Cobbett and Boxall heirs trust case in vice chancery
In a vice chancellor’s court matter from 1827, William Cobbett faced a claim by Miss Boxall’s estate over stock and an annuity. Cobbett admitted handling funds and selling stock citing public funds’ instability. The court granted a monetary alternative requiring Cobbett to place funds in the Bank of England.
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Martin
Miss Oxall
William Cobbett
Boxall
Testatrix
Otham Cobbett
Miss Bores
Alding
Bank of England
Hisself
Wm. Cobbett
Lowart
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MY Lovart
Court OF King’s Bench
Barker
Field
Court of Chancery
James Hempseby
Gurney
Comyn
Frederick Pollock
Brodrick
Hampleby
Mr. Brovenam
Mr. Hempleby
Mr. Brougham
Humpleby
Botha
Burrough
Monro
Rowley
Brovovan
Tennekpes
Mr. Humpleby
Constable seeks exam over deadly castor oil in lamp of care
Police constable Robins on duty told Magistrate Minshull his wife and infant died after a nurse gave castor oil from a bottle seen in a Westminster medical man s charge. The magistrate urged chemical testing and an inquest if warranted. A theatrical wife sought support from her Covent Garden musician husband. Marylebone magistrates spent time on street ice and snow fines under the Street Act. Union Hall case concerns Bowles Enfield burglary with laudanum, arsenic found near haystack. Lee confessed, implicating Wood Sales and two others. both imprisoned, with potential approver status. Two men remanded on extortion tied to a fiddle case.
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Jetter F Division
Minsuoll
Westminster
Mixsault
Minapole
Covent-garden Theatre
Bath
Marylebone
Minshell
Bow-Street
Michael Angelo Taylor
Avavner
Union-Hall
Thomas Sale
John Lee
Howe
Air
Evgarp
Bowles
Enfield
Middlesex
Woods
Mr. Bowles
Lee
London Road
Wood
Sales
London
Weene
Hart
Power
King’s Head
Weather in London and Mustard Seed Guidance
The column reports freezing temperatures from Mr Bithray's register with 18, 17 and 11 degrees, notes a ten year barometric fall at Royal Exchange with heavy snow, and highlights Waite Mustarpo Seev's pamphlet on mustard seed as a remedy with gradual introduction, dosing cautions, and perseverance emphasized for efficacy.
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London
Bithray
Faherenheit
Waite Mustarpo Seev
Death at the Gloucester residence shrouds royal grounds
A tragic incident at the Princess Sophia of Gloucester mansion on Blackheath endangers alarms and reveals a servant’s drunken neglect in Windsor deer procurement. A man, Henry Eggleston, shot deer then killed himself, leaving two children. Coroner set for Saturday.
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Gloucester
Blackbhet
Windsor
Greenwich Park
Royal Palace
Royal
Bea
Mr. Buck
Dela
John Eggleston
Eggleston
Windene
Robert Eggleston
Hyde Park
Blackheath 1
Ascestun
Egpleston
Terki
Highness
Henry
Morrigan
Wattsford
Princesa
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Common Council Debates on Market and City Police Reforms
Alderman Woop chairs as Lord Mayor absent in a session discussing Smith Geld Market changes and a plan to revise policing. Petition seeks no market enlargement. debate on costs and effects of alterations. A motion to study ward-constables and street-keepers passes as the Court proceeds to annual committee selections.
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Alderman Woop
Scales
Smith Geld Market
Savace
Brackett
City Watch
Alderman Venables
Macy
S. Dixon
Ticker
T. Lawrence
Whitehall
Somerset-house
Temple-bar
Bridge-street
Dixon
Alderman Wood
E. ‘Paylor
Aldermian Wood
Taylor
Stevens
Ncw
Alderman VeNaptes
Calamitous Fire Near Oswestry Destroys Farm Buildings
A devastating blaze near Oswestry destroyed the farmhouse, outbuildings, dairy stock, and household belongings of Mrs. Pri widow of Maesbury. Nine cows perished, two houses were consumed, and an insurance absence noted. Help from Oswestry and Protector engines arrived too late. A subscription fund was to be started for the widow. Births, marriages, and deaths followed in local notices.
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Mra
Maesbury
Oswestry
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