English News and Deaths from Rome to London
A wide collection of notes from Rome reports the Chevalier de St George’s fragile recovery and distant political alignments. Obituaries recount Lady Anne, Countess Dowager of Coventry, and other notable deaths in Warwick, Lincolnshire, and London, followed by local trials, fires, ship movements, and market quotes in a late February roundup.
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Rome
Chevalier de St. George
Davenport
Leeds
Alderman Sinishton
William Banks
St. Andrew’s, Holboun
Thomas Kinaston
Lincoln’s Inn
Miss Hill
William Backwell
Pall-Mail
Chapel Royal
Thomas Whitehall
Tortie Sr
Undershaft
Mather
St. Giles’s Cripplegate
Thomas
Snitfield
Warwick
Anne
Coventry
Henry
Duke of Beaufort
Mary
Arthur
Lord Capell
Earl of Coventry
John
Holland
Adrian Baert
Cranenbrouck
Burgomatter
Alkmar
Richmond
County of York
James Close
Bawtry
Francis Fisher
Spandby
Lincolnshire
Grantham
Christopher Thornton
Charlone Altham
Altham
St. Olave
Jewry
Peyton Altham
Mark Hall
Essex
Stratford
Thomas Hickman
Tooting
Surry
South Audley-street
James Pickering
Calne
Wilite
Yetterday
Richmond Buildings
Soho
Elizabeth Watson
Bakewell
Chatsworth-park
Derbyshire
Hodgson
Addington
Yorkshire
Bumbles-mear
Skipton-marker
Roper
Stessons
Biddiefden
Whitechapel- Church
Newgate
Somerfall-hall
Chesterfield
Heath
Burton Clarke
Sessions House
Old Baily
Poultry- Compter
Messrs. Fuller, Welch and Son
Compter
James Freake
Portal
Ludgate-hill
Daniel Blake
John Murcott
Butler
Lord Dacre
Downs
His
Gosport
Sheerness
Virginia
Cabe
Nancy
Waddington
St. Kitt’s
Liverpool
Lion
Allen
Boston
Bristol
Africa
Philadelphia
Germany
Portugal
Seville
North America
Lea
Wind N. W
Hunter
Pomona
Admiral Forbes
Anderson
Tortola
Duke of York
Crawford
Lisbon
Hope
Harrison
Whitehaven
Sydenham
Markham
The Slipper Tale of Crispin and the Bootmaker War
A humorous satire recounts the rise and fall of a famed slipper, through a shop-floor drama among clickers, bootmakers, and masters. Willy West-Countryman reforms a deteriorating slipper, while Jack the Bootmaker ousts him, leading to renewed ruin and a costly struggle over trade and wax. The piece closes with a moral on prudent leadership and the broader reflection on war and peace.
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Dolly
Wilby
Wilil
Will
Jack
Leatherhead
Borch
Tam
Crispin
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