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Various London Notices and Local Tidings From May 1735
A long digest covers obituaries, drownings, a marriage errand, legal notices, and crimes. It reports the painter Mr Murray interred at St Pauls Covent Garden, Knight’s vault inscription, a drowning of Lt George Cox, a young woman found dead by hanging, a candidate for Yarmouth, Walpole attending the Exchequer, a royal baptism, Merchant Taylor School exams, hospital plans, a wounded royal equerry, Rome and Paris dispatches, highway robberies, a fatal home murder in Fulham, a coroner’s verdict of murder by brick-field, smuggling arrests, and commodity prices in the West. Also includes weathered crime and mortality tallies, stock prices, and public notices.
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Murray
Prince’sdoerk
Jorkegi Aelds
St. Paul's
Covent-Garden
St. Sepulchre’s Church
Dr. Knight
Jr.ee
James Knight
George Cox
Janely
Spithead
Strahd
Alon
Chute
Anthony Chute
Hants
Yarmouth
Hains
Paul Burrard
Robert Walpole
St. Barnabas
Merchant-Taylors School
Holmes
St. John’s College
University of Oxford
Merchant-Taylors Company
John Territt
John Negus
Joan Saunders
John Lequerie
Broadstreet Ward
Middlesex
Hyde Park
Corner
Barnard
Kensington
Afr
Isaac Ware
Board of Works
John Parry
Sutton
Rome
Kingdom of
Naples
Don Carlos
Holy Father
the Two Sicilies
Prince de St. Croix
Sicily
Genoa
Tuscany
Sienna
Montaronna
Spain
Piedmont
Paris
Notre-Dame
Cambray
France
Bois de Boulogne
Metz
James Monday
London
Blechington
Oxfordhire
Acton
Emmerton
Emmerson
James Nuby
Justice de Veil
Cecil Court
Leicester Fields
Her Majesty
Lodg
Ipswich
Suffolk
Baron Comyns
Lincoln’s Inn
Fleet
Colnbrook
Fulham
Exsheyazr
Newgate
James-street
Grosvenor S
Shaw
John
Alexander
Brown
Antirather
Barcelona
England
Pepys
Austin
Westminster
South Sea
India
Royal Exchange
York
Welch Digeo
Prem