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Storm Dissolves Birds And Lightning Strikes Surrey
Reports recount a violent storm from Mile-End Grove to Walton upon Thames where winds battered trees killing hundreds of sparrows and a woman died from lightning. Other items note church repairs, arrests for liquor selling, ship sightings near the Azores, and the South Sea stock movement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lady Lake’s
Walton Upon Thames
Surrey
Frances
Harrow
Handel
Hodsdon
County of Hertford
Edward Leigh
Edward Lord Leigh
Mary
Thomas Holbeech
Fillongly
County of Warwick
St. Sepulchre’s
Japhet Bird
St. Christopher’s
Bristol
Azores
Ja Vera Crux
Cadiz
Exeter
Dennis
Topsham
Plymouth
Drummond
Betty
Egleston
Nevis
Joshua Forster
Friendship
Kew Lane
Richmond
Clement’s Lane
Selwin
Robert Jessop
Charles Parrot
Newgate
Col. de Veil
Joseph Cock
Carnaby-street
Ber