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120] ANNUAL REGISTER
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Colsall, in the parish of Amersham, Bucks. This covetous man, in the year of the hard frost, 1739, laid up upwards of an hundred quarters of wheat, which he might then have sold at 19l. a load, but he would take less than 20l. and kept it to his death. It has since been brought out of the granary, but so damaged by vermin and time, that only about seventeen quarters were saleable and sold last week at Uxbridge market, at 11l. 10s. a load. He died worth about 3000l.
At Newington-Butts, in one house, and on one day, Mrs. Elizabeth West, aged 79, and Mrs. Ann West, aged 72, maiden ladies and sisters.
Thomas Store, Esq; aged 96, at Epsom.
John Meggs, Esq; aged 101, at Tamworth, in Staffordshire.
Jean Merot, in the royal hospital of invalids at Paris, in the 108th year of his age.
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AUGUST.
3d. At Kirkstall, near Leeds, a very affecting scene happened. One Armley, with his two sons, one seven, the other about sixteen, viewing some embankments there, the youngest fell into the river; the father jumped in to save him; and the eldest, seeing both in danger, followed to give his assistance, and all three perished together.
The Earl of Harcourt arrived in town from his embassy at the court of France.
Price Poniatowski, nephew to the King of Poland, arrived in London.
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The following is the state of gratuities bestowed by his majesty on the gentlemen of the faculty, who attended the Duke of Gloucester in his late illness in Italy; to Dr. Jebb, 2000l. to Mr. Adair, 1500l. and to Mr. Charlton, household surgeon to his royal highness who has attended him in all his tours to the continent, 200l. and a pension of 100l. per annum.
Extract of a Letter from a gentleman in Lisbon, to a merchant in Corke, July 13.
"On the 3d instant was executed, pursuant to her sentence, Louiza de Jesus, for the murder of thirty-three infants, that were at different times committed to her care by the directors of the foundling-hospital at Combra, for which (as appears by the sentence published) she had no other inducement but 600 reas in money, a covado of baiz, and a cradle, that she received with each of them. She was but twenty-two years of age when executed. Going to execution she was pinched with hot irons, and at the gallows her hands were struck off; she was then strangled, and her body burnt."
His Majesty has been pleased to respite the execution of the two following capital convicts in the Newgate, till further signification of his royal pleasure, viz. Robert Aistrop, for robbing Mr. John Stearne on the highway, in Parklane, Grosvenor-square, of a silver watch; and James Dempfey, who (with John Devine) was convicted of robbing Richard Glover, Esq; on the highway, of a gold watch.
The affair of Mr. Morris, 6th.
who went abroad with his ward, the natural daughter of the
late
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late Lord Baltimore, was taken into consideration by the lord-chancellor; when his lordship was pleased to dismiss him from his wardship, and to order him to stand committed. On the contrary, it is said, that Messrs. Wilkes and Glynn have received letters from Mr. Morris, pressing them to call upon the ministry, to remonstrate against his imprisonment at Lisle, as an infringement of the law of nations.
8th. Sir Joseph Yorke set out to re-assume the function of his embassy in Holland. He was lately presented with the freedom of the city of Dublin in a gold box, when in Ireland to review his regiment.
Four persons were tried at York assizes, for smothering a boy, that had been bitten by a mad dog, and was raving mad himself, between blankets. They are said to have been acquitted for want of evidence.
The following extraordinary account is said to be true: On the 2d of July last, the wife of John Charlsworth, who keeps the crosskeys-inn at Balsover in Derbyshire, was safely delivered of three children. The good woman continued in tolerable health ten days, when she was delivered of a fourth child; and she was on the 22d of July seized in labour for the third time, and brought two more children into the world. These six children, though very small, were perfectly well formed: four are dead, but a boy and girl, with the mother, are likely to live.
A most remarkable cause came on to be tried at the assizes for the county of Norfolk, where a clergyman of Cambridge was plaintiff, and his uncle defendant. It ap-
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peared upon the trial, that the plaintiff's father, from a variety of distressful circumstances, had been reduced to the melancholy situation of wanting bread; he had been an hostler at an inn in London, had married the maid, and had been reduced to beggary; that. while he was strolling about as a vagabond, his father died, and his elder brother took possession of the estate; but it being held in gavel kind, the plaintiff brought his action for the recovery of his father's right of inheritance, and obtained a verdict.
Eleven of the hearts of 11th.
steel, who were indicted in the county of Down, and transmitted to Dublin for trial, pursuant to a late Act of parliament for that purpose, were brought to the bar, by virtue of a commission for holding a special gaol-delivery. The court sat three days, the two first of which were taken up in disputes concerning the legality of the commission under which they sat; on the third, a great number of witnesses were examined on behalf of the crown, and, after a long and excellent charge given to the jury, the prisoners were all brought in not guilty.
Late last night a farther respite, during his majesty's pleasure, came to Newgate for Capt Jones, who was to have been executed this day for a detestable crime; and it is said an express is dispatched to York, requesting the presence of Judge Willes, who tried him, in town.
The foundation-stone of 17th.
the new bridge over the Wear, belonging to the dean and chapter of Durham, was laid. The ancient and honourable fraternity
of