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Rogues plunder Skinner House and other crimes reported
An account details a burglary at Ambrose Skinner's house near Barking on Thursday night. The robbers, masked, bound the residents and stole plate money clothes and linens before fleeing on two horses. A second robbery left a bound victim cold and beaten. Also reported are executions orders and pardons from a Cabinet Council at St James's, including Tyburn pending deaths and reprieves for transportation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ambrose Skinner
Bird Feltham
King’s Yard
Deptford
London
Releas
St.James’s
Serjeant
Urting
Newgate
John Butler
Lutas
Red-lyon-street
Clerkenwell
Withurd Williams
Richard Row
Somerset-house
Owen Pritchard
Hebert
Ludgate
Ambrose Thurman
Edmund Eyles
James Casey
John Atkinson
Whitechapel Fields
William Williams
Strand
Tyburn
Elizabeth Pugh
Peter Hughes
Charles Symonds
Red-Lyon Inn
Charing-Cross
Edward Atkins
Ledge
Samuel Flewellin
Edward ‘Salisbury
Mary Bowman
Portugal
Pearlé Clay
John Dunkerton