Barbarous cruelty to two girls in Fleur de-Luce Court
Eyewitness accounts describe severe torture of two girls, aged thirteen and seventeen, confined in a cellar, starved, whipped, and chained by the mistress a midwife in Fleur de-Luce Court, Fetter-lane. The younger dying, discovery led to arrests. the master and eldest son implicated. a servant maid noticed bloody appearances and alerted the master.
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Fleur de-Luce Court
Fetter-lane
Hampstead
Appointment Moves in Irish and British Government
Intelligence from the Gazetteer notes Jenkinson Eig, once Secretary to Lord Bute at the Treasury, is named Secretary to Lord Townshend, now Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. Friday Mr Conway was kissed by the King on taking the post of Lieutenant-General of the Ordnance with salary of 3000 pounds per year and continues Secretary of State. He is to receive the first vacant regiment. Rumor says Lord Shelburne will resign. This week Lord Holland is to be made Earl, likely Earl of Rochester.
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Jenkinson
Eig
Lord Bute
Treasury
Lord Townshend
Ireland
Conway
Lord Shelburne
Lord Holland
Earl of
Rochester
Eyasnent
Paris
Bastile
Dukirk
Daniel Robinsons
Appleby
Westmoreland
John Ward
Senegambia
Lincoln's Inn Hall
Wickham
Hants
Edmund Toll
John Street
Street
the Duke of Cumberland
Knightsbridge
Williams
Oxford Road
Carrie
London
Overseer
Gloucester
Robert Jones
Matthews
Candicote
Samuel Williams
Elizabeth Woodcock
Hasfield
John Alder
Smyrna
Isles
Archipelago
Cumberland
Friendship
Plymouth
Franklin
Philadelphia
West Indies
Tortola
Mounthbay
Golb
W. R
Royal visit and reviews please Dutch royal circle
Yesterday arrived the Mail from Holland Paris July 31. Compiegne reports all foreign Ministers and nobility entertaining the Duke of York with the Royal Family. The Prince praised troops as fine and well disciplined and hopes never to see them except on the plain of Royal Lieu. Duel at Spa between Hook and Mr H. wound. renewal planned. Utrecht Car Hague Aug 6. Princess Wilhelmina of Prussia birthday marks grand 17th year celebrations. Stadtholder to host at Old Court. Baron Jacob-Arend de Warlenaer of Holland Noblesse died the day before yesterday.
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Holland
Paris
Compiegne
Duke of York
Hook
England
Spa
Utrecht
Hague
Wilhelmina
Prussia
Stadtholder
Arend Baron de Warlenaer
Noblesse of
Archbishops and Lord Howth named Great Seal commissioners
Dublin August 4 reports that the Archbishop of Dublin the Bishop of Cloyne and Lord Howth are appointed commissioners of the Great Seal in Chancery until a new Chancellor is named. Kilboreen Clare reports a jealous husband beat his wife with tongs and killed himself after her injuries. Also, Robert Barrow died in Bridewell Lane Cork aged about sixty.
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Reland Dublin
Dublin
Cloyne
Lord Howth
Galway
Kilborney
Clare
Bridewell Lane
Cork
Robert Barrow
Weather and farming notes from Edinburgh region
The Edinburgh diary notes a recent funeral and arrivals from England including the Earl of Bredalbane. A barometer reading stood at 78, indicating warm weather. Reports mention two barley fields near Perth, Woodhead and Huntingtower, ready for harvest this autumn. Marquis of Lothian burial plans and a death of Charles Congallon of that Ilk are also recorded.
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Cotlan
Edinburgh
Charles Lord Kinaird
Drinmie
England
Earl of
Bredalbane
Woodhead
Huntingtower
Perth
William Henry
Lotham
Newbottle
Navigation and Noble Visitors At Bridgewater Works
Manchester reports a surge of nobility visiting the Bridgewater Navigation and Machinery works praised for beauty and order. Other items note royal arrivals, weddings, and multiple criminal trials with transportation and execution sentences across England.
Clergy Appointments and Harvest Notices Across Regions
Ford is named Canon Residentiary at the cathedral following Rev Dr Browne's death. The Lord Bishop of Hereford col lates Rev Gibbons Bagnall to a prebendary seat at the same cathedral. In Bristol Duke of Cumberland visited the theatre to view the Clandestine Marriage and Hamlet. Reading notes a likely bountiful harvest as wheat prices drop amid fair weather. nearby fields already reaped. Huntingham records the marriage of John Bedford to Mrs Thong, heiress of Walter Phong Eig.
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Henley
Windsor
Huntingham
All Saints Church
John Bedford
Leeds
Mus Thong
Walter Phong
Eig
Port News In Aug 5 1775 Port Chronicle
PORT NEWS from Plymouth and Deal reports arrivals and sailings of multiple ships. Viper sloop of war from Portsmout h. Cumberland and Friendship cutters on cruise. Tweed frigate to Lisbon with Lt Littlton aboard. Danish wheat ship from Dantzick docks at harbor. Several vessels depart for Lisbon, Portsmouth, Bilboa, and the West Indies while others arrive at Cadiz Cork Dublin Kinsale and Dublin from Philadelphia Barbadoes Lisbon and Cadiz. Multiple captains named and routes listed.
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Plymouth
Porttmouth
Lisbon
Littclton
Gasport
Lord Cornwallis
Zzolus
Spithead
Gibraltar
Dantzick
Deal
Fowey
Wellin
Salisbury
Johnson
Portsmouth
Elizabeth
Richardson
Chester
Friendship
Ray
India
W. Deal
Prince Edward
Harvey
Poder
de Alanda
Bilboa
Providence Increase
Hewnland
Westward
Wind S. W
Ventura
Espelita
Lima
Cadiz
Ts Hhenderson
Philadelphia
Cork
Sally
Ryder
Kinsale
Ditto
Mary
Swords
Barbadoes
Dublin
Magrath
Saveent
Hodgeon
Antigua
Lancaster
Hope
Harry
Love
Todd
Stockholm
Francis
Jane
Myers
Bourdeauy
Canada
M‘cloud
Quebec
St. George
Jones
Dover
Bella, Barras
St. Vincent
Hope, Thomas
Granades
Royal News From London and Abroad in 1767
Reports from London note the Duke of York may attend the Venice carnival after a stay in Paris while the Earl of Huntingdon may be created Duke of Clarence. News covers births and deaths, a Port Egmont letter describing Faulkland and sea life, legal notices, public works, and ships at Plymouth, with various arrivals and scavenger events in London and abroad.
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London
Duke of York
Paris
Venice
Earl of Huntingdon
Duke of Clarence
Earl of March
Rugen
Blessinton
Lapella Phipps
Sandford
Barc
George
Lord Kinnaird
Patrick
Elizabeth
Hellen
Margaret
Middle
Inner Temple
Gray’s Inn
Lincoln’s Inn
Richard M' Donnell
Port Egmont
Faulkland
South Seas
Cape Horn
England
Florida
Swift
Port St. Julian’s
Port Defire
Patafonian
Proposed Navigable Canal Linking Coventry to Oxford and Stratford
A public notice invites landowners and manufacturers to a meeting at the Whitedigg Warwick at eleven on the ish Instant to decide whether to undertake a cross county canal from Coventry toward Wormleighton Oxford and Stratford upon Avon. Discussion will cover scope parts, funding, and governance under turnpike style commissions.
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Brindley
Vale of Trent
Staffordshire
Tamworth
Amington
Polsworth
Grindon
Atherstone
Caldecote
Weddington
Nuneaton
Chilvers Coton
Bedworth
Folethill
Coventry
City of
Stoke
Binley
Newbold Revel
Lawford
Rugby
Barby
Willoughby
Granborough
Stockton
Ladbrook
Wormleigh
Warswick
Stratford Upon Avon
Whitedigg
Warwick
Yorkshire
Thames
University of
Oxford
County of
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Berlin
Ariesbourg
Brandebourg
Hanover
Werthoff
Manchester
Duke of Bridgewater
Bath
Royal
Princess Poniatowski
Clive
Tinker
Miss Lang
Norwich
Liverpool
Halton
Chelmsford
John Philips
Stratford
Charles Harrington
Edward Green
Thomas Goodeve
Sidney Stafford Smythe
Corporation of
Maldon
Cambridge
Bourn
Lincolnshire
Edward Robson
Venus
Simon Merriman
Sloven
Wilmot
Baron Adams
Stephen Manfeld
William Warren
William Brown
Buckingham
Bedford Assices
Sarah
Edward Adington
Mary Dunton
John Carter
Benjamin Baffet
Philip Baffet
William Willim
Wadham College
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