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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jun 05, 1739
Page
1
A summary of late losses and misfortunes from London and surrounding areas. Gerrard Bottomley, Henry Gale, and others are noted. accidents at Brentford Bridge cause fatalities and injuries. Reports mention court, politics, royal visit, and a brutal murder in Baldwin's Gardens, plus press gangs, ship news, and public notices.
The Paris courier reports royal movement from Paris to Chantilly then Compiegne on June 13 to 17. King, Queen, and Cardinal de Fleury travel, with the court and accompanying officials seen en route. Public celebrations occur at French and Italian play houses and the opera in wake of peace news.
In Edinburgh on May 31, Hugh Sommervill waiter to the Signet died. Gordon, late minister at Gamry, also died recently. He had schemed with Sing Stee on airs and promises, but death thwarted his plans. Prosecution against him and others was ordered posthumously by the Pretiyury. beadle search directed even after death.
In Wiltshire at Wotton-Bafft three men claimed the five guinea reward for capturing the Bee Hive Maker who killed his wife. The captive killer later died from wounds after a knife attack while being transported to a house. A barber restrained him as he tried to escape. The killer confessed. his father, held on suspicion, cannot account for the night’s events.
London report states Lady Savile’s appeal to the Court of Delegates at Serjeants Inn Hall in Chancery Lane reversed the Arches judgment, affirming the appeal in her favor. Also noted is a rumored marriage treaty involving Mr Charles Jones of New College Oxford and Miss Wareham of Yorkshire with an 8000 pounds fortune. The Lord Bishop of Salisbury departed for Tunbridge Wells.
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