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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jul 16, 1752
Page
1
From Petersbourg reports that M Gross, in Dresden to fill Count Keiteling’s post, is instructed to observe Polish Diet events. The Empress may press the Courland election and Russia plans 30000 troops to enforce payments, threatening the duchy’s crown.
Dublin reports the marriage of John Coolley to the widow Hfpewaffe, sister to Counsellor Tighe, and Lieutenant William Tighe of the Dragoons wed Miss Dickson with a fortune of 4000. The Taylors Corporation grants Sir Peter Warren the City’s freedom with ornate presentation. A ferry boat on Lough-twilly sinks, five saved. Heavy rains near Trim flood the Boyne river area, washing away six acres of corn and meadow and uprooting onions.
York July 14 report notes the wedding of Anderson Saunders Esquire of Newton Saunders Ireland to Miss Wallbank of Kirkbridge in the county, praised as a beautiful young lady with a handsome fortune. Canterbury July 15 confirms an Act to establish a Court of Request for small debts with first court held and weekly meetings anticipated. Mary Elley killed. Henry Dixon Coroner reports a black man named Cafar charged in Maidstone Gaol.
A meeting of landholders near Richmond New Park in Surrey discussed restoring access roads and ladders, and delivering a memorial to Princess Amelia. The secretary refused the memorial at the lodge, prompting debate on pursuing legal action or alternative delivery. A gentleman attempted delivery but failed, returning the memorial.
The Gentlemen involved, unable to present their memorial privately to her Royal Highness, resolve to pursue their rights through due legal process. They print the memorial to justify themselves and reveal how they intended to present their grievances to her Royal Highness, beginning with the Memorial of the.
A lengthy petition from Surrey parish inhabitants petitions King to restore ancient rights of free passage, use of gravel and watercourses, and access doors into a park adjoining Richmond New Park. It asserts historic roads, stiles, and parish boundaries, plus liberty for the poor to cut furze and gather fuel, with claimed uninterrupted possession under prior earls and pleas for immediate restoration of these rights.
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