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Crowd watches impaled man as New Year splendor unfolds
A crowded scene near Bow Church shows a man being impaled alive amid crowd excitement. Royal greetings flow from St James's and Bow Church as the year begins with sermons, noble entertainments, and plans for urban improvement including a proposed Lincolns Inn Fields church and a public lecture scheme.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. James’s
Bow Church
Societies For Reformation of
Mapplethorp
Charles Duncomb
Goldsmithsall
Church of England
Fountain
Earl of Torrington
Lord Spencer
Earl of Marlborough
Weedon
Lincolns-ton
Lincolns-Inn-Fields
Iwo
St. Mary's
St. Giles’s
James Knapten
St. Paul's Church- Yard
HSCS
Barns Common
Putney