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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
May 08, 1739
Page
1
From London letters the Conferences with Spain may delay as Madrid insists on Sea Company payment and Georgia surrender. Royal orders appoint Saltonsall heirs, Walpole appointments, ship fittings, and notable deaths. News notes include a murder report, fleet officers, and a fatal cart accident alongside a Whitechapel fire.
In Edinburgh on May 3, Sir James Elphinstone of Logic Bare and Mr. George Andrews, a Royal Bank teller, have died. The Hon Magistrates and Council resolve unanimously to offer James Graham of Airth, Advocate, the position of City Assessor in replacement of the deceased.
In Chester on May 7th the Affizes sentenced two men to death by execution for murder and burglary with felony while three were to be transported, one branded, one whipped, and Catherine Smith fined and imprisoned for defrauding a woman by fortune telling. several other local notes include ship incidents near Newcastle and Whitby with injuries reported.
London reports that his Majesty the Duke and the Princesses will move from St James's to Kensington for the remainder of the summer season. This morning at one o'clock Dr Hollings Ses M D physician in ordinary to the king and Royal Society fellow died at his Pall Mall house.
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