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Public Lights and Plunder Roil London Streets
Reports detail robberies in Frog-Lane Arling-ton with 73 guineas found on Riley and M Alley’s servant, a Bristol ship report, and naval prize debates. Highfield the lawyer jailed for infant ravishment, Watch and Hat stolen in the Borough, and cricket match notices from Newlands and Chuddy with Sussex and Surrey teams.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Francis Deit
Frog-Lane
Riley
M‘alley
Atkins
New Prison
William Highield
Lambeth
Southwark
William Hammond
Mary Gunnell
Highfield
Strong Hales
Beil
Barnaby Street
ST Cats
Bristol
Vaughan
Jamaica
Christophers
Miartinico
John
Henry
Duiftol
Antigua
Martinico
Lisbon
Brest
Cape St Mary
Admiral Mathews
John Balchen
Anson
Luconia
Newlands and Chuddy
Ssendon
Sussex
Gentlemen of
London
Sleadon
England
Addington
Surrey
Bromley
Kent
Bankr U.P