Various Disturbances and Accidents Reported in England
News briefs recount murders and robberies, fires, drownings, and accidents across towns including Oxford Stow on the Woulds, Cambridge Somersham, Norwich and Bath. Notable items note a child death from suffocation in Gloucestershire, a coachman slain by bandits, a kiln worker found dead with organs exposed, and snow disruptions with coal seizures for hospitals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oxford
Talbot
Stow
Glouceferthire
Cambridge
Somersham New
King Herod
Maffon
Merill
Longmire
Petershouse
Elwer
Spexhall
Halesworth
Norwoich
White
Aylsham-Burgh
Norwich
Taverham
Branthwayt
Hammond
Horsted
Newcastle
Bristol
Gloucester
Bath
Viscount Bargheth
Gidett
Earl of Westmoreland
Countess of Huntingdon’s
James Whitefield
George White‘field
Spry
King’s Bath
Valentine Boyles
Norfolk
Reading
Richard Bedster
Petworth
Sussex
Ripley
Surry
Canterbury
Maidstone
Robert
Inmates Plot Escape From Jail Guards at Blas Heath
Report describes a group of felons attempting a jailbreak from Blas Heath prison, with Heny Ho Costs fat ees and reawide accused of aiding. the text notes ghatgeri with destise geeae fin and references Heshers Laying as property owners. The prisoner’s scheme involved disguises and ongoing plotting of further villainy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ghatgeri
Heath
Port News Arrivals and Departures at Falmouth Deal
PORT NEWS Gathers arrivals and departures from Falmouth and Deal with multiple vessels. Young Peter from Surinam to Amsterdam and General Wall from Viana to London. Kingston from Roan sails to Philadelphia. Hopewell to Exeter and William and Martha to Liverpoo l. Queen Charlotte remains at Deal as other ships fail in easterly winds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Port News
Falmouth
Peter, Wesi
Suripam
Amsterdam
General Wall
Scott
Viana
London
Grenville Packer
Edwards
West Indies
Poole
Kingston
Fawcett
Roan
Hopewell
Philadelphia
William and Martha
Forrest
Exeter
Eagle
Deal
Queen Charlotte
Reeves
Carolina
London Gossip Reflects Political and Social Tremors
Report surveys levees and debates in London Parliament with notices of corn import bills and export bans. It notes distillers fearing topping, a Harcourt entertainment, Rome reports on the Young Pretender, and ships arriving at Spithead and the Mother Bank. Also covered are fires, drownings, crime, court dates, and a novel British herb tobacco remedy sold at St Paul’s Coffee House.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
St. James’s
Privy Council
Prince of
Brunswick
Earl of Harcoust
Cavendith-Square
Rome
Bologna
Corporation of London
Portmouth
Motherbank
Needles
Spithead
Mr. O'Hara
Senegal
Pearl
Saxton
Newfoundland
Cadiz
St. Dunstan’s
Chichester
Stainsby
Romaine
Ciy
St. Andrew’s
Holbourn
Thomas Septimus Dalby
Hurt
Berks
Josepha French
John French
Hatton Garden
Stationers Hall
Richard Hett
Rosamand
Fustice Chive
Baron Smythe
Hertford
Essex
Chelmsford
Kent
Maidstone
Sussex
East Grinstead
Surry
Wednes
Kingston Upon Thames
Livyn
America
West Indies
Cape Francois
Turks Island
Bahama Islands
Great Britain
Labrador
Bance Island
Dunwiddie
Virginia
Africa
Bristol Packer
Honywell
Bristol
Jamaica
South Carolina
St. Jospha
Bourdeaux
Brest
St. George’s Channel
Spon
Geneva
Beaufort
Bronkenschwerdt
James Rowley
St. Paul’s
Postscript on Liberty and Army in the English Realm
A polemical note contrasts historic constitutional limits with modern practice. It laments infrequent elections, lavish constituency payments, unchecked royal grants, and the rise of a standing army. The piece argues power and force threaten rights and cites the Light Horse as a cautionary example.
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Annsurance
Civer
Lambeth
Vauxhely
St. Ann’s Watch House
de Wat
Compter
Stanley
Sarah
Anna Christiana Cole
Newgate
Green
Southwark
St. Mary, Lambeth
Jane, Gibbon
Guebec
Carlingford
Breland
John Jefferies
Depry
St. James's and
Clyde Parks
Golparann
New Cc Hee
Orford
Mr. Carey
Wootton
Postscript
London Evening Post
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