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Widespread Crime and Shipwreck Report From London
Accounts cite a brutal assault by a mastiff on a 16 year old in Hackney and a theft spree with arrests for horse stealing and robbery. Letters from Plymouth describe ships driven ashore near Looe, with hundreds of horses and vast plunder, and a prosecutor’s plan to pursue culprits at public expense.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hackney
Newgate
Aldermin Lambert
Smithfield
Carter
Fleetstreet
Anne Dunn
Justice de Veil
Sarah Fox
Plymouth
Batton Cliff
Looe
Britannia
Ramsgate
William Moverley
Cowes
Cadiz
Madicom
Hence
Newfoundland
Spain
Portugal
East-India Company
Paris
Hotel de Longueville
The
Inquisition
M. Amélot
Relais
France
Cardinal de Fleury
Marques d’Antin
West
d’Etrees
Govers
M. Chauvelin
Soliman II
Francis I
Porte
Cardinal Fleury
Sieur Govers
Don Carlos
Parma
Duke of Lorrain
Bourges
Sieur. Govers
Vienna
Ratisbon
Count de Seckendorff
Prince Eugene
Duke of Marlborough
Moselle
Muttes
Niffa
Danube
Nif
Count Seckendorff
Widdin
Count Philippi
Count de Khevenhuller
Nifla