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Widow Archdeacon Billingsley dies. Surrey society mourns
The Rev. Mr. Billingsley Archdeacon of Surrey dies early this week and is to be succeeded by the Rev. Mr. Pord, Vicar of Farnhampe. A Westminster School boy is jailed for stabbing a fellow pupil with a penknife. both lads wounded. The Lady Lisburn’s corpse buried near her father Sir John Bennet at Wittam Essex. The Dean of St Asaph resigns his Living to his son. The True Briton publisher bailed at the Secretary's Office to appear at King's Bench next term. Several persons take oaths under the late Parliament act. Captain Willard arrives in the Downs from Jamaica, reporting piracy and plunder. The York Buildings Company prospects discussed, and the Bishop of Winchester gravely ill at Farnham Castle. Stock prices and public notices listed. various auctions and racing plates announced. A biography of Dr Francis Atterbury is published.