24 May 1739
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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
May 24, 1739
Page
1
The London Evening-Post reports May dispatches from Stockholm and Vienna detailing growing European tensions, troop movements, and prospects for peace. It also covers royal celebrations for Prince George’s birthday, a martial court martial, appointments, and various local notices including executions and pardons.
Ireland news reports Lord Mountjoy elected Grand Master of the Free Masons for the coming year. In Lurgan-Green diggings near the Strand, a sunken 1692 ship was found with three casks of King William and Queen Mary's halfpence, freshly minted in Ireland, sold as old metal for over 301.
London reports that last week Mr Henry Hardware, a Cannon-street merchant, wed Miss Molly Millington of Manchester. The ceremony united a prominent London trader with a young Manchester lady in a notable union.
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