Court and Crown News From London and Nearby Towns
Londoners hear of royal air outing to Kensington Gardens and a dinner at St James's while the customs fraud inquiry opens at Whitehall. Reports note ill health of the Countess of Oxford and a Georgia colony relief lottery planned for 500000 pounds. Maritime movements, a wedding, political petitions, coroner verdicts, a tower fall, a drowning, a fatal church tower fall, and local disturbances plus stock lists and municipal celebrations in Dedham and Dublin fill the pages.
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Kensington
St. James’s
Duke of Newcastle
Whitehall
Countess of Oxford
Lord Oxford
Sir Hugh Middleton
Great
Ruffeltreet
Bloomsbury
Georgia
America
Mediterranean
Admiral Stewart
Nore
Spithead
William Wotton Elg
Trail of Artillery
Seal
Grosvenor
Robert Grosvenor
Morgan
St. George’s Church
Overture to ease church yoke and plant new churches
In Aberbrothwick on April 13 the Committee of Overtures urged the Synod to press the General Assembly to address the King and Parliament to ease the church yoke of patronages and to restore church planting methods. the Synod unanimously agreed and urged members to support the move. In Edinburgh on April 23 a minister, Rev James Alston of Dirleton, died after an illness and was praised for serving as moderator. on April 24 the Synod of Lothian and Tweeddale elected Rev James Glen as moderator after an excellent sermon by Rev Fordice of Corstorphine.
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Aberbrothwick
Edinburgh
Iliack
James Alston
Dirleton
Synod of Lothian and Tweddale
Fordice
Corstorphine
James Glen
Impartial Lawyer and Public Notices from 18th Century Ireland
In Ireland Dublin April 21 reports a Gardiner's cart with dung fatally striking a child in Grange-Gorman Lane, and a man drowning at Afton's Quay. The edition promotes The Impartial Lawyer or Suitor's Guide detailing officer duties, law proceedings, and a catalog of law books including State Trials and Hawkins Pleas of the Crown, with multiple editions and legal texts listed for purchase.
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Dublin
Gardiner
Grange-Gorman- Lane
Afton’s Quay
Ledwitch
England
Price
J. Walthoe
Royal Exchange
Cornhill
K. Richard II
K. George I
Olio
Serjearir Hawkins
Coke
Little
Nifi Prius
G. Duncombe
Inner-Temple
Nelson
Justice of the Peace
Blackerby
Justice of Peace
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London
Denry
Brifl
Stapleton
Bowles Walter
Red Lion
John Hales Bart
St. Austin’s
Sir John
Boughton
Henry Waller
Wiliam Pembrooke
William Elley
Elley
Ely
Mercer
Stephen-street
Wewstreet
Kevan’s-street
Newstreet
Reiley
South Sea
Prem
India
Royal
York
Scotland
Ireland