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Resignations and court notices amid public affairs
The Earl of Carlisle resigns as Constable of the Tower, succeeded by the Earl of Lincoln. Talbot appoints Sharpe as Archdeacon of Northumberland. Speaker Spencer-Compton is indisposed. Mutineer Horse Grenadiers see pardon for three. Wallington to be whipped and expelled. Windsor vicar Dawson marries at St Paul’s. MP John Fermor dies of smallpox. Marked by executions, stock prices, and a flood of advertisements for books, funerals, and medical remedies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Earl of
Carlisle
Tower
Earl of Lincoln
Talbot
Durham
Sharpe
Archbishop of
York
Northumberland
Spencer-Compton
House of Commons
Matthias Barbary
Parnasius
Wallington
King’s Meadows
Maidstone
Dawson
Windsor
St. Paul’s Cathedral
Jacob
Duke of Chandosne
John Fermor
Malmsbury
Edmund Neale
William Pincher
Tyburn