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The New Entertainment of Harlequin Sorcerer, now exhibiting at Covent-Garden Theatre, having engaged the ..

... half built, with real Scaffolding before it, and the Men at Work upon it. Columbine retires behind a Pile of Bricks; Our Hero mounts Ladder: Pantaloon follows; Harlequin removes the Ladder, and prcfcntly down comes the Scaffolding with the Men and all ...

Published: Tue 10 Mar 1752
Newspaper: Manchester Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1079 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Some curious Extracts from M. Voltaire’s Siecle de Louis XIV

... honell Man, but an ill-advifed Monarch: He enaged in Civil War, which made him bill loofc his Throne, and his Lite upon Scaffold, a Revolution almolt without Example. I his Civil War begun in.the Minority Lewis XIV. fora lime prevented England from entering ...

Published: Tue 23 Jun 1752
Newspaper: Manchester Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1684 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Tuesday Morning's Post

... the Inthe Bazar ftrMarket, wastjgreatPlen o£all Manner of Refrcfhments, which was l the great- eit Conlequence. TheNumh|r of Killed Wounded our Side was iuconfidtrafele as to thyirs I can’t give any Account, the Lettel 1 receiv’d from one of the Officers ...

Published: Tuesday 16 July 1754
Newspaper: Manchester Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1591 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Sunday Morning's Post

... Street a Scaffold, which were four Workmen repairing a Houfc, was thrown down, and the Arms or Legs of three of them broken, and the fourth moll terribly bruifed, fo that his Life is dcfpaired of. In the Jews Quarter, tWo poor Men were killed bv the Fall ...

Published: Tuesday 19 October 1756
Newspaper: Manchester Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 857 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

LONDON, April 13

... was not out, the Bridge then continuing in Flames, and moll it already iallcn in. The Watchmen the Cull nn-houfe Ouavs on the Kill Side, and the Watch at the Srccl-Vard tiic. Welt Si de, many other®, about Eleven oblervcd many Lights under the Bridge, winch ...

Published: Tuesday 18 April 1758
Newspaper: Manchester Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1350 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

LONDON, May 15

... hear that a Duel has been lately fought between a Peer and Commoner nearly allied to a great Family ; one them, it laid, is killed. According to Letters from Naples, a Marriage is talked of between Don Philip. Duke of Parma, and the Princcfs of Beyra, ...

Published: Tuesday 20 May 1760
Newspaper: Manchester Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1565 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Tuesday Morning's Post

... and the H ufis of fevcral prin- People; whom, together with fevtral Priclls, they carried off with them into Spain : They killed fcvrral of the Pea fants of that Neighbourhood in cold Blood We received Advice, at the fame Time, that the had left their ...

Published: Tuesday 10 August 1762
Newspaper: Manchester Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2027 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

LONDON Jan. 17

... the Ruins falling on a Man, two Appren. liccs, and a Child, who were in Bed, they ware very much hurt, and would have been killed, had it not been for (he lltength of the Rafters, which arc almoll revv. A Stack of Chimneys at Mr. Harding’s, the Ship Tavern ...

Published: Tuesday 24 January 1764
Newspaper: Manchester Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2023 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

LONDON, Aug, 4

... Morning by Flallt of Lightning, Burnt to the Ground : A Man who was work in the Barn, f.rid the Lightning druck through a Scaffold-hole in the End-wall, and let Fire to fomc Straw which blazed out rapid'y that they had not | Time two Waggons loaded with ...

Published: Tuesday 09 August 1768
Newspaper: Manchester Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2633 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Monday's and Tuesday's Posts

... lb.Mild beheaded, quar'ttcd. and (aliened a Yq’hecl. Thefc Scrucnccs werr rxrcnrttl the aSth April, in the ?!■ in > upon a Scaffold ercefltel tor the Puipofe. in 1 1 en- - ft .f open Place without the City, the Gate. Laft Night about eleven o’clock dreadful ...

Published: Tuesday 12 May 1772
Newspaper: Manchester Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1882 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Monday's and Tuesday's Posts

... of the killed and wounded in the above Battle : Killed. Colonels, Charles Lewes, John Field : Captains, John Murray, R M’Clcnachcn, Samuel Wilfon, James Ward; Lieutenant, Hugh Allen; F.nfigus, Cmdiff, Bracken; forty four Privates; Total killed Wounded ...

Published: Tuesday 10 January 1775
Newspaper: Manchester Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1970 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Monday's and Tuesday's Posts

... osvn and another Cart, and killed the Spot Same Day Thomat Smith, Rufhulme was leatally killed, he allifiing take down the Gable Wall Barn, which unfortunately fell upon him. Thurfday Solomon Pickflone, WhittfieM, Weaver, killed by Lightning, in Apartment ...

Published: Tuesday 01 August 1775
Newspaper: Manchester Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2304 | Page: 4 | Tags: none