Weatherday: A 'scandalous trade'

View along the Seine in Paris from the top of the Eiffel Towner (2016).

Cloudy with some patchy rain or drizzle to start. It should dry up in the afternoon, and there's a possibility of a little sun.

Temperature getting up to 9deg in light southerly winds veering later from the west.

On this day in 1740, a 'degraded' clergyman, Edward Sewell, was hanged in St Stephen's Green in Dublin for the offence of 'couple beggar', marrying a Protestant and Catholic.

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