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The Virginia Gazette Foreign News December 12, 1745
Richmond, Richmond, Virginia
What is this article about?
A private letter from South Shields describes local fear of the Jacobite rebels, a £4,000 remittance for Sir John Cope's men, and anecdotes of the Young Pretender's cowardice.
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- Mean ink quality
- 99.0% The length-weighted average confidence across the OCR lines — the mean of exactly the per-line scores whose tails the two figures below report. Typical is 99%.
- Illegible ink
- 0.0% Text sitting in OCR-detected lines that scored below 80% confidence — very shaky reads. Weighted by line length, so one long bad line counts for more than a short one.
- Uncertain ink
- 0.0% Text in lines that scored 80–90% — somewhat shaky reads.
- Matches source
- 97.42% How closely the served text matches the raw OCR of the same boxes, letter by letter, after collapsing spacing and case. This measures agreement, not correctness: the OCR is often wrong and the extractor corrects it, so 100% does not mean perfect, and a low figure usually means poor scan text was rewritten rather than that text was lost (length vs source shows loss).
- Length vs source
- 99.68% Below 100% means text was dropped from the OCR; above means text was added to make it read.
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- Transcription confidence
- 97.0% (typical 96%) How cleanly the extractor could assemble what it was given. Low here with clean ink scores points at layout analysis — the characters were read correctly but grouped or ordered wrongly.
- Comprehension
- 90.0% Whether the piece reads coherently start to finish. Can stay high while transcription confidence drops, when only part of the component is affected.
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Extract of a private Letter from South-Shields, dated Sept. 27, 1745, to his Friend at London.
We are in some Confusion here for fear of the Rebels, who by Treachery got into Edinburgh. Those concern'd in it, I hope, will meet with their Deferts.
I am told, that the Mayor of Newcastle has been wrote to for 4000l. to pay Sir John Cope's Men, for which the Glasgow Man of War is lying here to carry it to Berwick. There is such a Spirit appears among the People here, that he might have 40,000l. had there been Occasion. The Captain of the Glasgow din'd on board Admiral Byng, who lies off Berwick with Eight Sail of Men of War.
The Young Pretender, notwithstanding what has been said of him by his Friends, is the true Son of his Father, and has given Proof that he inherits his Cowardice, of which there are several Instances. ---- It was with the greatest Persuasion, that he would lie at Holy-rood-House, for fear the Cannon of the Castle might touch his Person. -..- Another Time, being in a great Mob at Edinburgh, and a Shell being thrown among them out of the Castle, he ran away to his Horse, and through Fear, mounted with some Difficulty. ----- Nor was he in the Fight against Sir John, taking great Care to keep at a Distance.
We are in some Confusion here for fear of the Rebels, who by Treachery got into Edinburgh. Those concern'd in it, I hope, will meet with their Deferts.
I am told, that the Mayor of Newcastle has been wrote to for 4000l. to pay Sir John Cope's Men, for which the Glasgow Man of War is lying here to carry it to Berwick. There is such a Spirit appears among the People here, that he might have 40,000l. had there been Occasion. The Captain of the Glasgow din'd on board Admiral Byng, who lies off Berwick with Eight Sail of Men of War.
The Young Pretender, notwithstanding what has been said of him by his Friends, is the true Son of his Father, and has given Proof that he inherits his Cowardice, of which there are several Instances. ---- It was with the greatest Persuasion, that he would lie at Holy-rood-House, for fear the Cannon of the Castle might touch his Person. -..- Another Time, being in a great Mob at Edinburgh, and a Shell being thrown among them out of the Castle, he ran away to his Horse, and through Fear, mounted with some Difficulty. ----- Nor was he in the Fight against Sir John, taking great Care to keep at a Distance.
What sub-type of article is it?
Rebellion Or Revolt
Human Interest
What keywords are associated?
Young Pretender Cowardice
South Shields Rebels
Admiral Byng Berwick
Sir John Cope Men
What entities or persons were involved?
Young Pretender
Admiral Byng
Sir John Cope
Captain Of The Glasgow
Where did it happen?
South Shields
Foreign News Details
Primary Location
South Shields
Event Date
Sept. 27, 1745
Key Persons
Young Pretender
Admiral Byng
Sir John Cope
Captain Of The Glasgow
Outcome
pretender said to have fled from a shell and kept at a distance in the fight against sir john cope.