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London News: Treasurers, Executions, Stock Quotes, and Auctions
London reports vast changes and events including Stephen Ponnitz named Joint Treasurer of the Excise replacing Edward Pauncefort, Lord Cornwallis’s marriage, naval orders to Portsmouth ships reduced to guard duties, and the Dutchess Dowager of Orleans death. Also court trials for libel, adjourned juries, Oxford Master election, and prominent deaths. Stock prices quote South Sea, Bank, India, African, Royal Exchange, and Lloyds. Notices advertise a Sons of the Clergy feast, and upcoming sales of art, furniture, and curiosities with catalogues available.
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London
Stephen Ponnitz
The
Excise
Edward Pauncefort
Lord Cornwallis
Viscount Townshend
Edward Arnold
Portsmouth
Spithead
Yarmouth
Ipswich
Bredah
Essex
Chatham
Torbay
Nassau
Medway
France
Orleans
St. Cloud
N. S
Samuel Redmayne
King’s Bench
Hanover
Rumford
India
Oxford
University College
Charlett
Hambledon
Kendrick
Thomas Rouse
Middlesex
Thomas Clarges
John Cotton
Westminster
Lord Carpenter
Charles Mountague
Marshalsea
York- Buildings
Royal Exchange
London Aflurance