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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
May 29, 1762
Page
2
Warick races announce fifty pound purses on the new course. The events will run on Wednesday and Saturday the sixth and ninth of ? March with full particulars to be advertised in due time.
Peterborough race notes describe two July plates with fifty pounds prizes for horses never winning above specified sums, heats over four miles, entry fees at Talbot Inn, penalties by age and weight, certificates required, and a stallion AJAX praised as a top-bred, with no liquor booths without clerk fees.
A meeting is called by the AG at the Crown Inn on Monday next the 7th instant to appoint an efficient number of tolls and fees as required by the Act of Parliament. The notice cites a ship, Salt-Bill, and references sums of £9.08 due.
A Suffolk parish report details John Downing and his family of Wattisham afflicted with leg mortification starting January. The mother Mary and children aged 15, 13, 10, 4, and an infant suffered severe pain and limb decay, with multiple legs amputated or near amputation. By May 1752 officials declare the family poor but viable, seeking public charity to support the widow and children, and apprenticeships for the youths. The letter notes parish costs and proposes aid via three London bankers and public benevolence.
In Dublin on Saturday the Right Hon Robert Nugent and his two daughters, Admiral Pockington, Dean Tucker, Cal. Sr. Leger, and others arrived from England. A Mayo knight died near Ballinrobe last Thursday. Extract from Belle May 22 describes a court dispute over a ball in fives where a hawk carried the ball.
May 20 report from Cork notes Mr. Abraham Shaw appointed Post-Matter Gang fal of thartland Guadaloupe and dependencies with a new commission. Plymouth May 28 lists men of War and merchants from the Straits, Warwick Eartydiaman. Poole May 29 arrivals include Restoration Hunt from Sunderland and multiple ships for London Weymouth Guernsey and Lynn. May 26–30 arrivals feature Fox privateer, Vrouw Johanna Gally from Guernsey to Portsmouth and the West Indies, proferpine fire ship, Nancy Gregg for Falmouth, Frederick Wenters for Pryanond, London Barrowdale for Bristol, Prince of Orange Cheesman for Carolina, Lucretia Rommeck, Thomas and Jane Barlow transports. Sailed Diana on cruise. Arrivals at various ports include Kite's Polly from Newbury, Lady Lucia from Lisburn, Ross from London, Hufsar from London, King Frederick from Zant, Dol phin Perks from Gibraltar.
The letter extracts describe ongoing negotiations and possible alliances among Russia Prussia and Sweden. They note Vienna talks the Czar's possible aims and a wish for Vienna and Prussia to reconcile to pave peace. Additional dispatches report Swedish prisoners freed and public peace announcements pending. There is also detail on Spanish forces advancing toward Portugal and a naval incident near Plymouth with captured goods aboard a Dutch vessel.
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