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Second Battle of Cremona
Antonius Primus was born near Toulouse around 20 AD.

Grainger's plan for Newcastle
In 1834 the builder Richard Grainger presented a comprehensive development plan to the Town Council for the land covered by the Anderson Place estate. John Dobson had already submitted a similar plan to the council ten years previously and been rejected. Grainger moved his legal business to the solicitor’s firm run by Clayton, the town clerk. The Council then adopted his scheme within two months, and it is transformed the centre of Newcastle. One of the three principal streets built under Grainger’s scheme was named Clayton Street.

An anonymous quotation made about Clayton at the time gives an indication of how some people regarded him:

"Has all the craft and subtlety of the devil. Great talents, indefatigable industry, immense wealth, and wonderful tact and facility in conducting business, give him an influence in society rarely possessed by an individual. Was unanimously re-elected Town Clerk because the Clique had not a man equal to supply his place. Can do things with impunity that would damn an ordinary man. A good voice, speaks well, and never wastes a word. Has a careworn, but sly countenance and spare person — limps in his gait from an accident — and loves the ladies."