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London and Cambridge News Mixed from The Strand Fire to University Degrees
Reports from London and Cambridge recount a range of events: warnings on naval recruitment and timber employment to bolster the navy, celebrations of the queen’s birthday with fireworks by the Ilton group, and Cambridge University conferring sixty four Bachelor of Arts degrees across several colleges. Also noted are a Bath Easton birth, local death and fire incidents, ship movements, imports and exports from the Downs and Cambridge, and public notices including a minor highway robbery and a Fen survival tale.
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London
Ander
Oiler Brothers
Ilington
Red Lion
C. R
Batchelors
University of Cambridge
Batchelors of Arts
Trinity College
St. John’s
Kings
St. Peter’s
Clare Hall
Pembroke Hall
Caius
Queens
Magdalen
Corpus Ciritti
Jesus
Clerk
Emanuel
Sidney
Herbert Packington
Hart
Bath Easton
Bridgwater
Flanders
Louisa Charlotta
Charles Lewes
Isenburg
Wachterstad
Manchesters
Salford
Edward Leech
Thomas Coppock
Brooktreet
Grosvenor Square
Ann Lloyd
Yewd’s
Somerset House
Strand
Debrofe
Whitehead’s
Aid
King’s Arms
Bondstreet
Downs
Barbadoes
John Moller
Matster
Riga
Amsterdam
Boldem
John Jansz Boon
Rostock
Infelefel
Baltic
Chester
India
Bristol
Holland
Ditto
Russia
West Indies
Deal
Fan
Hunter
Pomona
Cambridge
William Glover
Bucay Bae
Royston
Harston
Anne Sizer
Baroway
Isle of Ely
Soham
Drury Lane
Elvira
Govent-Garden