Diverse London notices mix crime, court, and royal appointments
A rapid stream of London items reports a prisoner near release attacked a turn key, Madrid intelligence on royal health, and various court and civil appointments. It notes promotions and offices in Scotland and Ireland, a high court chivalry session, casualties from street incidents, a Quaker fine, fires at Rotherhithe, a Bil lingate mackerel-boat mishap, and local crime outcomes. Market quotes show South Sea and bond movements as the week opens.
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Holland
Prince of Orange
College of Arms
Doctors Commons
Edmund Isham
Earl of Effingham
England
Wadsworth
St. Saviour’s Southwark
Cambridge Heath
Hackney
Truby
Gardiner
Poultry Compter
Fleet-Prison
Rotherhith
Billinggate
Chilwell-street
William Robinson
Lost gold snuff box with mecha stone top found
A damaged note describes a lost snuff box left in a barge near dawn. The box has a cracked mecha stone top and two trees carved on it. A reward of three guineas is offered for return to Mr Powett in Farl's Court Bow Street Covent Garden with no questions. Report any pawn offers to prevent theft.
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L O. S
Works and travels early modern volumes advertised
An old catalog advertises George Granville Lansdowne works and related writings. It lists A New Survey of England with Camdenian corrections, Roman roads, and natural history. observations on Earths and minerals. Travels of three Princes of Sarendip with eight novels. The Politisk Wife. and Female Falfhood with its two pocket volumes. Prices noted and a guardian recommendation mentioned.
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George Granville Lord Lansdowne
England
Defas
Cambden
N. Salmon
Great Britain
J. Strachey Esq
F. C
Sarendip
M. de St. Evremond
Richard Seele
The
Guardian
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Madrid
Aranjuez
Infante
Don Lewis
Donna Maria‘Wheresia
Donna Maria-Antoinette
Oran
Algerines
Marquis de Miramenil
Foot
Walloon Guards
London
Whitehall
N.S
Thomas Lord Lovell
Edward Carteret
Archibald Earl of Troy
Scotland
Duke of Montrose
James Duke of Athol
Archibald Earl of Jay
Charles Earl of Selkirk
Earl of Tankerville
Col. Negus
William Heathcote
Hursley
Southampton
Edward Crofton
Henry King
Thomas Prendergast
Ireland
George Proctor
Castle of Windsor
Robert Howe
James Colebrooke
Court of Common Pleas
William Kinaston
High Court of Chancery
Shrewsbury
Robert Middleton
Walter Campbell Eig
Mungo Graine
William Finch
John Anttis
Order of the Garter
Anftis
Bertes Smith
John Scott
Gloucester
St. James’s
John Stiff
Sera Bangham
Newgate
South Sea
South Sea Anhuity
Bank
S. Prem
Million Bank
India
Royal Assurance
London Assurance
Prem
Cato
N. B
Ames
J. Walthoe
Royal Exchange
Cornhill
Sethos
Teraffon
French Academy
Royal Academy of Sciences
Paris
Leoiard
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