Packet of London News Admits Shipwreck and Crimes
A waterman drowns after a squall near Blakwall Point while a French passenger survives and is cared for at Blackwall. Later, Hyde Park area robbers strike a Hammersmith carpenter and a Kensington butcher, wounded and robbed before capture and remand to Newgate. Additional notices include pickpocketing, a burglary, and ship losses from Bailey to Port. Reports from abroad describe Arab sieges in Baferraw and a Portuguese loss. Stock quotes and disease tallies wrap the week.
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Woolwich
West Indies
Blakwall Point
Blackwall Stairs
Watermens Arms
Blackwall
Hammersmith
Kensington
London
Hyde Park Wall
Knightsbridge
Foot-Guards
Dolphin
Justice Vincent
Newgate
Elizabeth Kidd
Col. de Veil
St. Giles’s
Dock
James Mayham
Clousingar
Charing-Criofs
Joseph Carey
Justice Poulson
Mr. Hanks
Baferraw
England
France
Portugal
Angria
Lydia
Luciania
Ladd
St. Kit’s
Margate
Hispaniola
Notice of Road Survey Meeting by Trustees in Kent
The Committee of Trustees for repairing the Roads near Stones End Kent Street Southmark to Lime Kilns East Greenavich near Black Heath and to Dartford along with routes to Bermondsey Street Waterings meets Monday next at the Catherine Wheel Shooter's Hill at ten in the forenoon.
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Kent-street
Shooter’s-Hill
Creditors of George Abington Requested To Settle Debts
Ene creditors of George Abington late of Sherborn in the county of Dorser are required to send an account of their debts to Samuel Napper or Charles Yeatman of Sherborn as soon as possible.
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George Abington
Sherborn
Esso m Assembly May Meeting Tickets Nominal Prices
The EPSOM ASSEMBLY announces a seven day May meeting urged by nobility and gentry. Tickets cost half a crown daily with a Guinea subscription granting two tickets per day. The Assembly opens Saturday before the meeting and bans dancing in the Great Room below, allowing dances only in the Pall Room to prevent disorder.
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Epsom Assembly
N. B
Leeuw
Meeting of Creditors for Charles Griffith's Estate at The King's Arms
Creditors of Charles Griffith late of Bedfordbury Middlesex meet his widow and administratrix Mrs Mary Griffith on Monday 16th at three o'clock in the afternoon at the King's Arms Tavern Hungerford Market Strand to prepare instruments for administration and settle debts. All persons indebted to the estate must pay promptly or face suit.
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Charles Griffith
Bedfordbury
St. Marcin
Middlesex
Joyner
Deceas
King’s Arms
Hungerford Market
Strand
Mary Griffith
Bookbinder Olive Payne estate debtors named
II persons indebted to the estate of Olive Payne of Round-Court in the Strand are summoned to pay to assignees Charles Davis and Andrew Millar or to Thomas Owens at the King’s Bench Office. Nonpayment will lead to legal action.
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Olive Payne
Round-Court
Strand
Forthwich
Charles Davis
Pager-notter-Row
London
Bookfeller
Andrew Millar
Clement
The
Temple
Ano
Debtors Urged to Pay Estates of Willis and Eadwell
Creditors of Richard Eadwell of Southampton Buildings must demand debts to Charles Fleewood Samuel Peirson Basil Herne or pay to the estate administer John Willis via John Vowell of Warling Street. John Willis trust debts to creditors require payment before May second or be sued. deed of composition to be executed or creditors risk exclusion.
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Richard Eadwell
Southampton Buildings
Chancery-lane
Charles Fleewood
Lincoln’s-Inn-Fields
Samuel Peirson
Golden Head
Bow-street
Covent-Garden
Basil Herne
Pater-noster-Row
London
Ohn Willis
Jare
Tower-street
Lon _ don
Stationer
Deceas
Haying
John Vowell
Warring-street
John Willis
Cheréof
Mr. Lough
Monument Yard
Will witnesses sought for missing lawyers at Lincoln's Inn
Webster Taylor and Charles Tinney witnesses to Richard Pawlet's will have moved unknown. They are asked to give notice to Mr. John Crofts at No 16 Lincoln's Inn or to inform where Taylor and Tinney may reside or where Crofts may be told. A reward is offered for those who aid.
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Lincoln’s Inn
Mr. Crofts
Webster Taylor
Charles Tinney
Runaway Robert Coxon sought for ten guineas reward
Catherine Mackender offers ten guineas to anyone proving the whereabouts or status of Robert Coxon of Fulbeck Lincolnshire or his death. Coxon, brother of William Goxon of Caythorpe, was last heard of about 6 to 19 years ago with a Gibraltar sighting ten years past. The notice asks living applicants to contact Mackender or prove death details for payout.
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Robert Coxon
Fulbeck
Lincoln
William Goxon
Caythorpe
Gibraltar
Catherine Mackender
Cathering Mackennotr
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Stockholm
Levant
Paris
É&C
N. S
Corsica
Roma
Monte-Maggiore
Gideon
Sardinia
de Maillebois
Petersburg
Munich
Vienna
de Zech
Erffa
Poland
Hungary
Sultzbach
Juliers
Bergues
Manheim
Francfort
Prussia
South Sea
Bank
Prem
India
Royal Exchange Assurance
John Hopkins
Fleet-street
Fleet-Bridge
Lim
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