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Maritime and Clerical Appointments and Local Crime Notes
The column records clerical promotions and appointments including Luke Gwynne to Brecknock Prebend and Matthew Robinson to Kirton Vicarage, with dispensation for Twelve-Minster and selonging chapels, plus Ludlow and Altheys rectories. It also notes a royal grant for Chief Engraver Tanner and India Company dispatches from Cape of Good Hope, along with a wide array of crime notes, executions, and local disturbances such as thefts, the pillory, and a brutal Farnley farm murder, interwoven with market prices and public notices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Holy Island
St. David’s
Church of Brecknock
Edward Lloyd
Luke Gwynne
Blandovery
Carmarthenshire
Mercers Company
Matthew Robinson
Kirton
Lincolnshire
Samuel Farrow
Deceas
Philip Rideout
Brian Cole
Ludlow
Salop
Hereford
John Whichcote
Altheys
Maxholme
Manley
Lincoln
John Sigismond Tanner
Holland
Kensington
Excise
Smithfield
John, Johnson
Francis Spiggot
Piggot
Piggot-Norton
Newate
Poulson
Henry Corner
King’s
Constantia Murrell
Thomas
Benjamin Watkins
Newgate
Gen Champion
Knt
Elizabeth Broadbridge
St. Lawrence Jewry
London
Tyburn
John Garr
Ingram
Gharing- Cross
Durham
Mulder
Gailylaw
Sedgfield
Wiz
John Charleton