London Gazette’s February 1 list of sheriffs and officers
February 1 issue notes High Sheriffs for the year Corsity of Down Francis Savage Tuff Lodge Galway Hyacinth Bodkin Rosomasa Thomas Teniton Castle Teniton plus War Office announces Officers appointed to Independent Companies with Captain Thomas Steel and Lieutenant John Bonami among many others from various regiments and battalions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dusuin Castres
Corsity
Down
Francis Savage
Tuff Lodge
Ciesy
Galway
Hyacinth Bodkin
Rosomasa
Thomas Teniton
Castle
War Office
Fan
Thomas Steel
Ssth
Join Macpherson
John Bonami
Lord Sinclair
Francis Stuart
John Armstrong
Thomas Ger. Erlington
Thomas Hardyman
Jane Brock
James O'Conner
Charles Rawdon
Claus Pell
William Armstrong
Ceerte Anderson
William ‘Koughton
Richard Neale
Duncan Drummond
John Stewart
Tionald Macdonald
Levett Peacocke
John Sandieman
T. Cent Reynolds
Mescia Allen
William Besehor
Gatt Archi
Per Strickland
John GuTett
Thomas Bowyer Bower
Carr Ueresford
Alexander Lope
George Hobart
William Beruiker
Gad Wi
Bankrupts and Dividends in London Guildhall Notices
A long list of bankrupts surrendering on Feb 8 and 15 with hearings at Guildhall. Debtors include Richard Jackson haberdasher of Oxford Street and others. divisions, dividends, and certificates follow for tradesmen across London and other towns, with dates and venues such as the Bath Tavern Bristol and the Great Black Bull Inn Wakefield. Names include Walter Largent Andrew Foster John Geffard and more, with professions from hatter to mercer and shopkeeper.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard Jackson
Oxford
Guildhall
Macquillen
Lyon’s Inn
James Smith
Coventry-street
Roan
Andrew Veziam
Gould-square
William Eames
Bath
David Fraser
Brewer-street
Sadler
Thomas Thorley
Lombard-street
Waxchandler
John Pearfall
Benjamin Pearfall
London
John Garraty
Fith-street Hill
John Quilter
St.Osyth
Philip Baker
Tothill-street
Westminster
Jon Duke
Bolton Upon Dearne
County of York
Great Black Bull Inn
Wakefield
Royal Week in London Delights and Disorder
A noon levee at St James's followed by a Privy Council report on death sentences at Newgate. Crown events include a Board of Ordnance in Old Palace Yard and a grand dinner at St James's for nobility and officers. Gossip covers Cambridges, Harcourt and Burlington House votes, canal and postal news, a winter ice crossing, a lavish ball with light shows, and remarks on quartering soldiers plus theatrical chatter and a Bath robbery mystery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. James’s
Newgate
Board of Ordnance
Old Palace Yard
Ew Palace
Buckingham House
Duke of Clarence
St. James's
Lord Cuancerror
Miss Tourtons
Lord Kenyon
Lincoln's Inn-Fields
Cavendish Square
Earland Countess of Harcourty
Burlington House
General Post Office
New York
Halifax
Dillon
Falmouth
Westminster
Palmer
Liverpool
Defamation case over coiners and a mare identity
In an 18th century defamation trial Hyams sues Rachel Levi for calling him a coiner and thief with alleged heated remarks. The Mare dispute centers on ownership, with witnesses tracing a horse docked tail and marks, and several buyers tracing the mare through Horncastle Fair to the defendant. Lord Kenyon’s direction influenced the verdict, and the jury awarded the plaintiff.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rachel Levi
King
Brody
Lord Kenyon
Ar. Erfeine
Devonshire
London
Michaelmas Laft
Blackfriars Road
Otober
Michaelmas
Mr. Bearcroft
Mr. Redford
Horncattle Fair
Fisher
White
Redford
Campbell
Mr. White
Lord Renyor
Raid on Mountmelick mansion shocks town and arrests two
In the early hours of the 16th, three men broke into Henry Maudsley’s sickbed home at Mountmelick. They tied a woman, rifled pockets, and demanded money and valuables before escaping. Two suspects Smullen and Sheercroft were captured after a fierce confrontation with Mr. Farleton Johnson. a third accomplice is pursued as villagers recover from the assault. The injured woman and aged host remain under care.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Maudsley
Mountmelict
Smullen
Sheercroft
Farlton Johnson
Kileigh
King’s County
Johnson
Mouwntmelick
Balance of power and peacable Europe urged in old affair
The text debates European equilibrium as the basis for lasting peace, notes laughter at Ismael amid Turkish decline, cites French patriots in India and Europe, and mocks political theatrics on Sunday. It reports fires on the Orton at Barbadoes, a Weymouth to Plymouth boat rescue, forged Worcester Bank notes, convicts from Chelmsford, and a Strand fire at Round Court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Europe
Erubalony
Ismael
India
Chandernagore
Grand Committee
Jockey Club
Whift
Hovi
BossBoxt
Portsmouth
Plymouth
Weymouth
Cauttoy
Worcester Bank
Drummond's
Joseph Berwick Wall
Hauck
Thomas Waxtt
C. Hopkins
Chelmsford Gear
Woolwich
Botany Bay
the Old Bailey
Secretary of State
Goaler
Chelmsford
Round Court
Strand
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Edward Robinson
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David Hunter
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Willam Belford
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Robert Donald
Jearme Fox Bruce
David Erskine
Archibald Butter
Suord Blayney
Richard L Mer
William Law Dundas
Ronale Rerguson
Robert Payne
George Carnegie
William Halton
Rowland
David Oswald
Irving Brock
Steuart Trotter
G. Lauder
J. Chritic
R. G. Elrington
Queteville
Andrew Foster
Alexander M. Donnell
John Geffard
Iun
Walter Largent
Thomas Morley
Rye
Sussex
Joha Cole
Watford
Philip Constable
Birmingham
Thomas Row
Newcastle Upon Tyne
Wiliam Ueeks, the Younger
Great Bolton
County of
Lancaster
John Brannan
Manchester
Lord Sydney
Luggerthall
George Selly
Paris
Hyams
Levi
Bortass
Ireland
Dusrin
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