Memoir and social life scenes from late 17th century London
The piece describes Will's coffee house culture with poets such as Dryden and Radcliffe, debates on Paradise Lost and epic poetry, and the era's fashionable excesses. It moves to a governess's harsh duties and a case of a young woman damaged by marriage pressures, then shifts to a Norwich murder investigation with a prisoner, a seduction tale, a ramrod weapon clue, and updates on Mrs Jermy and Elizabeth Chestney.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
House of Commons
Paris
Lord Foppington
Will's
Covent-garden
Bow-street
Perrault
Boileau
Venice
Stara
John Dryden
Racine
Bossa
John Radcliffe
London
Garraway’s
Amsterdam
Macaulay
England
James II
Horace Walpole
Lord Castlecomer
Norwich
James
Milnestreet
Solomon Savoy
Rush
Bridewell
Stanfield Hall
Norfolk Murders and Rush Suspect Details
No new major facts emerge on the Norfolk murders. Police trace Rush through London. balls from Mr Jermy’s body are metal stamps. A shooting gallery patron resembling Rush sought duelling pistols, then stayed briefly and shot at a merk. On Nov 18 he was in London sleeping at Milne-street, Clapham Square.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norfolk
Rush
London
Jermy
Milne-street
Claxemong-square
The Humble King of Nature's Realm
A poem praising humble virtue over pomp finds majesty in simple nature. It contrasts rich robes with a russet vest, arguing true sovereignty lies in a thankful heart and deeds of beneficence rather than gilded state. The speaker extols a humble ruler whose throne is the natural world and who answers to God. Wendover Bucks
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Julius Cesar
Running Brooks
Wendover
The Day of Small Things by James Russell Lowell
A fragmentary meditation on humble beginnings that sparked a larger movement. The poem honors quiet labor, truth, freedom, and the brave, steadfast individuals who shape history from obscure starts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jams Russel Lowell
H. G. Otis
Rome
Luther
Europe
Earth
Genoa
Lipa
Gleanings from a Victorian miscellany recaps
A long column of brief notes covers diverse topics. It cites Norwich civic leaders, religious controversy, a captain near Lucca preaching against the Pope, a hailstorm that killed 62 crows in Ayrshire, Welsh textile demand, Mr O'Brien’s deaf son at Rugby, Kent marsh lands, and the Serpentine drainage plan. It adds statistics on livestock, overseas emigration, a milk-white jackdaw near Cheddar, Alps tunneling efforts, Melbourne immigrants, Father Mathew temperance, and railway expansion prospects. It closes with satirical items and age trivia for U.S. presidents and a prophetic medical anecdote.
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Norwich
Pakenham
Duke of ‘Wellington
Ant Easphe
Luéea
Ayrshire
John Duncan
Shalloch
Cayton
Ayr
Carmarthen
England
Smith O’brien
College For the
Deaf and Dumb
Rugby
O’brien
Kent
Mney
Commissioners of Woods and Forests
Wales
France
New York
Wisconsin
U.S
Potters Emigration Society
America
Cheddar Cliffs
Somerset
Mans
Alps
Piercin Mont Cenis
Melbourne
William Stewart
Father Mathew
Eleven Fixes: London Weekend Fires and Tides of Loss
On Saturday and Sunday eleven fixes occurred in London including a blaze in Little Portland Street and Regent Street that destroyed property worth thousands of pounds. Two Buckie boats hired by Mr. Macdonald the fish-curer were reported to have brought ashore the week before last, with seven thousand haddocks noted in the tally.
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London
Portland-street
Regent-street
Buckie
Macdonald
Hank
Also Mentioned on This Page
Hants
Leicester
Leicestershire Mercury
Washington
Jackson
John Adams
van Buren
Jefferson
Harrison
Madison
Tyler
Monroe
Veecee Dtt
LL. Polk
John Q. Adams
Baylor
The
Morning Herald
Hall
Wilton
Connecticut
Hertford
Chielin
Cambridge
Massachusetts
New York Journal of Commerce
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