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London Letter: Society Notes and Political Gleanings
Long column of scattered items including appointments, marriages, and travels. Mentions Major Patt Week's death near Newcastle, Sir Wilfrid Lawson MP death and succession notes, Lady Long's delivery of a son, Nicholas Herbert's marriage, Sir Tancred Robinson and Thomas Robinson's travel to Tope dif, Thomas Townly’s Lancashire estate, potential Customs appointment for Sir George Caswall, and the Torrington Man of War's movement. Also reports a Chinese celestial event in Canton, arrivals at Greenwich for Holland visit, India Company trade exports and imports, and a notable excise trial over Barcelona liquor. Ends with court appointments and Hampton Court ministerial orders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
House of Lords
Newcastle
Pen Tine
Wilfrid Lawson
Bart
Cockermouth
Mordaunt
Earl of Peterborough
Lady Long
Boyt Long
Wootton Pfef
Earl
Nicholas Herbert
Earl of Pembroke
St. George’s, Queen-square
North
Goivenor-square
Tancred Robinson
Metcalf Robinson, Bart
Lancashire
Thomas Townly
Royall
Bsg
Townly
George Caswall
Charles Peers
Torrington
Trefafis
Woolwich
Portsmouth
Edward Trelawny
Jamaica
Canton
China
Henry Houghton
Preston
All Hallows
London Wall
Miss Butteworth
Thomas Batterworth
Manchester
Duke of Dorset
John Sackville
Caroline
Vere Beauclerc
Betty Germain
William and Mary Yatcht
Greenwich
Holland
Hague
Namure
Collyer
Dorfet
Earl of Middlesex
India Company
India
Turky
Calais
Gottenburg
Hamburgh
Dunkirk
Portugal
Lisbon
Corsica
Barcelona
Hampton Court
Henry Bromley
Knights of the Shire
Cambridge
Great Britain
Baron Bromley
Horseheath