Flood damages across Scotland report bridge and dam losses
Edinburgh reports widespread flood destruction from Mill-Dams Bridges and park walls with the Tweed at Melrose broken down. Dalkieth and Cramond dam dykes ruined. Almond Esk waters lift cattle and horses drown. Glasgow town sections flooded. Royal ship Wager sustains only an anchor and cable loss plus four guns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scotland
Edinburgh
Tweed
Melrose
Cramond
Duke of Buccleugh
Dalkieth
Almond
Esk
Muffelburgh
Glasgow
Kry
Murray Firth
Address to the King and public reports from London
London reports detail many gentlemen and city bodies presenting addresses to the King and Queen Dowager, with clergy and dissenters joining in processions and kissing the King’s hand. The Prince of Portugal and York representatives are noted, along with theater plans and naval transport movements. A Dutch letter claims Prussia's victory over Austria and lists captured cannon and prisoners. Prizes from a lottery and a stray horse bean found in Exton are also mentioned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
House of Commons
Burgesses
Westminster
Corporation For Relief of
Canterbury
City of
York
Princess Dowager of Wales
Leicester House
Drury-lane Theatre
Richard II
Earl of
Prussia
Marshal Daun
Daun
Elbe
Torgan
Dresden
Leiter
Count Daun
Q Donnell
Felicity
Hansell
Elizabeth
Jane
Butcher
Swan
Lindsey
Providence
Clinton
Southampton
Joseph
Mary
Atkinson
Shields
Guernsey
Dunkirk
Fool
Daniel Armstrong
Exton
Rutlandshire
Plague and Death Notices from Autumn Reports 1760
The column reports wages for Navy pay offices, clerical appointments to church livings, and various deaths and trials in London and surrounding towns. It notes a plague update from Aleppo, several obituaries, an inquest verdict of accidental death, a wind casualty at Story's Gate, and a citizen letter protesting dog cruelty and anti dog tax debates in London.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Langford
Covent-Gareen
John Freeman
Denford
Northampton
Denford Church
Jatte Jrs
Wapping-Street
William Warren
Cinnamon Street
Sprucer
Gorge Atwood
Alave
St. Mary Fall
Oxford
Henry Ew
Deiorane
Alaverton
North Perrot
Somestet
Bath and Weis
S.al
George Leach
Harlington
Chetter
Aleppo
Anoult
Damascus
Burt
van Kerchem
Holland
Walthamstow
Robert Scot
Fry
Allyne Ward
Wich
John Carter
Shoreditch Church
Kersington
Broughton
Greenwich
Black Lion
Story’s Gate
St. James’s Park
London
Also Mentioned on This Page
Mr Woopcock
Boatbridge
Cambridge
Dace
Yant
Jennison Shafto
Aateere
Epsom
Surrey
Qavirane
Merlin
Blank
Heber
Kensington Turnpike
Earl of Mountrath
Piccadilly
John Young
John Swift
Ole-Screer
Onan
Chewres
Buks
Watford
Rickmansworth
Chetham
Amersham
Chenies
Chefham Bois Place House
Fata
Bucks
Chefham
Cheihan Bois
Gentleman’s
Perpureus
D. Browne
Temple Bar
G. Keith
Gracechurchy Street
W. Johnson
Judpare Street
J. Richardson
Pat
Shis Liay
Norges
P. Doddridge
D.D. P.jaced
H. Payne
W. Cropley
A. Dry-lew
Pater-nolter
Country News
Laft
Scampston
Elizabeth Hodgson
Catharine Peirie
William Peirie
Hutton Benville
Morgan Vane
John Woodyear
Crookhill
Bilby
Nottinghamshire
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