Charity Accounts of St Pauls Choir Money Distribution
The 1746 report lists funds from St Pauls Choir and Merchant Taylors Hall feasts totaling 9221 pounds 10s 6d. It details payments to numerous tradespeople and widows for aiding poor clerks and apprentices, with many named beneficiaries and places across London and beyond. A separate item notes military news from Bergen op Zoom about Duke of Cumberland and French actions near Hulst, plus rebel prisoners and Carlisle Liverpool transport notes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Haye
St. Paul’s
Merchant- Taydors-Hall
Ces
Bergen-op-Zoom
Duke of Cumberland
Westmalen
Antwerp
Count Saxe
Scheld
Hulst
Dutch Flanders
Altosgether
Rillag
Sandberg
Royal Scots
Brig
Ous
Thierry
van Heukelem
Burman
Conrady
Lowendahl
York
Secretary of State
Bland
Liverpool
Carlisle
War Dispatches Front Genoa Siege Roads and Plundered Fortifications
Reports from April and May describe Count Schulembourg preparing heavy artillery routes for Genoa siege, rock blasting to clear movement, English ships captured with hundreds of sailors, and military redeployments to Cannes and Brabant. Marshal Saxe seeks 20,000 men via Humay. preparations against a Dutch Republic invasion continue. A letter from Prince d Orange to Zeeland authorities offers dutiful service and readiness to defend the province.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cannes
Paris
Brabant
Duke de Belleisle
Versailles
Provence
Nice
Liege
Marshal Saxe
Humay
Maestricht
St. Pierre
Brussels
Vreenhowe
Adiddbourg
National misfortunes progress notice in London
Fragmentary item from a London column notes the bloated Beat and a ferrennial progress over the land with a formal notice of nationwide issues. The prose is archaic and incomplete, reflecting a dated newspaper style and unclear specifics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
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John Woolcombe
Cheney
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Dawid Tamse
Stephen Light Mott
James Stephens
Ralph Bridge
Alexander Mackrabie
William Smythies
WY Didn Clarke
John Miller
Anthony MacCullock
Old Soho
Mary Pearce
Mary Lefebvre
Spital Fields
Charles Woodford
Thomas Baxter
Wallbrook
Elizabeth Scott
Mrs. Wells
Paternoster Row
William Frintham
Paul Tubb
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John Gwinne
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Eyet
Elizabeth Fawcett
Mary Jackson
Brampton
Simon Heat
Harvey Appleby
Walden
Roger Simkinson
John Durghey
Humphry Edwards
Thomas Owen
Denbigh
Apothecary
Jane Long
Anne Long
Litchfield
Nonneniy Aise Elizabeth Boultbee
Mary Boultbee
Derby
Reenineeie
Christian Blyth
Elizabeth Blyth
Ipswich
Mantua
John Barry
Warren Adams
Cambridge
Cook
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Mary’Symes
Southampton
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Penelope Bennett
Elizabeth Gold
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Elizabeth Evance
Jane Adams
Leominster
Thomas Lewis
Gabriel Lewis
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Charity Shepherd
Ludlow
Elizabeth Wilkins
Johanna Pyntent
Chudleigh
Devon
Lizay Twycross
Anne Bliss
Oxford
Joseph Clark
Peter la Coste
Foster-Lane
Anne Howe
Eleanor Murphee
Westminster
Frances Perry
Susanna Robins
Birmingham
Thomas Furton
Benjamin Cole
Merchant-Taylor
Elizabeth Priscilla Key
Sarah Holmes
Frances. Woodhan
Isabella Caffon
Charles Bishop
Edward Guett
Jatin Jones
Hay
Sarah Weaver
Mary Weaver
Olave’s
Elizabeth Oakley
Elizabeth Wakefield
Leicester
Thomas Lomas
William Taylor
Backwell, Currier
Canterbury
Mary Salmon
Elizabeth Bennet
Whitchurch
la Roque
Council of State
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Kieldrecht
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Villars
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