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Newspaper

London Evening Post

Location

London, Middlesex, United Kingdom

Date

Jun 23, 1764

Page

3

Weather, fires, and flood damage across Norfolk area

Reports from Norfolk and nearby counties detail destructive storms on June 23 and 25. Bolts of lightning struck barns and a rectory, killing livestock and damaging homes and corn supplies. Hailstones up to several inches caused widespread destruction. in Crondall and Hampshire heavy rain overflowed rivers. fires started by lightning damaged buildings in Stoke-Goldington.

Garwood Croftwick Thurston Foncerr Hart Worhead North Waltham Reading Mearing Crease Whitley Knight Crondall Hampshire Northampton Moulton Stoke-Goldington

Port News Dated Arrivals and British Court Updates

Port News reports arrivals at Penzance Falmouth Deal and Gravesend from Wales Hamburgh and Norway with multiple vessels listed. London life guards reviewed in Hyde Park, royal family travels to Richmond, Irish Parliament prorogued, and assorted legal municipal notices. Also mentions deaths marriages and a fatal boat accident near Gravesend with casualties and rescues.

Penzance John Randal Molly Bardett William Melhurst Salisbury Burgess Wales Recovery Freety Hamburgh Union Billing Exon Maria Guise Sc. Marrin’s Duke of Cornwall Purchase London Falmouth Prosperous Hardin Walker Tenby George Mills Industry Skinner Plymouth Goodwill Moorey Portsmouth Joseph Nankovie Polly Parker Garmarrhen Deal Fune Elizabeth Brown Brooks Lisbon Prince of Piedhorn Bates Leghorn Jamaica Packer Bellamy Philadelphia Ann Wye Oporto Earl of Guildford Martin

Unclear fragment describes lightning strike and fire disaster

Fragmentary account recounts a lightning event hitting a house killing one person, wounding a second and severely bruising a third, with the house set ablaze. Surrounding area near Saffron Walden reportedly ablaze with multiple hovels and a globe sighted in a nearby blaze, inhabitants fleeing.

Saffron Walden

Missing Jewels Reward Notice at London Auction

YOLEN on 7 uefuay the roth Inttant from a Perignnac dle Pair ap Savciane 10% A Box contained show1ing Gots. Four salver Waschis one Testoubel £0 fa med Mori one silvery recalnant Direc none Cearcesos several Rings x Hoop Rings tx irog Golpiath Hoos price Pair of Stone Sioe-Fuckles seven Pair of Alice Ditto three Starx Ditto three Golf Share Ditto four Ditto fee in Silver four Pair of Gar net Mar-Rings several Pair of Gold Wires a Bunch of deals a urven Dopskin Renee Cafe fer in Silver several Trinkers and Hair lockers and several other Sorts of Jewellers. Whoever will bring the above Effects to Mr Jonas Phillips in Squark's Court Longon or to Mr Levy Wolf ac Dorts moud Common shall have five Guineas Reward. If offered to be pawn'd or sold, pray stop them and you shall have the same Reward.

Yolen Uefuay Perignnac Ap Savciane Mori Cearcesos Jonas Phillips Levy Wolf Dortsmoud

Auction notices for diverse English estates and holdings

A long OCR excerpt advertises multiple property sales in Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Surrey and London. Listings include freehold, copyhold and leasehold estates with timber, fields, woodlands and manors. Auctions are set at Guiltnall Doncoay and Covent Garden, with varied structures and furnishings described.

Postscript from a London neighbor and a royal pretender

A rambly postscript by Francis Wronghead laments corn disputes and parish costs while mocking court politics. He visits Broad Street and Old Jewry, notes Pay Office barriers, beef prices, and eats beef steak at King James the First’s Head Inn. He signs off as a humble servant.

Richard Yorkshire Mount Faust Ciy Lovern Gine Jaimes Farron Francis Wronghead

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