoxton
Linsteed Reeves
John Whitaker
Edward Lynch
Sims
Widegate-alley
Bithopsg
Newgate
Sweetman
John Sherwood
Holyland
Wood
Margaret Scott
Trial of Printers Libel At Tilted King’s Bench
Fragmentary transcript recalls Lord Mansfield and Attorney General arguing over the right to reply in a libel case involving William Woodfall and John Horne. Witnesses discuss publication of advertisements from June 7 1776 and the fairness of juries, with defendants asserting abuses of procedure and urging justice amid political pressure.
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Ballér
Lexington
Christ
Gal
Hophi
Laig
Lord Mansfield
Horne
James the
Fforne
Guildford
Mr. Horne
Mansfeld
Wilson
King’s Arms Tavern
John Horne
Henry Sampson.Woodfall
House of Commons
Thomas Mills
Lord Bute
Lord Mansfeld
William Woodfall
London Packet
Morning Chronicle
Mr. Florne
Gertlamch
Tam
London
America
Pillingsgate
Middlesex
Court of King’s Bench
Amaar
Sam
Wilkes
Woodfall
Eal
Pacardiam
Nana Ossda
Crown Office
Ludgate-hill
Sainsbury
de Grey
King’s Bench
Mannet
Dunning
Francis Bacon
Itbels
Brittaly
Alluide