Terrible fate of Jane Prest penitent for perturbation
Carlisle Journal reports on Jane Prest, confined in Carlisle gaol for alleged contempt of court linked to a Workington parish pew dispute. Her sister Mary used the pew. a bishop warned no disturbance. The case spans property rights, church law, and alleged false imprisonment with distress on Jane and their dressmaking business.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jane Prest
Workington
Zan
Mary Prest
Ae Scales
J. Harrison
Whiteon
Miss Prest
Whitehaven
Jane
Carlise
Carlisle
Carnical
Newake
Cambridge
Thomas Bridge
Westley
Wilkin
John Calthrop
Newmarket All Saints
Nid
Robert Webb
Haywood
James Lurker
Joan Catravor
Penn
James Baker
Suffolk
Webb
Viera
England
Tom
Willesden Church-Yard
Middlesex
H.j.knapp
Endow Union
Headle
Sexton
Tur
Gedney
Archbishop of Canterbury
Escott
London
Wesleyan Ly
Lincoln Mercury
Tar Vican
Gepney
Stamford Afercury
Stamford Mercury
Lincoln Gazette
HURCH
Llanbadarnvawr
Car Btshire
Aberystwyth
Pinsimmon
Severag
John Hughes
Bruce Chidheswell
Anne
Pannister
Merthyr
Oliver Cromwell in Three Volumes An Historic Novel
Review notes the editor Horace Smith defends the author’s political views and praises Cromwell’s portrayal, vivid battle scenes, and domestic pathos. It highlights two companion pictures of Charles I in the House of Commons and Cromwell’s rising power, concluding with the dissolution of the Long Parliament and Cromwell's rise to de facto kingly authority.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oliver Cromwell
Horace Smith
London
Colburn
Cromwell
Waverly
Charles
House OF Commons
Ardenne
Oliver
Edgar
Charles Stuart
Lenthall
England
Mr. Speaker
Whitehall
Harrison
Abraham
Isaac
Jacob
Harry Vane
Vane
Challoner
Henry Marten
Peter Wentworth
Algernon Sydney
Allen
Lord Cromwell
Europe
Sir C Lemon offers site and funds for Truro mining college
Sir C Lemon proposes a site at Truro for a mining college with a £500 building fund levy on minerals for twelve years and a death bequest of £10,000 or £20,000 in trust for professorship endowment. The Privy Council education committee and Duchy of Lancaster council approve. the Queen sanctions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. Lemon
Truro
Privy Council
Council
Duchy of Lancaster
India
Hon. East India Company
British Navy Letters From Beyrout August 1840
A letter laments Mehemet Ali’s siege of Beyrout and the Egyptian army while British ships Castor and Gorgon watch from the windward. Officers praise Commodore Napier's stance, urge more crew to match gun power, and call for fair manning to meet emergencies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beyrout
Syria
Commodore Napier
Genges
Thunderer
Edinburgh
Castor
Mehemet Ali
Alexandria
Gorgon
Mehemet
Dispatches from Bombay to Liverpool and Cardigan court martial
The letter relays a Bombay note on Canton operations after the Bogue forts and a planned razing of Canton. It reports two court martials in India with Lieut. C Mann and Bathurst, details their sentences, and notes the East Indian Telegraph. The piece also covers Paris and Madrid news, a death by suicide of Captain Ravencroft, Hertfordshire Agricultural show, Mendelssohn festival in Birmingham, Cardigan versus Reynolds court martial setup, and related correspondence and opinion on the proceedings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cuina
Bombay
Liverpool
Bogue
Bocca Tigris
Whampoa
Canton
Couris-Mantal III Inpia
Lieut. C. Mann
N.I
Pannagur
Jubbulpore
Serroop
C. Mann
Army’ In
Bathurst
11Th
Ahmednuggur
Skeleton
East Indian Telegraph
Paris
Extraordinary Express
France
Toulon
Lalande
Levant
Marseilles
Beyrout
Napier
Egypt
Espartero
Madrid
West Indiamiyx
Ravencroft
Melville
West Indiaman
Cannon-street-road
St. George’s
Hertfordshire Agricultural Associaiion
Hertfordshire Agricultural Association
Hertford
Shire-hall
Earl Cowper
Lord Grimston
M.P
Minto Farquhar
Bart
G. Thornton
S. Thornton
C. Phillips
G. D. Bosanquet
R. Deering
Lewis
Esqrs
Bremincuim
New Street
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
Miss Bruce
Braham
Mendelssohn
Birmingham
R.A. Reynolds
I cm
Captain Reynolds
Lith
Hussars
Richard Anthony Reynolds
Lord Cardigan
John Williams Reynolds
Mr. Harvey
Harvey Tuckett
John William Reynolds
Harvey
Lth
Earl of Cardigan
Tuckett
Brunton
13Th Light Dragoons
Broadhead
Coldstream Guards
Sir John Burgoyne
Grenadier Guards
Berkeley Drummond
Scots’ Fusileer Guards
Cockburn
60Th Rifles
Simmonds
91St Regt
Holcombe
Royal Artillery
Doherty
13Th Dragoons
Spottiswood
St. Lancers
H. Pitt
Royal Horse Guards
Pipon
Prince Albert's Hussars
R. A. Reynolds
Brighton
Bricuron
Major Jenkins
Brent
Canterbury
Forrest
London
RicHand
Anthony Brynops
Brunswick-square
Richard
Anthony Reynolds
Brienton
Brighton Barracks
Reynolds
Tam
Ricward Anthony Reyxyotps
The
Globe
Portsmouth
Dover
Chatham
Woolwich
Hounslow
Blues
Roughistridge
Household Brigade
Guards
11Th Hussars
Lord Melbourne
Prince Albert
J. W. Reynolds
Bonaparte
Wellington
Assaye
Napoleon
Lewes
India
Massenz
Arthur Wellesley
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Charles Mackey
Bentley
Green Bay Tree
Green Bay
Parnasse Des Dames
John
Army
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