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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
May 28, 1741
Page
1
A Navan fire reports 21 houses burnt after a thatched house cellar blaze caused by a servant maid lighting a candle near tow. In Catherlough a young traveler at Baltin Glass was refused a bed, pursued by villains, killed with a hatchet, robbed, and his body later eaten by vermin in several parts.
London reports on Hereford bribe satire, Parliament seats for Exeter, East India Company appointments, Barbadoes famine misery, Hanover rejoicings, and naval provisioning. Reflections on Admiral Vernon, Garthagena effects in France, regiments preparing for foreign service, and local tragedies from Dublin to Hounslow Heath.
In Perth on May 21 the election for the Shire saw Right Hon. Lord John Murray unanimously chosen as Knight of the Shire, succeeding the last representative.
John Quynn was committed to Maidstone Gaol on an oath charging him with stopping Robert Higgs on the Southend road near Lewisham and robbing him of a Guinea and a half in gold and several pieces of silver. A murder was reported at Gunston near Wingham, where a man killed Mr Read after an early morning visit. the thief fled with about 25 shillings and two gold rings threatening the farmer’s family.
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