Gigantick boy with six toes and six fingers in Durham
A long item from Oxford notes a nine year old boy named Guthbert Downy from Durham with six toes on each foot and six fingers on one hand, plus unusually large bones and a majestic countenance. Reports from Bristol Reading Salzbury and London cover church appointments, murders, royal entertainments, ship news, and various deaths and crimes with scattered detail.
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Oxford
Bath and Wells
Charles Willes
Willes
Merton College
Wells
Burrows
Ricester
North Afton
Bristol
Funes
Collinson
Free Grammar School
Redcliff
Reading
Sturgis
St. Mary's
Penelope Waller
John Waller
Hurst
Stag
Deptford
Stanton
Jaques
Pont
Devizes
Fisherton
Port News From Falmouth and Plymouth in Late May
Shipping round up with arrivals from London Chester Swanley Poole Glasgow and Curacao Jamaica Virginia and the East Indies. Dutch ships remain at anchor with routes to Amsterdam Zealand and Bengal while English sloops and packets sail for Lisbon and Newfoundland amid strong northeast winds.
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Falmouth
John and Elizabeth
Wynon
London
Endeavour
Smith
Chester
Heyman
East Indies
Parker
Orton
Newfoundland
Success Brown
Lynn
Anniversary of the King’s Birthday Celebrations Begin Day
The morning rang with bells as the king entered his 27th year. Westminster bells and Tower guns marked noon while nobility and foreign ministers paid greetings at St James’s. The evening closed with bonfires lamps and other demonstrations of joy noted in the ode.
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James
Earl of Sandwich
Whitehall
Earl of Halifax
Great George Street
Westminister
the Grange
Hampshire
Baron Nolken
Sweden
Duke
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Privyégarden
Goodwodd
Poland
Czartorinsky
Branicky
Crown
Dyer
Richmond
Jamaica
England
Havannah
Commodore Parker
Plymouth
John Plass
Sast
Ivica
Riga
Ehance
Bay
B. Theunis
Bayonne
Hamburgh
Madeira
Order of the Bath
Lord Clive
East Indies
Earl of Northumberland
Ireland
Edward Simpson
Deceas
Arches
Canterbury
Admiraly
William Spry
L. L. de
Doftors Commons
All America
Lieut
Eance
79Th Regiment
London
S&c
St. James S
Postscript on Liberty and Opposition in Free Nations
A London Evening Post writer argues that power shifts alter views and names for leaders. He asserts persistent parties arise from liberty to examine public affairs, insisting scrutiny keeps Ministers honest and protects the greatest good. The public must censure actions, as a prerogative of a free nation.
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London Evening Post
England
France
Ima
C. Liperw
Debates on Parliament Reform and Ministers Security
A London Evening Post excerpt argues for renewed support of the triennial act to restore parliamentary elections and secure liberties. It contends ministerial accountability through strong laws, not private aims, and suggests five or three seats could constrain ministers and stabilize governance.
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William
England
Ftrar
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