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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jul 08, 1762
Page
2
A long notice details Ipswich races on July 26 to 28 with purses of Fifty and Hundred Guineas, entries and entrance fees, weights for four and five year olds, and conditions, plus Huntingdon races through July 26 to 30 with numerous matches and purses, age weights, and special conditions. Also includes lodging and property for LET and inquiries to local authorities.
Racing notes from August 11 to 13 on Kerfal Moor near Manchester detail three fifty pound purses for horses mares or geldings with weight scales for ages five to six years and entries through Mr Rigby. A separate sale of William Butler estate in Caernarvonshire and Denbighshire follows with lots including several messuages lands and two lead mines potential rents.
Notice seeks all claimants against the estate of Robert Walker late of Old Bailey London Doctor in Physic. Executors Thomas Nowell and Joseph Wessels at the Pa tentee’s Warehouse invite demands and settlement of debts. A Bath area rector exchange offer is proposed and details to Z. H. via Three Crown Court Southwark.
From Cork to Wicklow and beyond, reports describe executions of Pierce Baily Robert Stackpole and Pierce Moore in Michelstown Glanworth and Fermoy amid White Boys uniforms. A Wicklow incident saw two brogue-makers strike a recruit to death. Levellers or White Boys gathered near Market-Hill staging vandalism and arm thefts Ca shel. A later letter claims large, armed bands appeared in Cashell causing further outrages.
From Taybridge a deserter from the King's Highland volunteers was hunted by a corporal and four men. They arrived at night to arrest him at his father's house. The father and two brothers resisted. a pistol was fired killing Allan M Leod, and the father and two sons fought the soldiers while three women attacked the others. The soldiers escaped after a hard struggle.
An account describes a corporal and soldiers pursuing offenders after a deadly affray. One attacker tried to escape through a thatch roof and was killed. the body fell into a house. The remaining party retreated to Stixling. A detachment was dispatched to apprehend all involved.
Port News reports numerous arrivals and sailing orders from July. Vessels include the Charlotte Stewart from Chester and the Shan ter James Kehea for Bristol, along with ships such as the Nonsuch for Milford and the St George from Emsworth for Dublin. Also noted are His Majesty s sloop Wolfe on a cruise and arrivals at Hull Philadelphia and Mary Firth with multiple named ships and destinations.
In London the Rev MasKelyne, after voyaging to St Helena to observe the Transit of Venus, reports the moon sun distance method for finding longitude with Hadley's quadrant. He claims errors rarely exceed a degree and plans to publish simplified calculations to promote general use. Also details the Tyger's Teneriffe stop en route to Senegal and a Spain England war incident with a clever dispatch of letters and troops to save the ship.
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