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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

Ise r y .otk on air 3 or 1 , r it iv... • erdiet for the Plainti ff ,

... oicePlimed ly contrary Winds. ication of Pelt of this Sum to a .r the as the Wino lerved, and do Bufinefs as efteetually Scaffold, for what they think Patriotifm, ra-her than Treafon. which proves the more aVagettable; not only as tee Se rfire * advances ...

Published: Tuesday 30 August 1757
Newspaper: Chester Courant
County: Cheshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 4257 | Page: 3 | 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

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... to a Country Butcher being at Play together. the oldeft Brother told the youngeft he would thew him the Way bow his Father killed Sheep. and immediately feizing him by the Head, thruft a Kaife into his Throat. The Boy tricking, the Mother who was rocking ...

Published: Tuesday 13 May 1760
Newspaper: Chester Courant
County: Cheshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2471 | Page: 1 | 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

M C OURANT. TUESDAY, May 27,

... been done accordingly. •• • The Landau being now advanced to thettfice of Execution. his Lordfhip alighted from it; and the Scaffold, which was covered with black Bays, with the fame•Compofure and Fortitude of Mind he had enjoyed front the fiddle Stick the ...

Published: Tuesday 27 May 1760
Newspaper: Chester Courant
County: Cheshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 4707 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

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... wea is , groes in the Brit Skirmifh bad greatly :ral Gentlemen of the Militia were lance of Come Sailors, they next Day me, killed 25, and took a good many Affair, Col. Spragge, who commands, Eftate with the whole Regd:nee Parties are daily Bout after the ...

Published: Tuesday 02 September 1760
Newspaper: Chester Courant
County: Cheshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 4435 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Vasa in King Henry Vll's is Feet long and :6 'mad e , built Jo► the Atrophy, of the nil',

... with Crape, and the Drumled along the Scaffolding, beating a dead March during Son ; the Hoofhold Trumpeters and Fifes walked in g, with black Jockeys Caps. Rocket was thrown up when the Royal Corps entered Scaffolding, and another when the Proceffion returned ...

Published: Tuesday 18 November 1760
Newspaper: Chester Courant
County: Cheshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2076 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

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... little while ago apprehended: Uncle Col jeflutes are founded upon the frequent Conference lately held. By :he Return of the Kill'd and Wounded of the Troops err. ploy ed in the Expedition at Belleifle, from the Bth Day of April. the Day of the hilt At:cmpt ...

Published: Tuesday 11 August 1761
Newspaper: Chester Courant
County: Cheshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1047 | Page: 2 | Tags: none