London Evening Post 1737 Alderman Election Accounts
London news item reports Alderman elections in Tower Ward with Daniel Lambert declared winner by large margin. a provisional poll for Peter Burrell is planned. Langborn Ward Alderman Joseph Hankey chosen unopposed. Edinburgh and Virginia posts noted. Lord Orkney dies age seventy. Covent Garden disturbance leads to arrests. various city offices announce appointments and orders.
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London
John Thompson
Tower Ward
Charles Peers
Deceas
Daniel Lambert
Peter Burrell
South-Sea Company
Burrell
Lambert
Langborn
Joseph Hankey
Richard Brocas
Farringdon- Within
Robert Westley
Wm. Selwin
Middlesex
Francis Macklay
William Cowper
Jennings
Edinburgh
Storm Rips Copenhagen Sound Frigate Lost and Havoc Spreads
A violent storm on the 21st caused severe damage at Copenhagen and along the coast. The 30 gun frigate Charlotte broke from anchors and wrecked near Saltholm with all hands and guns saved. Over 20 ships stranded on the Swedish coast, many Dutch or Swedish. Villages suffer destruction of cattle and buildings as weather wrecks land and sea.
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Copenhagen
Charlotte
Saltholm
Countess of Drogheda Dies in Childbirth in Dublin
Ireland. Dublin. Last Tuesday died in Bolton-street the Countess of Drogheda in child birth. She was daughter to the Viscount Duncannon. Her death is greatly lamented as a lady endowed with all the virtues of her sex.
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Porteous
Albemarle-street
George Hamilton
Earl of
Orkney
Scotland
Virginia
Edinburgh Castle
Order of the Thistle
James
The
Boyne
Athlone
Limerick
Achrim
Sceinkirk
Landen
Namure
Blenheim
William IV
Anne
Abesbachele
Tite
Elizabeth
Edward Villiers
Queen Mary
Edward Earl of Jersey
Harriot
Earl of Orrery
Cork
Lord Delawar
Canterbury
Chichley
Folkes
Liffe
Durdans
Enfield
Richard Darby
George. Cooke
Court of Common Pleas
Mr. Darby
Darby
Temple
Henry Fisher
Kensington
Robinson
James Craggs
Crumpe
St. Paul’s School
Court of Assistants
Mercers Company
Clark
Charles
Taunton
Somersetshire
Ireland
Dublin
Bolton-street
Countess of
Riot Murder Witness Escapes Castle Imprisonment
In Edinburgh on Friday Binny a Goochman's helper was freed from confinement in the Castle where he was held for being accessory to the riot and murder of Captain Porteous.
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Scotland
Edinburgh
Binny
Capt. Porteous
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Sir Orlando Humfreys, Bart
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Col. de Veil
Francis Cooke
Rich
Prince and Princess of Wales
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Joshua Drake
Will. Carr
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Jake
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