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Multiple Trials and Storm Damage Across England Record
Thursday trials include Gilbert Jones Thomas Porter and Richard Chesterfield sent to New Prison for opposing a High Constable in Holborn. A man and his wife were committed for wearing a false informant against retailers of spirituous liquors. A pair of butchers in Southwark drank heavily and one died, the other grievously ill. Lightning struck a plough team near Lilip Oxfordshire, and a driver was badly hurt. Storms caused extensive damage from Reading to Bungay with hail stones up to six inches, barns and windows damaged, crops flattened. London reports note further shipboard fires at Gibraltar and various European diplomatic discussions on Juliers Bergue, and Corsica and Corsican politics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gilbert Jones
Thomas Porter
Richard Chesterfield
New Prison
Clerkenwell
Col. de Veil
Holbourn
Philip Cholmondley
St. Giles’s
Whitechapel
Queen Street
Southwark
Lilip
Oxfordshire
Marlborough Downs
Newbury
Reading
Hertford
Ryslip
Uxbridge
Middlesex
Bungay
Suffolk
Matthews
Margets
Shoreditch
Climpton
Hornsey Woods
Gibraltar
Somerset
Port Mahon
Holland
Portugal