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Fire and trials as London notices weigh on 1738 letters
Local and international items recount a near miss on a funeral body rescue at Execution Dock and a Coventry Court search for a lawyer, while ships reach the Downs with cargo for the South Sea Company. Letters discuss fires, arrests, court elections, and stock and political moves across Europe from Madrid to Paris and Amsterdam.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Motley Robinson
New Prison
Clerkenwell
Tnomas Jones
James Buchanan
Coventry Court
St. James’s Hay-market
Fearch
William Wreathock
Harwich
Wreathock
Buiter
Orhers
Anne Holland
Newgate
Col. de Veil
Mary Wright
Guiness
Siler
South Sea Company
Downs
Watkins
Buenos Ayres
Asia
Haverfordwest
Buenos Ayrés
River Plate
Fisher
Bennett
St. John Baptist
John Cook
Jace Clerk
Tallow-Chandlers Hall
Havannah
Tigre
Herz
Madrid
Pristol
Jamaica
Cadiz
N.S
Carthagena
Lima
Roy
Porto-Bello
Havanna
Vera Cruz
Ha- Vanna
Casthagena
Spain
Retiro
Paris
Count de Belle-Isle
Cardinal Fleury
Lorrain
Soisons
Duke of Fitz-James
Marshal Duke of Berwick
Hague
States General
France
Corsica
Naples
Baron de Neuhoff
Marquess de Fenelon
Poland
Stanislaus
Manheim
Elector Palatine
Palatinate
Juliers
Bergue
Prussia
Prince of Sultzbach
Dare
Sweden
Denmark
Empire
Magsid
Vienna
Fone
Ieins
Amstersam
Dutch Wall India Company
Curaccao
M. Hartel
Berlin
M. Guidickeps
London