The Mercury committed a Grave error by misreading a note sent to it conveying the information of two deaths.
” We misread the note of a correspondent at Spilsby last week, and committed an error which carries with it an air of levity, for which we feel real concern. Instead of Mr. Thomas Raiderstone, of Halton Holegate, being married to Miss Jessop, of Burgh in the Marsh, we should have stated that both those parties are dead.”
Stamford Mercury, 9th September, 1807.