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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Oct 08, 1763
Page
3
Northamphcs four residents Eli zabeth Clarke, Anne Clarke and two youths, about 13 and 14, were committed to the county gaol by John Harvey Thurnby Esq for poisoning Richard Crass, a labourer, by adding arsenic to his milk porridge which caused his death.
Port news records arrivals at Falmouth Weymouth Southampton and Deal with ships such as Turnpenny Keppel Jolly Batchelor Mary Elizabeth Lovely Mary St Bernardo Cruizer and others bound for London Naples Cadiz Bilbao Yar mouth Barbadoes Antigua and Guernsey. Wind is brisk WSW with naval movements ongoing.
London dispatches describe ships arriving at St Helens Spithead and Falmouth with troop movements and naval news. Advices note Keppel remaining abroad into March, and May home for Indies forces. A mail from London reports Baltic trade and vessel losses near Holyhead Plymouth and Harwich. An East India private letter hints at May home. a gasped newsroom notes a magistrate election in Edinburgh and a Whitechapel marriage.
Markable in this lady is that this gentleman is the third husband she has had within these two years. On Wednesday fe'nnight Mary Lady Burrowes died in Dublin. By her death a jointure falls to her son. Friday night George Wombwell died in Crutche d Friars. Saturday James Henry, formerly an Exchange Broker, died. Sunday Cope, a wealthy Carcase Butcher, died. Enfield lady of Lord Mayor elect died. Mrs Marshall of Beehive public-house died. Mr Serjeant, keeper of Bull's Head, died. John Parrot stabbed his brother. he lies dangerously ill. An officer riding a wolf on Camberwell Green was thrown from his horse and injured. The house of Mr George Schill was broken into. twenty hats stolen. John Piggott was brought to Surrey gaol for willful murder of Eleanor Piggott. George Anderson alias John son, a noted house-breaker, re-examined. bound over to prosecute for breaking five houses.
General Post Office October 1 1753 announces expanded mail routes from Newcastle to Edinburgh Carlisle to Annan and Dean Aberdeen to Glasgow and intermediate towns. New mails depart Edinburgh Mondays and Fridays with arrival shifts, and Edinburgh to England mails run Tuesdays and Fridays. Unauthorized private collection of letters condemned with penalties of five pounds per letter and one hundred pounds per week. By command of the Postmaster General Anthony Todd Secretary.
A letter from A Souru-Britan denounces the proposed duty on cyder and perry, warning that continued tax will ruin orchards and provoke widespread discontent. The writer laments excessive penalties for unripe apples, questions Magna Charta redress, and criticizes government overreach as tyranny.
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