Prowse and locality urge repeal of cyder act in parliament
The letter from Ledbury urges MPs to repeal the cyder act and protect jury trial rights under Magna Charta. A reply from Sir Charles Kynnyate pledges adherence to constituents, urging calm petitioning and tax relief, while news from Gloucester and beyond details excise tensions, harvest hopes, maritime movements, marriages, deaths, and local misdeeds.
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Charles Kimys Iyate
Old England
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Herefordshire
Gloucester
Forest of Dean
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Lancashire
Louisa Anne
Caroline Matilda
Croydon Town Denies Smallpox Outbreak Report
July 20 1753 Croydon inhabitants publish a notice denying a widespread smallpox outbreak. They state the report is false and malicious spread by ill disposed persons to deter visitors and trade. Signatories include churchwardens George Wathfor Thomas Farley and other local officials.
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Comig
Markee
Ford
George Wathfor
Thomas Farley
John Driver
Jotn
Mai
Joseph ‘Harris
George Parsons
Richard Tyrrill
Edward Roberts
Warder Vanderkifte
George Woodyer
Portraits of Athens and a Verona death mystery tale
The piece extracts a polemical letter on Athens just before its fall, accusing youth corruption and public spectacle, and cites a Verona letter about Countess Cornelia Baudi of Cesena. It details moral decay, indulgent feasts, and a bizarre cremation-like death from an oil lamp incident with grisly description.
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London Evening Post
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Cornelia Baudi
Cesena
Romagna
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