Prison Breaks and a Burglary in Southwark and Clerkenwell
Saturday Jaft was committed to New-Gaol Southwark for feloniously stealing a shirt a watch chain a chafed silver snuff box and other goods from lodgings in Bandy leg Walk Southwark. They escaped from New Prison Clerkenwell undermining a wall and two prisoners were recaptured while five remain at large. two fetters were found near Whitechapel suggesting they fled to ships in the river.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Clark
Southwark
Robert Humphries
John Portance
St. Saviour
Samuel Strange
Bridewell
New Prison
Clerkenwell
Mr. Wilkes
St. John-street
Hampstead
Canbury House
Whitechapel
British Forces Reported Landings at Ticonderoga
From Albany an Express notes that on July 6 English forces landed near Ticonderoga and engaged a French and Indian force. About 200 French and Indian dead and 140 taken prisoner, with 46 English killed including Brigadier General Lord Howe. The following day the army attacked Fort Ticonderoga, met 4000 well entrenched defenders, fought hours, then retreated to the lake’s other side. Estimated English losses near 1000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
News
York Gazette
Albany
Ticonderoga
Mart Cosh
Bat
Lord Howe
Enenes
Ticonderogand
Arrival of East India Ships at Kinsale Deemed Premature
Cork August 16 The Account of the arrival of two homeward bound East India Ships at Kinsale is premature. Edinburgh August 15 The Hon Mrs Jean Murray died Friday morning in Edinburgh, daughter of the late Viscount Stormont and aunt to the current Viscount.
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Ireland
Cork
Kinsale
Scotland
Edinburgh
Jean Murray
David Viscount of
Port News
Falmouth
Jug
Mary Gally
Lawrence
Curaccoa
St. Andrew
Bristol
Lizard
Broderick
Waterford
Tartar
Ouchterlaung
London
Phenix
Betsey
Bennet
Ditto
Plymouth
Prince of Brunswick
Topham
Senegal
William and Mary
Topsham
Milford
Aldborough
Portsmouth
Betty
Rains
Mary
Walker
Amity
Sunderland
Deal
Queen Elizabeth
Harrison
Venice
Compton
Exon
Revenge
Prince Edward
Wind S
Senora
Kelly
Faro
Shoreham
Cyracia
Fayall
Gloucestershire Political Moves and Militia Meeting
Gloucester reports George Augustus Selwyn elected Mayor for the year. Oxford notes Lady Bridger Bertie named Lady Patroness at the Angel Inn. Cambridge covers a Militia meeting at the Rose Inn with no communions reported.
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Country News
Gloucester
George Augustus Selwyn
Oxford
Angel Inn
Bridger Bertie
Cambridge
Rose Inn
Ecclesiastical Appointments and Local Notices Report
The column records multiple clerical presentations and institutions to rectories and vicarages across Warwickshire Lincolnshire Norfolk Suffolk Cheshire and Wales with dates and presenting patrons. It also notes marriages at Strand Deptford and Abingdon and Berks, a parliamentary vacancy in Nottingham, deaths at Sun Tavern Holborn and a London Bridge security effort, plus two thefts at Hampstead and New Prison escape.
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Landordery
Philadélpha
Ransom
Richard Fangt
Grindon
Warwick
Litchfield
Coventry
Samuel Wafeman
L.L.B
Muffelden
Clarkson
Deceas
Laft
Abraham Portal
Strand
Olindo
Sophronia
Elizabeth Bedwell
Abingdon
Berks
Deptford
Charles Hockman
Mass Sally Brown
Depford
Yestterday
Bansted Church
Surrey
Philip Carteret Webb
Treasury
Maiss Rhoda Cotes
Lady Delves
Lord Howe
Commodore Howe
House of Commons
Nottingham
John Hutton
Sun
Holborn
London Bridge
William Jones
Newgate
John Fielding
Hampstead
New Prison
Edward Ge
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Trinity House
Great Holland Church
Naze Norh
Reading
Duke of St. Alban’s
London Gazette
Lord Henry Beauclerk
Forencon
H. Beauclerk
Sintin-Moor
L’ounes
George Inn
Derby
Northampton
MM. Arundel, R. Harding, F. Harding
W. Griffiths
A. Griffiths
Blaze
Duke of Kingston
Young Grey Hound
Ray Barb
Oroonoko
Janus
Crab
Picket
Turk
Snake
Chesnut
Whittington
Slider
Philip Burlton
Henson
Holbourn Bridge
Hugone Hamilton
A.M
Collegii
Gn. Johnston
Ludgate-Streg
Prussia
Bohemia
Marcal Keith
County Dolina
Raffins
Hon. Board of Navy
America
Howe
Weymouth
M’quaid
New-York
Washington
Hispaniola
Old France
Shawe
Walter Barber
Sslverpool
Jamaica
Cerks
Free Grammar School
Uther
Hospital of Christ
Faid
Knapp
East-End Farm
William Barnes
Hayman
Petworth
William Heath
Town Place
Guiford
N.B
Langford
Houschold
George Beel
F.R.S. Deceas
Red-Lion-Square
Holbourn 3
Sale
Great Piazza
Covent-Garden
Samuel Bell
Bullock
French Horn
High Holbourn
Christian
Wvedale
M D
Ore
R. Baldwin
Paternofter Row
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