Walpole's Travels and Londons Ward Election Reports
Horatio Walpole embarks on travels abroad while London news recounts ward alderman elections, poll results, and scrutiny plans. Reports on Sir Thomas Lambe's death and his Silk Engine grant, prices for turkeys, and royal figures including the Princess of Wales and Prince of Wales. Also notes marriages, deaths, and public weighing fraud inquiries across the city.
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London
Horatio Walpole
Ely
Robert Walpole
Exeter
Nutwell
Miss Drake
Francis Drake
Bart
Darwent
Derby
Thomas
Champion
Baffishaw
Thomas Lambe
Decea
Persian Ambassadors Attend Audience with the Czarina in Petersbourg
In Petersbourg on December 2 the Persian ambassadors completed their first audience with the Empress. On St Andrew's Day the foreign ministers and Russian nobles paid respect to the Czarina at church, after which they shared a royal dive and a ball at night. Captain Calfo arrives with two coach sets sent by the King of Prussia, one for the Czarina and one for the Duke of Courland, plus a phaeton.
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St. Andrew’s
Order of the Blue Rivand
Knights of St. Andrew
Order
M. Calfo
King of Proffit
Grenadiers
Courland
King of
Death of Captain Stevens in Grey-Fryars procession
Edinburgh reports Captain Stevens of the Earl of Roches's Regiment died yesterday and was carried to the Grey-Fryars in a solemn church service. Two companies attended with muskets reversed, drums in mourning, and a dead march. Soldiers fired three volleys to honor a worthy gentleman. Also noted: Thursday, Mr. John Thomson, Writer to the Signet, died leaving a large estate.
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Scotland
Edinburgh
Stevens
Earl of Roches
John Thomson
Signet
Riotous Melksham Assembly And Death Of A Weaver
Last week John Bezer Edward Davis William Andrews and Simon Peace were committed to the county gaol for taking part in the riotous assembly at Melksham and for demolishing Mr Henry Coulthurst’s shear shop. William Smith a Warwick Weaver died suddenly while traveling from Troubridge to Langford. The corporation purchased a fine original painting of Queen Anne by Dahl, once belonging to the Brotherhood Club of MPs in London, now hung in the council chamber.
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Sarum
Fan
John Bezer
Edward Davis
William Andrews
Simon Peace
Melksham
Henry Coulthurst
Troubridge
Langford
William Smith
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Robert Kendall
Robert Westley
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Westley
Hankey
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the Princess of Wales
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Westminster
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Breadstreet Hill
Theodosia Gascoigne
St. Martin’s In the Fields
Samuel Stedman
Denver
Norfolk
Canterbury
Ely Chapel
Holbourn
Martha Butts
Robert Butts
George Browne
Stamps Office
Anne Hale
Benworth
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