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London Chronicle 1737: council scrutiny and royal notices
London items review election rules for aldermen requiring wealth 20,000 and debts cleared. Reports of cricket match odds Sussex vs nobles in Hyde Park. Obsequies for Countess Dowager of Oxford and local sheriffs election results. Royal appointments, ambassadors, and court movements noted alongside South Sea Company talks and naval dispatches. Deaths of Beckford and Andrew Moore noted with estates shifting.
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London
Prince of Wales
William Gage
Firlein
Sussex
William
Hyde Park
Countess Dowager of
Oxford
Great Ruffel-street
Bloomsbury
Edmonton
Middlesex
Hugh Middleton, Bart
Robert Late Earl of Oxford and Mortimer
Jast
Chippenham
Wilts
Rogers Holland
Baynton Rolt
Rolt
Holland
Rol
John Eyles
Richard Wood
Court of Exchequer
John Couffins
Arthur Harris
Haberdasher
Philip Scarth
Groces
Peter Gauflin
Charles Hofier
Isaac Pike
Francis Forbes
Henry Benyon
Thomas Roffel
Mark Winn
Guildhall
Tho. Ruffell
John Floyd
Peter Roberts
Bridge-house
Daniel Lambert
George Champion
Tom
Hide Park
Richmond
Countess of Tankerville
Dutchess of
Dorset
Cavalier
Onslow
Foot
Horse Grenadier Guards
Earl OF Effingham
Great George
Marquess de Cambis
France
William Kirkpatrick
Dumfries, &c
Scotland
Charles Airline
Spanif
Spain
Francis Dashwood
Earl of Westmoreland
Horse-Guards
South- Sea Company
Caswall
Coope
Bancé
Holden
Wymondfeld
Woodford
Ruck