Post Boy 25–27 December 1711

London, Dec. 27. On Saturday the 22d instant, about Four in the Morning, Mrs. Anne Long, Sister of Sir James Long, Bart. died at Linn in Norfolk, after a Sickness but of Four Hours. She was a Lady very much celebrated here for her Beauty, Virtue, and good Sense; and is extremely lamented by all who knew her.

Evening Post 11–13 Nov 1712

London, Nov. 13. We have received a more particular Account relating to the Box sent to the Lord Treasurer, as mention’d in our last, which is as follows.

On the Third Instant a tall, slender Boy, having on a Gray Coat and a brown bob Peruke, delivered a Band-box, (directed to the Lord Treasurers Porter) at a Penny-Post House behind Ludgate, which the next Morning was carried to the Office in Chichesters Rents, Chancery Lane, and from thence to the Lord Treasurers by one Causon, a Penny Postman, in which, upon opening was found another Band-Box, directed to theLordTreasurer. The Box was carry’d up to my Lord's Bed-Chamber, and deliver’d to his Lordship, who lifting up the Lid as far as the Pack-thread that ty’d it would give way, said, He saw a Pistol; whereupon, a Gentleman in the Room desired the Box might be given to him; he took it to theWindow, at some Distance from my Lord, and open’d it, by cutting with a Pen-knife the Pack-threads that fasten’d the Lid. The first Thing that appear’d was the Stock and Lock of a Pocket-Pistol, lying across the middle of the Band- Box, and fasten’d at each end with two Nails; on each side of the Fire-lock were laid the Middle-pieces of two large Ink-horns charg’d with Powder and Ball, and Touch-holes bored at the Butt-ends of ‘em, to which were fasten’d two Linnen Bags of Gunpowder, and at the other end of the Bags were two Quils fill’d withWildfire. These two artificial Barrels were plac’d with the Muzzels contrary-ways, and theQuil of one of ‘em directed to the Pan of the Pistol, as the other probably was, tho’ disorder’d by the Carriage.