SUNDAY, 21st.
Seventh Sunday after Trinity.
1403 Battle of Shrewsbury. In this engagement the Prince of Wales, afterwards Henry V., made his first essay in arms. The death of Henry Percy, bettor known as Hotspur, made this battle still more memorable.
1683 The execution of Lord Russell, for high treason, took place in Lincoln’s Inn Fields.
1704 Taking of Gibraltar by the English.
1796 Died, at Dumfries, in his thirty-eighth year, Robert Burns, the poet.
LONDON:
JOHN WILLIAM PARKER, WEST STRAND.
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