Notable Misfortunes and Crimes Logged in London Area
Reported incidents include a fatal accident aboard a barge during a gale near Great Iitaroo, a fall from scaffolding injuring a bricklayer in Hedge-Lane, and a barn fire at Teddington in Surrey suspected of arson. Also noted are smuggling arrests at Hithh and Newgate, a watch and money robbery on Bishopsgate Street, and deaths of River Inspector Thomas Erith and Secretary Frederick Zoleman. The Chandois Sloop captain died after a vault accident in Covent Garden, with calls for safety diligence, plus a London distiller’s bankruptcy and other minor felonies and losses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iitaroo
Jatt
Thomas Metcalf
Barrel
Hedge-Lane
St. Martin’s Church
Westsmnster Infirmary
Harwood
Teddington
Surry
Cobham
James Miller
Hithh
Kent
Maidstone
Newgate
Ool
Bishopsgate-street
Devonshire Square
Mr. Black
East Smithfield
Moses Mendez de Costa
Salvadore
Highgate
Islington
da Costa
New-Prison
Greenwich
Thomas Erith
St. James’s Street
Frederick Zoleman
Duke of Cumberland
Thomas Kilham
Jnn
Covent Garden
Richard Seagood
Shoreditch
London Gazette
William Manning
City of Norwich
Meeting at Truro School for sermon and dinner
The notice invites gentlemen educated at Virginia to meet at the Truro School House on Thursday, September 1 at ten in the forenoon. They will proceed to the church for a sermon and then a meal will be provided as usual.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Truro
Rik
Onon
Samuel Clarke
St.James’s
Westminster
J. and
P. Knapton
Ludgate-street
D. D
Samuel Carle
Bogie
Dr. Clarke
Ottavo
Pr. Clarke
Whitton
Fleet-Street
Bihop
Holborn
Auction sale of prize cargo at Bristol Exchange Coffee-House
Sale by auction at the Exchange Coffee-House Bristol offers cargoes from ships St John te Baptit and St Blaze taken from Alexandria Tripoli and Cyprus. Items include 29 bags of Afhkesome 76 bales cheveron goats wool coffee and drugs such as cafe gum galbanum gum tragacynth 2 bales cotton yarn and more. Catalogues by Jam Hunt broker Mr Underwood Cooper Water Lane near the Custom House. Also offered hogsheads of Caracao cocoa nuts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Exchange Coffee
Bristol
Constantine
Alexandria
Tripoli
Cyprus
N. B
Duke to depart for Harwich amid plans to disband troops
London dispatch reports the Duke will leave Eyndhoven on Saturday if winds permit and reach Harwich by evening or tomorrow at latest. He will make a brief stay in England before returning to the army to arrange troop disbandment. Commodore Pocock leads the Sutherland and other ships seen near the Foreland under convoy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Markam
Wortley
Horwood
Thomas Whorwood
Denton
Kent
London
Duke
Eyndhoven
Harwich
England
Deal
Pocock
Sutherland
Hland
Great Man Lowendahl and Public Riot Trials at Stafford
A compressed history of Count Lowendahl with Danish lineage and imperial service, then a Stafford Assizes report on Joseph Lixdale and others for rioting and damaging William Chetwynd's house during an election. It notes convictions for several rioters after Crown concessions, and mentions a Duke of Bedford incident, a London versus Berks cricket match, and stock and corn prices with coastal naval movements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Count Lowendahl
Poland
Saxony
Wademar
Tordenschild
Dresden
Count Seckendorf
Vienna
Count Starembere
Himelf
Temelwaer
Belgrade
Sicily
Corsica
King Augustus
Cracow
Stanislaus
Eugene
Rhine
Russia
Count Saxe
Stafford
Justice Burnet
Joseph Lixdale
William Chetwynd
John Robins
Council For
Chetwynd
Council For the Crown
Ie Tuy
London
Berks
Deal
West India
Downs
Worcester
Also Mentioned on This Page
John Phipps
Mercer
Mr. Price
William W Nourfe
Nailsworth
Gloucester
Nourfe
Neathaniel Webb, Sha Fowler, John Sloper
Elzevir
Roluiw
John and
Page Knapton
Ludgate
Acct
John Mason
A.M
R. Helt
Foultry
J. Buckland
Pater noster-Row
J. Waugh
J. Waugh, At the ‘Turk’s Head In Gracechurch Street
M. Cooper
The
Globe
Pater-noster-Row
R. Cy
Middle Temple
Royal Exchange
Temple-Bar
Charing. Cross
Charles
Charles II
William Knapp
Henry VII
King’s Chapel
St. Paul’s
Westminster Abbey
R. Baldwin
Rofein
Wuumlueisy
Blandford
Ireena
Petras
India
Royal Assurance
London Assurance
Prem
Prom
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