Western London Gazette notices and Army appointments
From the London Gazette a mixture of royal grants and offices at St James's and Hyde Park, plague updates in Constantinople, and December 10 War Office army commissions across Lieutenants to Ensigns, with surrender notices and solicitors at Guildhall, plus names and addresses of merchants and tradesmen across England.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Whiterall
Lord Grenville
Ranger
St. James’s Park
Hyde Park
Earl of Orford
Exiled royals and French politics in crisis letters
Dispatches from Windsor discuss ex-prince preparations for reentering France and royal household intrigue over remitted funds. Commentary notes King Louis XVI’s fate, England’s commerce, and upheaval in the French National Assembly with chaotic sessions and parliamentary friction. An amused citizen quips about a man who vows to sue after being caned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Coblentz
d’Arrois
Interior
Lewis XVI
Europe
Francz
England
French National Assembly
Tribune
Orford Estates Descent and Competing Heirs Explored
The document reviews the late Earl of Orford's estates in Devonshire Cornwall and Norfolk including Houghton and Ashburton Callington, noting their passage to Sir Samuel Rolle and heirs General. It details two wills from 1752 and 1766 with cholmondeley and Walpole lines, a 1776 codicil gifting ten thousand pounds, and questions which will stands if the Earl dies without issue thus deciding Cholmondeleys versus Walpoles of Woolerton succession.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Devonshire and
Cornwall
Doeféthire
Norfolk
Houghton
Samuel
Rolle
Countess of
Orford
Clinton
Say
Fee
Theophilus Earl of Lincoln
Arabella
Samuel Rolle
Mr. Trefusis
Earl of
Duke of Newcastle
Lincoln
Ashburton
Callington
Edward Walpole
Horatio Walpole
Cholmondeley
Walpoles
Woolterton
Cholmondeleys
Mr Flood's Will Leaves Dublin University Legacy
The will of Henry Firoop, Esq. leaves 8000 per annum to Warden Flood, 2500 per annum for life to Ambrose Smith, and a 3000 per year life annuity to a young lady connected to Lady Frances Flood. George Huron receives estate rent and 2000 to his servant. all other servants gain a full year's wages. Lady Frances Flood inherits the remainder of personal property and estate for life, with the bulk of landed property to University of Dublin after her death to fund a professor ship and Irish language studies, plus premiums for Irish Greek Latin or English compositions. If the university bequest fails, the estates revert to Ambrose Smith with Lady Frances Flood as joint executors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Firoop
Warden Flood
Ambrose Smith
Frances Flood
George Huron
Toool
University of Dublin
English eccentrics and Cambridge duel reports from antiquated notes
A curio filled excerpt notes Lord Viscount Matpex and Lord Bauer fleeing Rome for Florence and Naples, Eton numbers rise to 430, fashion foot reduction by English belles, a county sheriff seizes theatrical wardrobe, Dr Mraver linked to Cambridge chemistry, and a Cambridge duel warning from the university heads condemns pistol shooting as a high offence under the forty second statute.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Viscount Matpex
Lord Bauer
Earl of Aytessury
Rome
Florence
Naples
Eton-Schoot
Grand Redeldion
Duchess of York
Delpinit and Co
Jobn Dee
Richard Roe
Mraver
Carlisle
Cambridge
Landaff
Cambridge University
Duke of Leinster Hosts Ball After Fetes at Carton
In Dublin on December 8 His Grace the Duke of Leinster praised his servants for their conduct during recent fetes at Carton for the christening of the Marquis of Kil dare. He hosted a ball and supper for tenants and families with daughters and guests joining in the dancing. A fire damaged Mr Clinch’s Hawkin street brewery early Monday, spreading to a warehouse before being halted by parish and college engines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Duke of Leinster
Carton
Marquis of Kildare
Childes
Carton-house
Clinch
Hawkinstreet
Man Runs Naked to Mill in Storm Fatal Rescue Fails
On a stormy Saturday night near Manchester at Staley Bridge a man ran naked to a mill over a mile away. He did not return for hours and was found dead with meal husks as proof of his mil l visit. He refused offered clothes and aid, leaving a wife and five children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Staley Bridge
Manchester
A Thief Deceives Stand Stand Burgess Tea Pot Swap
Yesterday a man calling himself Fido visited Silversmith Mr Awart in the Stand bargaining for two tea pots and arranging shipment to Mr Burgess in Southampton Buildings. He then deceived Mrs Burgess, left with the tea pots, and vanished with the loot after telling a boy to wait.
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Fido
Awart
Antt
Mr. Burgess
Southampton
Chancery-lane
Marybone
Londo
Lee-bridge
Mitchell
Walthamstow
Clapton
Susannah Atkinson
Whitcomb Street
Coventry-street
Westminster
Dreamlike Chronicle on Restoration of Equal Laws
A satirical 1826 London Chronicle imagines a dreamlike political revolution. It mocks Tippoo Sultan trade favors, prices, and a new constitution where property is shared, debt vanishes, and literacy is no barrier to Parliament. It lampoons emblems, obits, and the old order with dark humor and period tone.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. James’s Street
Constitutional Chronicle
London
Fock Payne
Bengal
Tiipoo Sais
America
East Indies
Pippoo
Serangapatam
Tippoo
Jeremian Dunstan
Aldersgate-street
Jeoffry Dunstan
John Simpfor
Parningham
Ai Devant
Spital Fields
France
Hyde Park
Sheripan
Fox
St. James’s Churchyard
William Pitt
Jack Payne
Pall Mall
St. James’s Palace
Newgate
Sons and Daughters of Liberty
Ci-Devant
Beprorp
Portt Lanp
Devonshire
Hanover
Tom Payne
St. Paul’s
N. B
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The
London Gazette
Constantinople
War Office
Henry Lane
Gid Fat
Peter Buchuanas
Lasign
Rith Foot
James Grant
4Th Foot
Robert Manners
Richard Gem
Campane
Matthew Scott
Walter Ker
H Foot
John Gretton
John Willington
Idugh Houttoun
John Grimston
William Gray
Thomas Motram
Font
Archibald"Moflman
Dreland
Rath Dragoons
James Stewart Denham
Colemete
Alexander Douglas
Apealn
Foot
Samuel Knollis
John Castlemany
Josh Foots
John Clarke
James A. Chaundy
Ames Urquhart Lawtie
Hatton-garden
Ghildhall
Mr. Jones
Salisbury-square
Fleet-street
Ohn Lyre
Broterton
Yorkshire
Limeburner
Angelian
Rose and Crown
Leeds
Lee
Thomas Balch
Stratford
Essex
Pouderer
Ter
Guildhall
Druce
Fenchurch-street
U Eduard Taylor
Thomas Johnson
Short’s-gardens
Drury-lane
John Geil
Lewis Lewis
Llanfynwyed
Carmarthenflute
White Hart-inn
Broad-street
Brisol
Edward Archer
Henrietta-street
Covent-garden
Thomas Scollick
Moorfields
Samuel Partridge
Lemuel Punfield
Birmingham
Union-tavern
Cherry-street
Thomas Andrews
Mr. Flood
Reland
Dublin
Leicester
Bristol
Tudor
Pall
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