Pickpockets, counterfeit passes, and a wool trade collapse
A London-wide report details counterfeit coin and seals tied to a Buckinghamshire cattle loss of 176 cows and five cattle, with proceeds from forged passes. Concurrently a notorious pickpocket, a cabinet-maker robbed in Golden Square, and multiple deaths and bankruptcies are noted including Petrus Rysbrack and James Wood.
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Buckinghamshire
London
Thomas Obrien
Timothy Gibbard
Sheldon
King-street
Golden Square
Southgate Chapel
Isaac Akerman
Fenchurch-street
Mills Harding
Edmonton
Southampton-Street
Bloomsbury
Petrus Andreas Rysbrack
Palmer
Winchester College
Theodore van Reeden
Wardour Street
Soho
Ames Wood
the Duke of Cumberland
Broomhall
Fleet-Market
Abingdon Meeting Urges Thames Navigation Act Seekers
A gathering at the New Inn Abingdon Berks on September 26 resolves to petition Parliament in the next Session for an Act to regulate Thames navigation. A Reading meeting on November 19 at the King's Arms is announced to guide the bill with input from interested counties and boroughs.
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Abingdon
Berks
London Evening Post
Thames
Surcott
Oxford
Reading
King’s Arms
Surry
Middlesex
Bucks
Gloucester
Wilts
Mint Office Guineas Plots At London Tower Mint Alarm
Divers at Egon Desfone have practiced filing guineas. Lords Justices offer a 100 pound reward to anyone who apprehends offenders. Samuel Davies and Joseph Mapham absconded surrender details and descriptions provided. Several others named for involvement, with full descriptions and last known whereabouts. Appeals to Mr. Fountaine Cook at Clement's Inn, London for information or arrest.
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Tower of London
Egon
Desfone
Lords Justices
Samuel Davies
Joseph Mapham
West Smithfield
Wrexham
Leverpool
Thime
Oxfordshire
German Street
St. James’s
Forlepih Mapham
Newgaite Market
Portugal
Bryan Duff Mary Dean
Harrison
Margaret Rutherford
Bryan Duff
Ireland
Clarges Street
Piccadilly
Charles Street
Red Lion
King Street
Golden Square
Mary Dean
Cheshire
Dublin
Green-Arbour-Court
Moorfields
Bow- Lane
Cheapside
Afary Foffer
Treland
Robert Rutherford
Farleph Mapham
Fountaine Cook
His Majesty’s Mint
Clement’s Inn
London
Pardon Offered for Forthcoming Gold Filers and Guineas Scheme
Whitehall September 15 1743 Lords Justices promise the King’s pardon to anyone revealing accomplices in the alleged gold filers at Newgate on September 6 and in spreading false reports. A reward of one hundred pounds is offered, plus any Parliament approved sum, for apprehending those involved in filing and diminishing the kingdom’s current coin.
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Whitehall
Hugh Corry
Newgate
Portugal
Coffy
Potter
Reward for return of Navy ticket aboard Princess Caroline
Ten days ago a Pocket-Book ticket for the Wg s of Edward Fitzgerald on board His Majesty's Ship the Princess Caroline, No. 165, was stolen near Gravel-Lane and Tower Hill. Whoever returns the ticket to Mr. Crosby, Seething Lane, near the Navy Office, London, will receive two guineas. Payment kept at Chatham. If not produced within a week, the Navy Board will be asked for a bond.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gravel-Lane
Tower Hill
Edward Fitzgerald
J.S
Crosby
Navy Office
London
Chaham
Navy Board
Despatches From London and Cambridge Daily Life Reports
London supplement notes the king yielding on ports for M d Arnimb and the minister’s retirement. Vienna reports an Ottoman ambassador leaving with guards and funds to Constantinople. Cambridge elected Dr Chapman as chancellor. A Goodwin Sands ship nears the Downs. A Droitwich right to elect burgesses ends in Bromley’s favor. Oundle hosts a dancing assembly. Mr Brett marries in Hereford. John Pollexfen dies at Mothecombe. Market and bond prices quoted: Bank stock, South Sea, annuities, and copper shares.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
M. d’Arnimb
Vienna
Constantinople
Kollowrath
Count de Soyer
Semlin
Ottoman Empire
Chapman
Magdalen College
Cambridge
Goodwin Sands
Depa
King’s Bench
Westminster
Hull
Lee
William Bromley
Droitwich
Worcestershire
Oundle
Hereford
Brett
Eakley
Mothecombe
Plymouth
Devon
John Pollexfen
Deal
Murray
Virginia
India
Royal Afffurance
London Assurance
Prem
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John Bowes
Kendall
Westmorland
Mercer and Chapman
Richard Grainger
Puddle-Dock-Hill
George Sleath
East Barnet
Hertfordshire
Bedfordshire
Goldsmith
Whitfeld
Whitfield-Hall
Owston
Great Owston
Northumberland
Walfingham
County of Durham
County of Durham, Call’d Ballafide, Wrenns-Close, Balfield
Bridge-End
Garth
Scrabbs-Garth
Mathew Whitfield
Robert Whitfield
Deceas
Anthony Wilkinson
Robert Wharton
Durham
Elgis
N.B
Robert Ridley
Mathew Dawson
Wisdom
Ecclesiasicus
God
Chillingworth
John and
James Rivington
Bible and
St. Paul’s Church
Buntham
W. Owen
Homer’s Head
Temple Bar
Mr. Locke
Thessalonians
Timothy Titus
St. James
J. Noon
A. Miller
Strand
J. Davidson
R. King
Forest
M. Cooper
Paternofter Row
J. Robinson
Ludgate-street
Poerhaave
Leyden
Edward Strother
Bible
St. Paul's Church
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