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Multiple tragic accidents and society notices in 1747 edition
A Tuesday fall in St James's Park breaks a gentleman's leg. A woman dies after stepping on a soundboard at Mrs Galli's benefit opera while three children lose their mother. A workman breaks a leg pulling down an alehouse floor. A coachman dies after a skull fracture from a drunken fall. A secretary's messenger brings a three month sentence for Mr Macdonald. Marriages, births, and nobility notices follow, including the Marquis of Powis succession, and several deaths. Navy auction notices, a bankrupt, and local births and burials are listed alongside Berks county affairs.
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St. James’s Park
Fleet-Street
Broad-street
Southwark
Macdonald
Well-close-square
John Bienary
Seething-lane
Christiana Smith
Deptford
Daniel Boon
Stockbridge
Bond-street
William Herbert
Earl of
Powis
Viscount Montgomery
Baron
Sir Edward Herbert
William Earl of Pembroke
Marquis
Marquis of
James II
France
Mary Cornwallis
John Cornwallis
Axeyard
Westminster
Edward Legg
Froxfield
Wiltshire
Dealer and