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Election of Common Serjeant and City affairs aboard
London report notes the Commons Serjeant election choosing Thomas Garrard over Simon Urlin by a large majority. Also covered: council bills for frequent meetings, quicker Chamberlain elections, coroners and exchequer court changes, royal visit by the Duke and Dutchess of Queensberry, deaths and pardons, theater offerings, and notices of a bridge audience and prison escape reward.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
John Lingard
Deceas
Simon Urlin
Elgg
Thomas Garrard
Alderman Child
Garrard
Common Council
Joseph Partington
Farringdon
Urlin
George Rivers
City of London
John King
William Thompson
Baron Hale
Thomas Lee
Bart
County of Bucks
Duke
Dutchess of Queensberry
Oxfordshire
Duke of Hamilton
Earl of Selkirk
Dover
France
Milton
Somersetshire
Earl of
Orkney
Archibald Hamilton
Jace Durchess
Anne Hamilton
Susan
Sophia
Edmund Day
Allhallows
Merchant-Taylors School
East India
China
Mocha
Company
Gravesend
Edward Grant
Sarum
King’s Bench
Westminster
William Pyle
James Pyle
Grant