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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Oct 07, 1740
Page
2
Warnat announces removal to a distant prison to deprive him of his vote in the Towa Council election for the coming year. The council of twelve, led by the Cotmnfel lor, faced each party pursuing a different set of new counsellors after the day appointed for the vote.
Walter Blackett and Nicholas Fenwick receive unanimous approbation from the assembly for their conduct to Parliament and are named as candidates for the next general election alongside Matthew Ridley. The mayor, aldermen and common council grant Capt. Sowle freedom of the corporation with a 50 guinea gold box. a 49 guinea plate for Captain Fielding. 30 guineas for Ensign Hewitt. and 10 guineas for each of three companies, in gratitude for quelling a riot on June 26.
A rambling London letter reports borough politics with money offers influencing voters and a Place-Man bargain. It notes naval, shipping, and colonial dispatches, aldermen pledging service, and officers named at Guildhall. Also covered are deaths, marriages, Oxford and York events, and a murder investigation in London.
In a Barn near Mary-le-Bon a man was killed after his protection of a woman was refused by assailants who dragged him inside and covered the body with straw. The coroner found willful murder by persons unknown. The incident was uncovered by John Edwards and linked to broader local unrest and political grievances, with further maritime notices and letters from Jamaica and Kingston.
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