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London Crime and War News Fragments in Old Chronicle
Reading from a 18th century issue, reports a morning fire at St Margrets Workhouse in Westminster causing damage before extinguish. It notes Grand Jury indicts Thomas Armstead for arsenic poisoning attempts in Grace Church Street. Also robberies, captures at Kilburn, privateer actions near Martinico, shipwrecks, and Dunkirk garrison details with Count Saxe.
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St. Margaret's
Westminster
Guildhall
City of London
Thomas Armstead
Martin
Gracechurch Street
Thomas Wright
Thomas de Veil
King’s
Kilburn
Letitia Pennington
Anne Goreing
Faulkland
Greenville
Spithead
Cape Clear
John Balchen
Montferrat
Higging
Martinico
Fort St. Peirre
St. Kitt’s
London
Dunkirk
Lodg