Ye Olde News

• 2011-08-26

  

  The London Gazette used to print threatening letters received by various politicians/noblemen and offer rewards for the capture of the authors of said letters.

  Many of them are quite wonderful. It’s like reading a selection of the finest 200 year old YouTube comments.

  (source: The London Gazette, June 18, 1785.)

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      I am Bloody Infernal Bigotted Gordon, (which will soon be) Your Destruction. Dying.

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      Trolling, 1780s style.

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