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Grand Council and Naval Movements Shape Early Week
A grand council met at the Cockpit on important affairs. Mon next the Pay Office in Winehall will issue clearings for his Majesty's forces across Britain Flanders Minorca Gibraltar and the Plantations. Dispensations appoint clergy and church livings while naval assignments name officers and voyages to Holland Newfoundland and Jamaica. Fire at Henry Finch’s Whitehall house was contained. a shoemaker died in Oxford Road after heavy drinking. Public executions and burials are noted in York Ipwich and London. several notable deaths and interments are listed in various places.
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Cockpit
Great Britain
Flanders
Minorca
Gibraltar
York
James Cannon
St. Peter’s
Richmond
William Hemmington
Lord
Westminster
George Bentinck
Duke of Portland
William and Mary
Wolfe
Lord Bury
Earl of Ancram
George Sackville
Col. Conway
Holland
Admiralty
Charles Watson
Sir Charles Wager
Newfoundland
St. Michael, Wall
Jamaica
Portsmouth
Oxford Road
Geneva
St. Patrick
Mr. Herbert
Herbert
Edward Equal
Iliam Bingley
John
St. Edmund’s Bury
Pettit
Keys
Ipwich
William Wharrier
William Stevens
Francis Hill
John Parkes
Samuel Chilvers
Robert Scott
Newgate
Wexford
Ireland
Wintringham
White Lion
Clare-Market
Geary
St. Clement’s Danes
Charles King
St. Paul’s Cathedral
Spring Garden
Southwell
Edward Southwell
City of
Bristol