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Miscellaneous 18th century notices and criminal items
A batch of brief notices reports rebuilding approvals for Warton parish church in Northumberland and fires at Stanford in the Vale Berks Evesham Worcestershire and Fearby Yorks. It notes a theatre wardrobe theft valued at three to four hundred pounds, executions ordered near Chelmsford and a fatal marketplace stabbing. A maid at Carnaby Market faces suspicion of childbirth and a body examination. Admiralty reports captures of a French privateer and a Dunkirk privateer seizure off Heligolandt along with bankruptcy and certificate notices for London Norwich Petersfield and Bristol trades, with August deadlines.
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Warton
Northumberland
Stanford
Vale
Berks
Evesham
Worcestershire
Fearby
North Riding of
Yorkshire
Chelmsford
Essex
Killenbeck
Thaxted
Brainree
Fleet Market
Agegrefsor
Cambridge-street
Broad-street
Carnaby- Market
London Gazette
Admiralty Office
Vane
His
Arethusa
Lowelstoffe
Revenge
Swallow
Amsterdam
Teneriffe
Tonyn
Dunkirk
Heligolandt
Hamburgh
Robert Maberley
London
Guildhall
John Rodhams Streaton
Norwich
Bristol
Edward Maynard
St. George
William Wilson
Bowlane
John Dalton
Westham