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Rumors and Executions Stir London to May News
May dispatches report fleet movements under Vice Admiral Appraxin and troop reinforcements to Astracan Derbent, amid diplomatic talks on East India trade. Christopher Layer Eig is executed at Tyburn after his dying speech. Black Berkshire prisoners are moved to Newgate. a new coin shipment goes to the Bank and Hydes Park encampment looms. Dublin cites a spurious Layer speech, while Florence and Vienna relay military and political updates including Turkish/Central European tensions.
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Petersbourg
Appraxin
Odets
Astracan
Derbent
Vienna
Scates
Lis
East India Company
Austrian Netherlands
Christtopher Layer Eig
London
Middlesex
Aldgate
Newgate
Therce
Tyburn
Church of England
Temple-Bar
King George
Hydes Park
Berkshire
Reading
Cowper
Chalk
Cock-pit
Whitehall
Francis Lord Bshop
Rochester
Florence
Porto Ferrajo
Adriatick
Prague
Eugene
Savoy
Hungary
Belgrade
Hussars
James Philips
Cape Coast
James Hay