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EDINBURGH Evening Courant, fan, 49. On Monday laft as two Men were carrying a Stone alongft the Scaffolding of a

... Monday laft as two Men were carrying a Stone alongft the Scaffolding of a pew Houfe in Belt’s Wynd the Stone fell off the Barrow, over a Window* three Stones high, and went thro’a Shade and killed one William Pollofc, a Maibu, who was hewing « Stone under ...

Published: Tue 05 Feb 1751
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 256 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

LONDO N

... ieeing them, and as fuppofed, thereby weakened the Stays of the Scaffold, upon whicli were a Hundred Perfbns, about fonr- fcore of which fell into the River, and a great Part of the Scaffold upon them ; but feveral Soldiers quartered there, who were on ...

Published: Thursday 31 July 1755
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 653 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Since our laj} arrived a Mail from Holland,

... him from eight till ten, when he gave him Abfolution. He had told him the Day before, that he would not attend him to the Scaffold, becaufe he could not refrain from Weeping if he faw him fhed Tears. Mandrin affined him he would not fhed one ; and kept ...

Published: Tuesday 24 June 1755
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 882 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Part of a Letter from Franc fort, Jdn. 24

... Rack fo often, that he was hardly able to get up the Stairs .of the. Scaffold. He was brought thither in an open Cart with the Duke d'Aviero, who remained in it, at the Foot of the Scaffold, whjle the other was difpatched before his Eyes. After they had taken ...

Published: Tuesday 13 February 1759
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2154 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

5. AmZerdarm, Ofober 8. We had here Yef. terday and rhc.prccccding/Ni hrya moft violent Storm ot Wind, which ..

... Sireer, a Scaffold, on which were four Workinen repairing a Houfe, was thrown down, and the Arms or Legs of three of them broken, and the fourth molt térribly bruifcd, fo that his Lite is defpaired of. Inthe Jews Quarter, two poor Men were killed by the ...

Published: Tuesday 26 October 1756
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 518 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

tenances, is ordered for Ireland, whither alfo it

... happened, which cruthed his Chair in a thoufand Picces. 14. That Afternoon a 2 Woman w3s accidental. 1y killed, by the Fall of a Part of a Scaffold a . the Head ot Blackfrier’s-Wynd. ...

Published: Tuesday 17 February 1756
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 656 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

L O N 1) O N,

... in town on Saturday. Yefferdav, after the Houfe of Peers broke up. the Lord Chancellor gave a dinner to the --Tar-ms o> Scaffold, with teverj Peers, the Lord Advocate of Scotland, and f_-ver.il Gentlemen of the Law Scc-at his Lordship's hoiife in Great ...

Published: Saturday 27 March 1790
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1759 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

E D I tf B U R G H Ft

... of Magdalen's Chapel was blown down, which beat through the Roof of a Houfe, and Part of a Scaffold was blown ?? in Black- friars Wynd this Day, which killed a poor Woman upon the Spor. By Defire, Concerthall, Cavougate. On Monday next, being 9th Febroary ...

Published: Saturday 07 February 1756
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 843 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

L O N D O N

... s are order’d to do Duty that Night in Old Palace-Yard, and a large Detachment of Foot-Guards pofted on both Sides the Scaffolding, to prevent the Proceflion being Interrupted. . ' The Guns of the Tower and Park are order’d to fire every Mirtute, from ...

Published: Tue 23 Apr 1751
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 909 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

EDINBURGH, Auv. .

... Elqr's Horfe, Rover. And on Wedne'fday as ftveral Men were at Work on a Scaffold, at the Seat of William Fenwick Efq; at By well, it unfortunately fell down, by which two of them were killed and others much hurt. We hear from Sunderland, thaton Tuefday Morning ...

Published: Tuesday 05 August 1755
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 937 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

7- l?~. KEATBI.E beg

... the fpaec of twotty days and certifying Such as iU'ed, that tiny woukl be fined lor contempt of authority, and their doirs killed ? Yet l,tde regard has been had thereto/and the danger to the . lu-ges fir.cc the order was ?? having much encreafed, from ...

Published: Monday 25 June 1792
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Advertisement | Words: 8550 | Page: 4 | Tags: Classifieds