Commissioners release over Goodyer case and naval orders
The text reports on officials released in a case over a habeas corpus return involving Captain Goodyer, disputed family ties of Sir John Dinely and Mrs Foote, and confirms orders for a Bermudian military magaz ine. It notes ships docking at Plymouth, privateer pursuit, and new examinations for naval and legal offices alongside deaths and appointments in various counties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
France
Ain
Capt
Goodyer
King’s Bench
Bristol
Torde
Capt. Goodyer
John Foote
West-Indies
Chaloner Ogle
Samuel Foote
Worcester College
Oxon
Inner-Temple
John Dinely
Edward Dinely
Earl of Rutland
Earl of Rockinghar
Truro
Prize Office
Commission of
Spithead
Admiralty
St. Sebastian’s
Yis
Weecay
Duncomb Backwell
Northampton
Henry Laffels
York
China
Princess Mary India-man
Martin
India-house
Land’s-End
Plymouth
The
India Company
King’s Dock
Charles Chandler
Ely
Earl of Radnor
Dover
Cornwall
John Selwyn
Elg
Whitchurch
Cleveland Court
St. James’s
Stapleford
City of Westminster
Claphamy
Honeywood
Atkins
Clapham
Stoke
Stow, Bucks
Edmund Halsey
Lord Cobham
Jirrell
Andover
Hampshire
Court of
King’s Bench and Common Pleas
Southampton
Wilks
Berks
Somerset
Gloucestershire
Gloucester
Chanscry
Clergy Appointment and London Crime and Market News
The Lord Chancellor appoints Rev Richard Batchelor to the Rectory of Thorsway in Lincoln diocese. In London, boat drownings on the Thames, a man mortally wounded by three robbers near Hoxton, and a master carpenter robbed on Chelsea Common are reported. A rape accusation leads to a man’s committal to Wood Street. A gang robs Lombard Street shops and a Gamester named Lawrence Sidney receives a pillory sentence. From Lisbon come notes of privateering activity and expected captures. North Wales circuit dates are set. Market quotes show South Sea, Bank, India bonds, orper cent loans, and various securities trading.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard Batchelor
Thorsway
Lincoln
Smith
Bridge
Peacock
Hoxton
White Lyon
Samuel Bland
Chelsea- Common
Woodstreet Compter
Sir John Thompson
Robert Bromley
Elizabeth Sandford
Lomvard-street
Cornhill, &c
Lawrence Sidney
Court of King’s Bench
Haymarket
Charing-Cross
Lisbon
N.S
Leonard
Giles
Rice
South-Carolina
Hargrave
Gibraltar
Middlesex
Essex
Court House
Whitechapel
Stratford
Richard Dunne
Society For the Propagation of the Gospel
St. Mary le-Bow
Cheapside
Dhe
Oxford
London
Dudgeon Shoal
Lexton
Michael Newnam
Hatton Garden
R. Desaguliers
Essex House
Essex Street
Bondon
Nando
Fleet-street
Ipswich Free Burgesses Propose Admiral Vernon as Representative
In Ipswich on 24 1740 the Free Burgesses unanimously agree to nominate Admiral Vernon for a Representative seat at the next Election. They urge brethren to join in supporting this interest, praising his great and glorious services to the country and hoping gratitude and self preservation prevail to place liberties in his hands. They affirm the move will be acceptable to the Admiral.
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Ipswich
Admiral Vernon
Bridgnorth
Lancelot Leg
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North
Wales
Rogers Holland
Thomas Martyn
Merionethshire
Dologelly
Carnarvonshire
Carnarvon
Anglesey
Beaumauris
India
Royal Exchange
Prem
Mine Adventures
Wicuard Farrar, and Company
Chinawen and Glass-Selers
Cullum
Fenchurch-street
Princes-Jane
Uft
Genoa
Ravanelli
Finochio
John’s
Duke-ftreer
Lingela’s- Inn-fields