Parliament News and Local Incidents of 1748
A broad 1748 report lists candidates and elections for various seats including St Germain's in Cornwall and Montgomery, plus Scots and English peers, with deaths of Viscount Hereford and the Bishop of London. It notes orders to fit out apartments in Somerset House for the Prince Stadtholder and a royal grant to disbanded soldiers. Court actions report fines and humiliations for Oxford students, robberies near Stamford Hill, a Foxhall marriage in Lincoln's Inn Chapel, and multiple deaths including Wolfe of Barnet and Mrs Leicester of Bond Street. It also covers bankrupcies, weather notes, and a wide trove of local notices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Corbett
Ludlow
William Whitmore
Guards
Henry Harpur
Tamworth
Richard Fliot
St. Germain
Cornwall
Richard Arundel
Elas
Clark
Pipe
Thomas Frankland
Thirske
William Herbert
Montgomery
William Henley
Lynne
Edward Hawke
Bath
Portsmouth
William Maitland
Aberdeen
Scotland
James Oswald
CIA
Fife
John Ligonier
Alh
Viscount Hereford
Lord Monton
London
Richard Elliot
Lord Edgecombe
Thomas
Peterborough
Rathbone Place
Earl of Buckinghamshire
St. James’s Square
Richard Brown
Trinity College
Oxford
Anthony Carr
Silfton
Nottingham
York
Admiralty Office
Admiral Knowles
Jamaica
Deptford
St. George
Wadding
East India
Erith
Aurora
Cork
Newfoundland
Canada
Guildhall
John Whitmore
James Dawes
King’s Bench Bar
Westminster
King’s Bench
Westminster Hall
Gray’s Inn Lane
Gatehouse
James Fraser
Grosvenor Square
Lincoln’s Inn Chapel
John Barnes
Aldgate
Elizabeth Taylor
Old Fith-street
Edmund Parker
Little Brook-freet
Church-Court St. Martin’s
Wolfe
Barnet
Joseph Wolfe
Little Chelsea
Earl of Verney
Walbrook
Samuel,Swinhne
Reward for catching coin filers in Kingdom current guineas
Whitehall September 15 1748 Lords Justices offer a generous reward and royal pardon to anyone who helps detect and convict those involved in filing and diminishing the kingdom’s guineas including Hugh Coffy and his alleged accomplices who have fled. The reward exceeds statutory amounts and aims to seize all conspirators.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Whitehall
Hugh Cofty
Newgate
Portugal
Coffy
J. Potter
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Hamburgh Merciat
Thomas Seamen
Knt
Alderwyn
Cornhill
Laft
Poplar
Sarrant Glanvil
Excise
King Street
Nelthrope
Bond-street
Leicester
Hughes
Gracechurch-street
Thomas Maflen
Devizes
Wiltshire
John Honeyman
New-York
Richard Sutton
Lothbury
Scrivener
Tower
Lords Justices
Samuel Davies
West Smithfield
Wrexham
Leverpool
Bryan Duff
Mary Dean
Harrison
Margaret Rutherford
Ireland
Clarges Street
Piccadilly
Charles Street
St. James’s
Red Lion
Golden Square
Cheshire
Dublin
Green-Arbour-Court
Moorfields
Bow- Lane
Cheapside
Mary Foster
Robert ‘Rutherford
Fabn Lagonier
Temple-Bar
Bow-Lane
Fountaine Cook
Vajerty’s Mint
Clement’s Inn
Ludgate-Hill
Ashley
Coe
Batavia
Spain
Ably and Co
J. Ashley
Exchange Coffee
Bristol
St. Barbara
St. Fagna
Jof. Buckley
William Hunt
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Letki
J. Ward
Little
Britain
Gil Blas de Santillane
Monsieur LE Sage
Nourfe
Catherine-street
Strand
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Hobbes
Pufferdorf
Barbeyrac
Locke
Hutchinson
J.J. Burlamaqui
Geneva
Mr. Nugent
J. Nourse
Katherine-street
Prince of Wales
Lois Day
Puolijes
Oétavo
Phalaris
Thomas Francklin
Trinity College, Cambridge
R. Francklyn
Ruffel-Street
Covent-Garden
R. Dodsley
Pall-Mall