Thunderstorm damages house and fatality at Bristol
In Bristol on May 17 a severe thunderstorm struck Gloucester Lane causing a roof breach and a man killed, with injuries to others. A clock was damaged, a floor hole formed, and a sulphurous odor noted. The event followed ambassadorial visits to local colleges and public buildings. Nearby ships and ports reported arrivals and sailings, including vessels to Bristol, Neath, and Portsmouth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Coleges
Earl of ‘Hare
Gloucester-lane
Laewford
Sunday
College Creen
Eady
John Darbin
Countess of Berkeley
Port
Falmouth
Charming Molly
Sanders
Bristol
Alite
Lewis
Neath
Grantham Fock Ib Jones
West Ladies
Peale
Elizabeth
Islorost
Ands Hopewell
Wills
Newreafle
Halifax
Polly
Snook
Liverpoole
Bree Bounty
Hofier
Rhode Island
Southampton
Union
Caevait
Iren Milford
Portsea
Gracie
Dover
Franlin Ia
William and Mary
Franklin
Downs
Medin
Deal
Ar Dever
Everard
Gray
Oporton
Sifielyhead
Hawke
M’crackeny
Baradgeo
Tyrrelll
Vickers
St. Kitt’s
Gibraltar
Neptune
Arbuckle
Lonsomeon
Ireland seeks royal aid on parliament duration bill
The Commons of Ireland in Parliament assembled present an address to the King requesting relief from the bill limiting the duration of Parliament. The Lord Lieutenant will lay the address before his Majesty. Also noted are visits of Marlboroughs, Berkeley connections, a beheading in Paris, shipwrecks, and local notices of marriages, deaths, and civic events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
St. James's
Richmond
House of Companions of Ireland
Commons of Ireland
Eyfil
Great Britain
Duke
Duchess of Marlborough
Patt-Mall
Lang- Hey
Bienheim
Wimbledon-common
Earl of Pembroke
Stieier
Calais
Lally
Pon
Volume copies of Letters by Mothers Advice author
Subscriptions are open for two volumes of letters by the author of the Mother’s Advice to her Daughters. Ready to be delivered to subscribers on the 24th instant at booksellers. Receipts and continued subscription available through publication, with distribution via Bristow, Davis and Almon, Piccadilly. Walter’s, Charing Cross. Richardson & Co, Royal Exchange.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sr. Pan
Rolls Buildings
Feder-Late
W. Bristow’s
Davis’ss and Almon’s
Piccadilly
Walter’s
Charing-Cross
Richardson’s and Co
Royal Extchange
Parliamental Sickness of the Constitution Described
A letter to the printer laments the constitution as a sickly patient. It castigates unchecked corruption, laments inaction, and questions the prospect of reform through a motion for Triennial Parliaments. The writer appeals to patriotism over fashion and pleads for honest action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roe Ee
London
Evetling Pott
Mbpeg
Gilead
Phineas
Carcase butchers and debtors in Fleet Market inquiry
A letter asks if two Fleet Market residents who are both butcher and bailiff could be true carcase butchers. It urges freeing debtors from prison, questions the aims of lawyers and clerks, and critiques the Marriage Act and its effects on births and bastards. It ponders prosecutorial remedies after acquittal and the harm done by prolonged imprisonment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. Lowther
De&or
Da&er
Hint
Sam Tippy
Jake
R. Baldwn
Bookfelier
Parer-noher
Ridley
Booklohwe
Seylamess
Boule
Che Vauasiy
Arid 10 Witt
London
Fleet-market
America
Westminster
Cheating Bakers Reoffend Despite Fines
A letter to the printer argues that once a man forms the habit of cheating, light punishment fails to deter. It cites bakers repeatedly fined for defrauding customers in bread weight, noting they continue the dishonest practice after penalties totaling several pounds.
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London Evening-Post
Meres
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Dicherry
Paris
Phe-Pattiastent
Patis
Middlesex East Indictman
Fletcher
Dog and Dock
St. George’s Fields
St. Thomas’s
Joseph Mawbey
Henry Thraile
Sandwich
Nairneer
James Hoffak
Royal Hospital
Greenwich
Bacon
Joseph Wiliams
Linnén
Lincoln’s Inn
St. Augustine’s Church
Watling-street
Miss Phillips
St. Paul’s Churchyard
George Garnier
Pall-Mall
County of Hants
Miler
Sir John Miller
Chichester
Sussex
Wickham
Hampshire
Ape George
Hanover-square
Roger Mortyn
Miss Wynne
Dr. Wynne
Thomas Kent
Camberwell
Mr. Kent
Vauxhall
Charles Eggleton, Kane
New Bond-street
Garrick-hill
Bow-lane
Richard Wilkinson
William Benton
Whitechapel
Sir John Blois, Bart
Cockfield-hall
Smithfield
Lroup
Madrid
Manilla
Eat ‘Indies
Lord Rochfort
Hague
Parliament of
England
Minerva
Clarke
New-York
Philadelphia
Nancy
Kerr
Hereford Inlet
Spitalfields
Glasgow
Conway
William Barclay
Invergrain
Arrochar
Dumbarton
Scotland
Gain
Lincoln’s-Inn
New-Square
Gules Yarde
Crediton
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