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Chronological Diary Notes of Court and City Events
Entries recount December sessions at the Old Bailey with sentences for highway robbery felony and related crimes. transportations and punishments follow, plus mercers electing a new schoolmaster. Also mentions South Sea Company address to the King, Cambridge librarian appointment, and noble deaths with succession. A proclamation on hides and skins import duties closes the notes.
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Edward Cordell
John Cordell
Old Baily
Nathaniel Haws
John Jones
James Wright
Robert Walton
Samuel Laws
George Baker
Graves
Irthur Gray
Company of Mercers
Robert Swinburn
Baxter
de Puty
South Sea Company
South Sea
Middleton
University of Cambridge
Lord George Manners
John Manners
Duke of Rutland
Richard Lum Ye
Scarborough
Biron
Visconne
Lumley