HOT OFF THE PRESS… 18th-century style
Pick up the first edition of Scotland’s newest paper The Edinburgh Courant, in February 1705 and not only would you read of embezzlement by Edinburgh bank teller Robert Pringle, who ‘went off with 425 lib. sterling’, but also about conflict on the continent: a siege in Gibraltar and civil unrest in Vienna.
New postal services are announced for ‘Edinburgh… Wigtoun, and New-Galloway’ for ‘letters and paquets’. And
