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London News and Fire Casualties at Ragged Road Southwark
Early morning fire at the house of Mr Hughton the glazier in Ragged Road near King's Arms Stairs Southwark destroyed five houses, injuring the widowed wife and a nurse and child. a second woman missing. The blaze controlled by eight. The rest of the scroll details royal festivities, Parliament prorogation, obituaries, and various societal notices from London, Windsor, Philadelphia, and Rotterdam, including ship Anne's return with treasure, and a murder in Pennsylvania. The report also catalogues appointments, inheritances, and legal affairs surrounding the crown and notable figures.
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Hughton
Ragged Road
King’s Arms
Southwark
Royal
Prince of Wales
London
Westminster
Prince and Princess of Wales
Duke
Caroline
Prinhe of Wales
Caroline Sackville
Duke of
Seality
Saddlers Hall
Cheapside
Laure
Lyon
William Bazil
Wilton
Bucks
Conduit-street
Col
Leigh Backwell
Alderman Backwell
Charles I
Ireland
Flanders
John Willes
Court of Common Pleas
Reeve
Deceas
Mead
Place
Furnival’s Inn Gate
Holbourn
Brick Court
Temple
Master Reeve
Birmingham
Warwickshire
Reeve Decas
Sidney Beduclerck
Richard Topham
Windsor
Tower
James Mead
Dr. Mead
James Pearce
King’s Remembrancers
Exchequer
South-Sea Company
Anne
Hill
Buenos Ayres
Downs
Rotterdam
Sterling
Holland
Amsterdam
Portugal
Mediterranean
West India Station
Justices of the Peace
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Benjamin Burden
New Jersey
Mr. Burden
Fife
Long Island
New York
Earl of Granard
Spain
John Robinson
Cranford
Northamptonshire
Earl of Hallifax
Knights of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath