Court and Church Festivities and Navy Movements Relayed
Updates from Madrid and London describe royal devotions in Seville and Madrid, appointments of Corregidors in Mexico and city finances, ship arrivals and losses, and criminal trials in England. Notable named figures include Don Urban de Abumada y Guererro, Manuel de Eliza, Don Francisco de Aperegui, and Captains Sommers Holden and Fitzhugh, with stock and commodity quotes and notices of debt for the estate of John Stafford.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Don Valerio Joseph de Freytas
Brazil
Don Pedro
St. Rita de Caffia
Roch
Quictoria
Our Lady of Loretto
Oratory
Philip Neri
Madrid
N.S
Orders
Castile
Seville
Church of St. James
Fire Ravages Blandford Dorset and Distemper Sufferers
A dreadful fire in Blandford Dorsetshire burned the town and church to ashes except about sixteen houses. The distressed poor afflicted with the smallpox face expulsion from houses and field shelter. Donations are urged to Alderman Call and Alderman Hankey for distribution to the needy, with names and addresses requested to encourage giving.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Blandford
Dorsetshire
Temple Bar
Alderman Hankey
Fenchurch-street
London City Sheriff Eligibility Decree From 1731
The court orders that any person nominated sheriff who pays four hundred pounds into the Chamber and twenty marks for ministers’ maintenance will be exempt from sheriffship for ever, subject to later Alderman election rules. payment details refer to October 1703 and December 1656 city ordinances.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chamber of London
Comimog Council
Middlesex
Charity appeal ordered for Blandford and Tiverton sufferers
In June 1731 the parishes of Wefminster appoint churchwardens to collect charitable benevolences for the fires victims in Blandford Dorset and Tiverton Devon. A book will record donors and gifts at Mr Joan Williams Grocer, King Street, with collections published in newspapers and funded by office costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Blandford
Dorset
Tiverton
Devon
Joan Williams
King - Street
Weffeminster
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London
Duke of Bedford
Stretton
Winchester
John Roffel
Adolphus Oughton
Col
Pulteney
Admiralty
Sir Charles Wager
Sussex
Newgate
Justice Gifford
Eleanor Wingfeld
Thomason Rueby
New Prison
Justice Osbourn
Charg
Daniel Brace
Cale
Allen Evans
Thomas Pritchard
Thayer
Thomas Locke
James-street
Paristy
St. Andrews
Holborn
Lyell
China
Gore
The
East India Company
Devonshire
Prince Augustus
St. Helena
Fordwich
Craggs
Bengall
Fort St. George
Hunter
Sommers
Duke of York
Holden
Fitzhugh
Derby
Barrington
Qld Woman's Island
Angree
Horden
Lea Bohea
South Sea
India
Royal Afsurance
York Buildings
Welch
John Stafford
Edmonton
Ratcliff
Gui Pice
Norfolk-street
Fiverton
Ramsey
Parsons
Camera Guihald
Civiratt
St.margaret’s Ferry
Rosmy
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