The Second Part
The Moorshire Mercury
The publick paper of the county, preserved entire. Click any sheet to read it at large.
No. MCDLXXVIII
Saturday, the 16th of September, 1790
The famous Night Rider of the North Road seeks his own head — three nights absent, a sum promised for its safe return. He remains, the paper notes, otherwise in good health.
No. MCDLXXIX
Saturday, the 23rd of September, 1790
WITCHCRAFT MADE LAWFUL — this journal reprints the plain text of the Act, that readers may see for themselves the fires are out. The old law is real; the reader may look it up. What returned when the fires went out is a matter for the other pages.