Embieton ship wreck and Jamaica arrivals reported
Advice from town notes Embieton Capt Payne from South Carolina ran ashore at Padstow in a gale with crew saved but cargo lost. Royal Caroline, Mead, reached Jamaica on Nov 16 with all aboard and sailed for Vera Cruz the next day. St Philip from Tortobello arrived at Jamaica Dec 18. Garland Man of War under Capt George Berkley to sail from Jamaica to England in January. A fire at Colham Green near Hillingdon damaged barns and stock. Anonymous threats to Rogers Holland’s Chippenham estate led to royal pardon and reward. A smuggler is in Fleet Prison. Robberies reported in Piccadilly and Hyde Park Corner. Various royal appointments and appointments to offices announced in Whitehall.
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South Carolina
Padstow
Cornwall
South Sea Company
Royal Caroline
Mead
Jamaica
la Vera Cruz
St. Philip
Torto-Bello
Garland
George Berkley
England
John Day
Colham Green
Hillingdon
John Stock
Rogers Holland
Chippenham
Wilts
Kingwood
Salisbury
Sevenoaks
Kent
Fleet Prison
Bentley
Piccadilly
Holy Port
Windsor
London
Hounslow-Heath
Peters
The
Temple
Hyde Park Corner
Knightsbridge
Kensington
Knightsbrige
Newgate
Whitehall
Thomas Allin
Earl
Treasury
Great Britain
Philip Ryley
John Baron
Norfolk
Norwich
Robert Butts
James Cardonnel
William Churchill
Edward Astley
William Winde
Henry Talbot
William Fisher
Henry Parsons
Thomas Revell
John Berkeley
Thomas Brereton
William Thompson
George Crowle
Navy Royal
John Jennings
Kant
George Viscount Borrington
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Diseases and Casualties this Week in London
A condensed weekly death and disease table lists causes such as consumption, fever, small pox, and dropsy with counts. It records drownings, found dead cases, hangings, accidental deaths, and overlaid christenings across parishes like St Olave Southwark St James Westminster and St Bride’s. Burials total 613 with 365 deaths in the week, age breakdowns from under two to eighty-plus, and stock market figures for South Sea stock and bank annuities alongside other financial entries.
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St. Olave
Southwark
St. John the Evangelist
Westminster
St. Giles’s
Cripplegate
Christ Church
India
Mullin Bank
Mullin Bank Try. Exquivalenc
York
Royal Exchange Assurance
London Assurance
Englis Copper
Welch Dicto
South Sea
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Surrey
Rose and Crown
King’s Theatre
Hay-market
White’s Chocolate-House
St. James’s Street
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Admiralty Office
Scotland Yard
Berkhamstead
Northam
Hertford
Gibbons
Temple Church
Mile End
Stepney
Leafe
Thomas Coningham
Lothbury
Wadingham
County of
Lincoln
Kirton
Lindsey
Gainsborough
Nicholas Cotterell
Furnival’s Inn
Edward Short
Office of Ordnance
Tower of Hondos
Samuel Buck
Rotherham
Yorkshire