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Widespread street crimes and smuggling incidents reported
The tale recounts multiple robberies and assaults in London and surrounding towns including Croydon Camberwell Westminster and Rope Hill with targets such as clerks writers and a cutler. Details include stolen money watches cloaks hats and a hag and wig plus a New Prison commitment for felonies. Letters from New York describe French activity in Quebec and Virginia. A Margate Road ship tale notes a near disaster and smuggling on the Kent coast with smugglers driving off with wool and sheep harmed.
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William Betes
Newgate
Hodges
Cheapsides
Sefen o’Glock
Wettal
Plymouth Yard
Qoiack
Croydon
London
Scott
Ward
Rothersithe
Camberwell
Maney
Admiralty
Angel-Court
Westminster
Story’s Gate
Glatehouse
Willoughby
Tower-Hill
Pottern
King’s Head
Tower Street
Pars
Tower Hill
New-Prison
Col. de Weil
Thomas Talsor
Mr. Smith
Alehon& Man
Chelsea Fields
John Read
John Hawkins
Covent-Garden
New-York
Quebeck
Great Lakes
Virginia
Pensylvania 5
Sweetman
Carolina
Margate Road
Tenterden
Kert
Woodchurch
Hesguless Taylor
St.Thomas’s
St. Kitt
Zoth- Fenton