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Disease and disaster loom as Crime and Plots fill town
The sheet records charitable gifts for the poor amid fears of the health powder plot and anti Popery fears. It notes executions at Tyburn and a cobbler killing his wife, highway robbery near Brick Hill, and a boy capture after a pursuit. It mentions tea seizures, a tragic infant death from a hog attack, and royal news including gifts to waiters, travels of the Prince of Wales, and Jamaica ship injuries from poison. It also reports Corsican and Lisbon political maneuvers and a note on an attempted arson on a ship's crew.
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Joseph Holden
Tyborn
Robert Dow
Jesus Christ
Cobler
Greb-street
Newgate
Pott
London
Chester
Brick Hill
Penney Stratford
Fenoy-Stratford
Rye
Gustom-house
Don Geraldine
Duke of Newcastle
Johan Patterson
Stephen Bright
Col. de Veil
Bristol
Jamaica
Guiney
Barbadoes
Cyan
Vienna
Portugal
Lisbon
Leghorn
Corsica
Nenhoff
Posto- Longaso
Naples
Marquis de Giglieri
M. Luke Ornano