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Courts Hear Pawn Case and Broadside of London Crimes
A Saturday common pleas session heard Savory versus Grub over four rings entrusted by Green, a jewel broker, with misappropriation by a lieutenant and pawned for 75 pounds. The broader Exchequer session covered Corn Metage tolls, pardons for Fleet Prison smugglers, West India rum relief petitions, and ship purser tales, with public misdeeds, accidents, and crimes spanning London to Dublin including executions, thefts, a balcony collapse, and severe weather.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Justice Denton
Court of Common Pleas
Savory
Grub
Green
Hampstead
Barons of
Flower
Queenhithe Market
Lambeth
Williams
Regiment of Foot Guards
Her Majesty
East India House
Leadenhall-street
Godolphin
Bengall
Crompton
Bencolen
Falmouth
Sedgwick
Bengal
Richard Brocas
Newgate
Johnson
Cheapside
Lalfo
Smithfield
London
Rose Mahon
Shepherd
Col. de Veil
Henry Gould
King’s Bench
Westminster
George Watson
Yorkshire George
Bunhill Fields
Tyburn
Daye
Stamford Rivers
Ongar
Essex
Neiver
Pater Nester Row
Darnell
Southwark
St. Mary Magdalen’s Church
Richmond Green
Croydon
Chertfey
Surrey
Chertsey
Alderman Parsons
Bridewell Hospital
Shere
Jony