Gentlemen's Purse and Noble Event Highlight Salisbury Meeting
The article reports on horse racing and betting at a Salisbury gathering with Lord Weymouth and other nobles racing horses including Lord Craven and Sir Robert Fagg. It notes a cock-match between Lord Craven and William Willoughby, a canon residency election for Rev Dr Wynn, and the death of George Wattefelve in the Close aged 86.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Wood
Lord Weymouth
Merry Tom
Robert Fagg
Duke of Queensberry
Duke of Bolton
Lord Arundel
Lord Craven
Jacob Bouverie
George Wattefelve
Ely
Royal Navy Fire-Ships Mobilized Amid Turbulent London
London reports five of His Majesty's Transport Vessels converted to fire ships under Sir Robert Henley. In coastal news, Admiral Hadock prepares to reinforce, while reports note unrest at Tower Hill and the Westminster survey of homes slated for removal. Royal promotions and royal visits fill the week, with social events and marriages noted alongside weathered public notices and obituaries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Henley
Tower-Hill
Chatham
Robert Walpole
Houghton Hall
Norfolk
John Spencer
Duke of Marlborough
Tunbridge Wells
New Palace-Yard
King’s Street
Westminster
Bridge
Jatt
Winchester
Charles Naylor
Salisbury
Ordington
Gloucestershire
Willis
Alured Clarke
Whetham
Sabine
Wills
Duke of Cumberland
Hounslow- Heath
Regiment of
Dragoons
Honeywood
Haddock
Orce
Neptuné
Petit-Maitres
Circuit schedules and trials across counties in August
The notice lists circuit calendars for Agnes, Lord Chief numbers, and judges in Hertford, Chelmsford, Rochester, Lewes, Kingston upon Thames and more, with sessions from July 30 to Sept 5 across Somerset, Dorset, Devon, Cornwall, Somerset, Bristol, Norfolk, Oxford and Northern circuits. It records court dates, jurists, and venues including castles, guildhalls, and city halls. Also noted are a late July assault on Mr Knowland and a prison committal for Roert Bacy on a separate body assault.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Agnes
Érome Ciremie
Jumes Lee
Comyns
Hertford
Essex
Chelmsford
Kent
Rochester
Sussex
Lewes
Surrey
Kingston Upon Homes
Wilts
New Sarum
Dorset
Dorchesterr
Exeter
Fid
Devon
Cornwall
Bodmyn
Somerset
City of Wells
Bristol
Norfolk
Justice Denton
Baron Carter
Bucks
Buckingham
Bedfordshire
Bedford
Huntington
Cambridge
Castle of
Suffolk
Bury St. Edmund’s
Norwich
Justice Chapple
Air
Baron Parker
Mrn
County of York
Castle of York
Duram
Castle of Durham
Newerfile Upon Tyne
Northumberland
New Castle Upon Tyne
Cumbland
Carlisle
Westmoreland
Apuldy
Lancaster
Lancastern
Roert Bacy
Sarah Neeve
Knowland
West Smithfield
Addams
Woodstreet Compter
la Vera
Crux
Cadiz
Also Mentioned on This Page
London
France
Foot Guards
Duke of Kent
Dutchess of
Richmond
Margaret Bentinck
Wooduin- Abbey
Wrest
Ormond-street Chapel
Grant
Queenhith Ward
John Lequerie
A'derman
Middlesex
Timothy Waldo
Broad-Street
Alderman Heathcote
Wells
Abdchurch Lane
Parker
Treasury
Earl of Macclesfield
Exchequer
Stiles
Justice Page
Sar
King’s Bench Court
John Chichester
Bart
Barnstaple
Devonshire
John Rudd
Carmarthen
Witherston
Richard Witherston
Queen Square
John Sommerer
Acton
Duke
Beauford
Doctors Commons
William Jones
Cone
Bedington
John Lansdell
Eli
Ordnance
Liflard
College of Physicians
Warwick-lane
Gurielmi Harvery
Fedicinamque Rationalem Instituti
Med. Reg
A. D. M.dcc
Beslern
Justice Foicicus
Southampton
Castle of Winchester
Oxford
Bir
Fortescue Aland
Baron-Thomson
Berks
Reading
Gloucester
City of Gloucefer
Afonmouth
Monmouth
Hereford
Salop
Screwsbury
Staford
Stratford
Worcester
City of Worcester
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