Excise Trial and Crime Reports From London and Abroad
A London excise hearing pursues Amos Wenman for retailing spirits at two houses under one licence, with judgment against him. Other items note seizures of tea, a street robbery near Ludgate Hill, Davenport’s reprieve, a dray punishment, and Turpin sightings. Foreign dispatches report French mediation in Corsica, Polish fronts, Peruvian murders, and Madrid letters, plus a royal court order restricting access to the Prince of Wales at royal palaces.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bridewell
Commissioners of ‘Excise
Amos Wenman
London
Bridge
Royal Exchange
Commissioners of Excise
Foster
Holbourn
Bromley
Kent
Baily
Ludgate Hill
Newgate
Abraham Davenport
Uvedale
Blackbourne
Turpin
Dunkirk
Spain
Lisbon
Portugal
Theodore
Leghorn
Corsica
Mar* Feilles
Toulon
Provence
Vienna
London Gazette
Lord Chamberlain
Diseases and Casualties This Week Summary
Weekly mortality and illness totals include 239 buried males and 26 buried females, with 499 total burials and 170 burials newly recorded. Causes feature consumption, convulsions, dropsy, fever, small-pox, and drowning, plus deaths from excessive drinking, hanging, and fatal falls. Financial notes list South Sea Stock and annuities, bank figures, and various government and imperial loan percentages.
Desertion Notice for James Fleming Third Regiment of Foot Guards
Desertion notice for Alexander Fleming born in Lundie Angus Scotland. Described as 6 feet 2 inches tall with pale complexion dark brown hair and well built. If he returns within three weeks he shall be pardoned. After that, any county jail capture and report to Captain John Edison in the Savoy London grants two guineas reward, plus parliamentary rewards.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Stuart
Earl of Dunmore
Alexander Fleming
Lundie
Shire of
Angus
Scotland
Great Britain
John Edison
Savoy
London
The King's Theatre Notice on March Tickets
A dated notice from the King's Theatre announces ticket delivery to subscribers only on Wednesday at White's Chocolate-House in St James Street. Each ticket admits either one gentleman or two ladies, reflecting a public assembly arrangement for the upcoming event.
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White’s Chocolate-House
St. Jamesseet
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Paris
Lower Bretagny
Reynolds
St. Malo’s
Lewis XIV
Cardinal Minifer
Warsaw
Munich
Poland
Madrid
Lima
Peru
Cerro de la Sal
Order of St. Francis
Bastia
Marquess de Boisfieux
South Sea
India
Prem
Ditto
Mine Adventure
Emperes
Exchequer
Dtto
William Scott
Petersfield
Free Grammar School
Southampton
King’s Theatre
Hay-Markee
Fog& Lett
Abermarles
Carmarthenshire
Francis Cornwallis
Deceas
Beete
Ashton
Surrey
Freet
Strand
Mickleham
Darking
Epsom
James Gibson
Newgate-street
Milford
Sarum
Robert Coopes
Linnefs-draper
Ormond-street
High Court of Chancery
Anthony Allen
Chancery-lane
Aftol
County of
Gloucester
Leafe
Minster Lovell
Oxfordshire
Minster
Exon College
Exeter
James Toogood
Thomas Reading
Salisbury
Lercoys
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