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Clerical Appointments and Royal Notices Amidst Historic Turmoil
The Rev. Charles Stokes is presented to the rectory of Knaptoft, Leicester, by the Duke of Rutland, with Rev. Wilson moving from North Repps. the Earl of Cholmondeley confirms. Westminster Abbey funding plans seek 25,000 pounds for finishing the West End. A black marble grave stone in Margate records Dame Mary Cafwall. Court notes cover Bentley’s Cambridge dispute, Treasuries rewards for highway robbers, and various foreign dispatches from Constantinople to Naples, with war plans and papal moves across Europe. A bizarre Paris tale recounts a peasant’s son murdering his daughters in a misguided martyrdom bid.
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Charles Stokes
North Refips
Norfolk
Duke of Rutland
Knaptoft
Leicester
Lincoln
Wilson
North Repps
Earl of Cholmondeley
Dutchy. of
Westminster Abbey
Margaret
Cafwall
Milboun
Mary Cafwall
George
King’s Bench
Trinity College
Cambridge
Bentley
Visicor
Faid
Walker
John
Dormer
Justice Fortefone
King’s
M‘mahon
Fitzgerald
Kalkener
Farrel
Manster
Treasury
Cadiz
China
West Indies
Port Fidelle