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Robbery and arrests in London and surrounding areas
A 1735 London period piece reports a daytime robbery in Great Grénfiioh Huntingdonshire where Mr Arnold resisted two attackers at Chalk Hill and escaped with his life. other items include Thomas Fountefick’s committal for breaking into a Kent stable and stealing a horse, a Edinburgh case of Archiball Campbell fined for spitting, parish vote results at St Botolphs Aldersgate, drowning bodies found near Deptford and Greenwich, and a large Brandy seizure by a Falmouth customs officer revealing extensive contraband on a ship bound for Holland.
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Mr. Arnold
Gréat Grénfiioh
Huntingdonshire
Yorfdon
Chalk Hill
Baldock
Stevenage
Perfon
Arnold
Ris
Thomas Fountefick
Southwark
Aimey
Reading
Johnsmall
Hays
Bromley
Kent
Tid Fountefick
Dulwich
Camberwell
Walworth
Hort
Edinburgh
Archiball Campbell
James Steuart
Art
Botolph
Aldersgate
Deptford
Greenwich
George Victualling-House
Billingpore
Wight
St. Mary Hill
Falmouth
London