Royal grants and court notices in London Gazette fragment
The item lists grants of surname and arms to John Aberdeen and others, approval of Baron title for Charles Godfrey Wolff, ball tickets at St James’s, and weathered items from Venice and Berlin. It also notes bankrupts in London and Manchester, diversions of dividends, and certificates due by January end.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Aberdeen
Henrietta-street
St. Paul
Covent- Garden
Middlesex
Robert Donald the Younger
Medmar
Aberdeen
Toohn’ Rae
Sland
Grenada
Laval
Harvey
Robert Harvey
Charles Godfrey Wolff
Holy Roman Empire
Vienna
St. James’s
N. B
Liorp Chamberlain
Margaret Otherwise Margrett Turner
Paddington
Esex
Victualler
Guildhall
Maberley
Hatton-garden
John Francis Morier
Temple Mills
Essex
Callico
Dalton
Joseph Corns
Peter Corns
Manchester
King’s Head
Salford
Cooper
Southampton Buildings
Chancery Lyne
Londo
Globe Tavern
Liverpool
Royal private drawing room and court notes from St James's
The morning at St James's observes a private drawing room for ladies unable to attend public presentation on the Birthday. The Prince of Wales and friends hunted in the New Forest. Lady Gatwary’s remains moved toward the Yorkshire family vault. Reports recount wealth transfers and a silver fortune tidily divided, with notes on silver prices and a Hampshire wedding of Francis Sheridan to Miss Plowden.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. James’s
Prince of Wales
New Forest
Hants
Lady Gatwary
Charles-street
St. James’square
Yorkshire
Morgan
Tredegar
William Morgan
Fredegar
Eoward Brixore
Cecry Bisorr
India Company
China
Tichborne
Hampshire
Francis
Trial of James Macmanus for assault and false imprisonment
Mrs Trunket, widow of Bow Street, accuses road patrole James Macmanus of assaulting her and forcing her into a back room for a strip search after a bad half crown was offered to a hairdresser. Davy, with Mrs West, faced coercion and threats as witnesses describe Macmanus’s conduct at the Dolphin and nearby pubs. The jury convicts Macmanus, and the chairman notes public danger from such officers. sentence to follow.
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King
Macmanus
Trinket
James Macmanus
Garrow
Trunket
Martlett Court
Bow Street
West
Davy
White Hart
Drury-lane
Bay
John Reed
Reed
Mr. Davy
Macmanus Would Not Believe Either What Mrs. Trunket
Reid
Sampson Wright
Bow-street
Sir Sampson Wright
Justice Walker
Hyde Street
Bloomsbury
Drury Lane
Justice’s
Buffalo
Imu
Mrs. West
Walker
Chairman
J. Read
Bow
Blackheath Road
Dolphin
Dolphin Public-House
Guttrty
Greely
Chairstan
Chan Man
Fox hunting chase through Affais to the Downs ends in kill
The article chronicles a long fox hunt led by Oni Saturday Jaf and Col Hartitty's hounds across Affais stead Yattendon Park and surrounding covers. After a two hour and forty minute epic, the fox was killed on the Downs between Unhill and Lellington, with continued pursuits the next day and multiple foxes unkennelled in nearby covers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Col. Hartitty
Affais
Yattendon Park
Lye Wood
Horsley
Hampstead Beech Wood
Ambrose
Lay Fields
Sir F. Syxes
Furzes
Nobel
Harecrofts
Mr. la Mortre
Lellington
Winterbourne
Sina Fom
Newland
Aborfield Park
Moor Copses
Swallowfield Park
Farley Hill
Hurdies
Wyfields
A narrow miss with a Liege gun shocks Newport readers
A visitor narrowly escaped serious injury when a gun made in Liege exploded during use. The barrel blew open eight inches, the stock shattered, and the lock bent. He suffered only a small finger wound.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tilney
Liege
Germany
Newport
Guernsey
Wheeler
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Zante
Morea
Berlin
Achmet Effendi
Sublime Porte
Thomas Kirkham
Chapel-street
Pentonville
de Roll
Union Buildings
Ledtiestane
Ichard Wood
Broughton
Lincolnshire
James Garnett
Sessions House
Clerkenwell
Sporting
Country News
Reavine
Fan
Cambridge
W. L. Mantel
John Evans
Richard Wallis
Foxton
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