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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
May 14, 1737
Page
1
Readable items from The London Evening Post recount marriages in Wiltshire and Kent, births and deaths including John Mackworth Prade and Lady Afton, and courtly notices. Also notes royal promotions, Admiralty orders, horse racing results, Hogarth’s painting frame, a Clergyman attack, and transportation-related crime incidents.
Yesterday arrived the Maid from Holland Bologna May 7. HE Chevalier's eldest Son arrived from Rome under the name of the Count of Albany. The next day the Cardi nal Legate was thanked by four Senators but received as private gentlemen. He sets out to Lombardy with a large retinue and may go to Paris if he continues.
Ireland reports the marriage of Lord Santry to Miss Thorn ton at Finglass and notes a recent proclamation authorizing copper half-pence and farthings for Ireland. Collectors must accept limited amounts per payment, with excess routed to army or revenue, and costs of coinage charged to royal officials. Large quantities of half-pence have been issued from the Treasury Office.
London report states Lord Augustus Fitz Roy, son of the Duke of Grafton, kissed the King’s hand at St James’s on a leave take. He will sail Thursday for Portsmouth to board the Eltham and proceed to his station at Newfoundland.
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