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Court Ceremony and Local Incidents in London and Abroad
The report describes a formal ceremony in which twelve Serjeants attended the King’s Bench and Common Pleas divisions, alongside various officers, followed by notices of deaths and other local events. It records Sir John Giffard’s death, a customs seizure of four thousand pounds of tea at Wandworth, the death of Thomas Heafcath at Newgate, a man’s pawned French plate, and the capture and recapture of a pawned plate. It notes a woman’s death after a dress incident at St. Paul’s, a clerical appointment at Greenwich, a yellow gown incident at St. Paul’s Choir, and international dispatches from Berlin, Naples, Genoa, Milan, and Vienna about shifts in European power, finances, and military actions. The King remains in good health at Herenhauser and foreign letters discuss Dutchies, Bastia, St. Benedict, and various troop movements across Europe.