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London Sessions Hear Assault Case and Tax on Spirits
The report recounts Lane Elys chairing a Middlesex court where a man was fined 3s 4d and sentenced to eight months hard labor for assaulting Richard Budd, a St. Giles headborough, while rescuing a condemned drink seller. It notes other cases of spiritous liquor offences, convictions, penalties, and requests for tax changes to curb drunkenness. It includes letters from Paris and Vienna on military actions and a stock market summary.
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Elys
Richard Budd
Headborough
St. Giles In the Fields
House of Correction
Clerkenwell
Middlesex
His Majesty
Jane Gospell
Conduit-street
St. George
Hanover-square
Elizabeth Sayer
Little Marlborough-street
St. James’s
Elizabeth Vincent
the Willow Walk
Mary Nunn
Brown-street
Joseph Oliver
James-street
St. Paul
Govent- Garden
Torhill-fields
Elizabeth Cocks
Marlborough-Row
Commissioners of
Excise
Justices of the Peace
City and Liberty
Westminster
Abraham Draper
St. Clement’s Dance
Elizabeth Bowman
St. Margaret’s
Anne Williamson
St. Martin’s In the Fields
Anne Price
St. Clement’s Danes
Col. de Veil
Tothillfields Bridewell
Bowman
Customghouse
East- India Company
Guarda Costas
Bruch
Deptford
Spain
Rhine
Vienna
Lerfchner
Ufitza
Fign Ir
Transilvania
Ragorzky
Hazeg
Lobkowitz
Count Tekeley
Bethleem
de Lazar
Kemny
Thorodicay
Szigkaggy
Josieka
Karefa
Anglice Iffop
Caribourg
Hermanstadt
Count Lekendorff
Prince Ragotzky
Petto
Constantinople
Asia
Bashan
Babilon
Porte
Ottoman Empire
Forman
South Sea
India
Royal Exchange Assurance Tag
London
Prem
Ditto
Mine Adventure
Empeyer’s
Exchequer