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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
May 11, 1765
Page
3
May 1 report from Norwich states Jota Fowle auditor of the Excise wed Miss Deye of Eye in Suffolk last Tuesday. The ceremony was noted in local social circles with vows exchanged in a quiet ceremony.
The article describes a Wimbledon Common review by General Elfiow of the Earl of Waldegrave’s regiment of dragoons and others with Royal attendance. It notes regiments ordered to Lincoln, a Shaftesbury outing, arrivals from Lisbon, and ships safe at Bombay, plus local church and parish appointments. It also covers market grain prices, a runaway ox injuring a boy, Smithfield animal drives, a bailiff shooting incident in Lambeth, a highway robbery near Windsor, and jail deliveries from Bow Street.
Letters from Pensacola note Captain Jasper Smith of the Lovely arrived January 6 with cabbage palm orange citron lime date and apricot plants cocoa and coffee trees from Hispaniola for cultivation in that province A boom and chain are being built at St Philips Harbour Minorca to resist strong seas Two French merchant houses failed in Constantinople Counterfeit English guineas of silver plated with gold circulated in Hamburgh Thomas Higgins died at Ely Diocese Deputy Register and Apparitor The gift of Dr Wharton Peck and Ely Register Charles Greer Rutlandshire saw the death of Mr Thongs Lidebury formerly with Messrs Coton and Lambert stock brokers in Cornhill
In London a charity for widows and children of clergy announces pension payments beginning Wednesday at the Corporation Office in Paper Buildings Inner Temple with multiple weekly payments through June and July. Also reported is a burglary at Rowley’s Writing Paper Mill where suspect E J remains at large, with a £20 reward on conviction. A separate auction advert lists farming livestock and implements for sale, including carts, horses, cows, and hay.
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