Fire devastates Temple Court houses in London blaze
A major Temple fire consumed over twenty chambers including Crown Office Row and Fig Tree Court. Chimneys collapsed injuring three bystanders. Councillor York’s chambers avoided damage as he was away in Sussex. Fire crews saved Temple Hall but many kitchen and basement areas were destroyed. Cause remains uncertain with varied reports. A boy is missing, and false claims of firefighters' deaths circulated.
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Russia
Porte
Bngs Lind
Sir Charles Wager
Great Britain
St. James’s
Crown Office Row
Thelanere Temple
Hillary
Abbertisements for Hugh Davis alias the Bishop’s Secy
A late November notice warns that Hugh Davis secretary to the Bishop of Sarum fled from the Bishop’s House at Salishe with money and bills of high value. It offers a ten percent reward for recoveries and delivery to the Bishop at the Temple House, describing Davis as about forty, fair complexioned, with light eyes and a sandy beard, wearing a light wig and two suits. He is a North Wales man formerly Deputy Register at Bangor, noted violent fits and a crooked little finger, and marked by a gunpowder figure on an arm.
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Hugh Davis
Sarum
Salishe
North Wales
Bangor
Dublin Society Advertises Land Proposals in 18th Century Plans
From Dublin December 17 1736 a General Meeting of the Incorporated Society in Dublin for promoting English Protestant Schools in Ireland announces it will publish an advertisement. The society seeks proposals from landowners to furnish portions of land to support charity schools and employments for Protestant education, husbandry and linen manufacture, with submissions directed to Harvard at Great Burles Lane.
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Dublin
Incorporated Society
Ireland
Great Britain
Kingdom
Coristopher
Hackney
Great Burtes Lane
John Hansard
Printing House Notice in Dublin
Printed by 7 Gowan at the Spin nal Wheel Back Lane Dublin advert ads taken in and all printing work done reasonably with prompt service for local notices and miscellaneous printing tasks in the area.
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Dublin
Gowan
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Backlane
Mecuda
Adley
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