This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
Marriage Alliances and the Warmer News from Fore-Street
Notices of marriages between Robert Colebrooke and Miss Powlett, Lord Viscount Duplin and Miss Arnley, plus local deaths, inductions and school scholarships. Also reports of a daring privateering action, a Derby storm, imports from Portugal and Dunkirk, and early 18th century financial market updates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Colebrooke
Maldon
Miss Powlett
Harry Powlett
Oxford Chapel
Viscount Duplin
Cambridge
Arnley
Wiltshire
Chapmore
Fore-Street
Moorfields
Foster
Water-Lane
Butler
Bristol
St. Paul’s
Joseph Butler
Shadwell
St. Barnabas
Merchant Taylors School
St.John’s College
Oxford
Cornewall Tathwell
William Macham
Spain
Drake
Wood
Dover
Barbadones
Iland
Ducy
Portsmouth
Derby
Dofield
Haslewood, &c
Madam Hooke
Mr. Bakewell
Normanton
Leicestershire
Portugal
Dunkirk
Holland
Carolina
Jamaica
London Gazette
Whitehall
Richard Plumpton
Anthony Corbiere
Thomas Gordon
Henry Harris
Elgis
William Adams
E Q
Henry Whitaker
St. Mary-le- Bon
Middlesex
Chapman
Thomas Parrott
Chick-Lane
London
Joseph Beale
John Dunning
Plymouth
Devon
Forman
London Bridge