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Prologue trouble and war news fill a bustling London night
The scene shifts between a stressed prompter and actor Weston as talk of delivering a new prologue unfolds. A mid-18th century press column then layers in dispatches from Silistria and Danube fronts, suggesting Russian and Turkish clashes, political moves, and royal finances. Nearby items report shipboard accidents, a Tyburn execution recounted with penitence, and a flurry of local accidents, deaths, and social notices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Danube
Silistria
Silificsa
Grand Visir
Warsaw
Count de Romanzow
Poland
Brofel
Duguf
Hague
Minorca
Henry Schomberg
Constantinople
Baron Zegntz
Porte
Petersburgh
Count Orlow
Paris
Bucharest
Adetter
Venice
asWe
Dolgoruky
Crimea
Crim Gueray
Dublin
Gardener
Leslie
Bagnelle
Dawson
distin@ion
King’s Head Inn
Enfield
Humphrey Bickley, Bart
Aidleburgh
Norfolk
Samuel
Bapchild
Kent
Bickley
Bickleigh
Devonshire
Francis Bickley
London
Draper
Attleburgh-hall
Charles II
George Stoll
Customs
Blackwall
Stepney
Poplar
Deptford
Waltford
Virginia
Rotherhithe
Steelmar
Oxford-street
Leonard
Tyburn
Newgate
Temple
Byron
2D Regiment
3D Regiment
Lord Chewton
Lord Waldegrave
Buckley
Montlieu
Egerton
Wafey
eCapt. Timms
Lieut. Barlow
Capt
Timms
Cornet Morris
Caleb Hill
Catharine Hall
Cambridge
Cecil Earl of Salisbury
Clothhall
Baldock
County of Hertford
Diocese of
Lincoln
Per Arinum