Weather, fires, and flood damage across Norfolk area
Reports from Norfolk and nearby counties detail destructive storms on June 23 and 25. Bolts of lightning struck barns and a rectory, killing livestock and damaging homes and corn supplies. Hailstones up to several inches caused widespread destruction. in Crondall and Hampshire heavy rain overflowed rivers. fires started by lightning damaged buildings in Stoke-Goldington.
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Garwood
Croftwick
Thurston
Foncerr
Hart
Worhead
North Waltham
Reading
Mearing
Crease
Whitley
Knight
Crondall
Hampshire
Northampton
Moulton
Stoke-Goldington
Port News Dated Arrivals and British Court Updates
Port News reports arrivals at Penzance Falmouth Deal and Gravesend from Wales Hamburgh and Norway with multiple vessels listed. London life guards reviewed in Hyde Park, royal family travels to Richmond, Irish Parliament prorogued, and assorted legal municipal notices. Also mentions deaths marriages and a fatal boat accident near Gravesend with casualties and rescues.
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Penzance
John
Randal
Molly
Bardett
William
Melhurst
Salisbury
Burgess
Wales
Recovery
Freety
Hamburgh
Union
Billing
Exon
Maria
Guise
Sc. Marrin’s
Duke of Cornwall
Purchase
London
Falmouth
Prosperous
Hardin
Walker
Tenby
George
Mills
Industry
Skinner
Plymouth
Goodwill
Moorey
Portsmouth
Joseph
Nankovie
Polly
Parker
Garmarrhen
Deal
Fune
Elizabeth
Brown
Brooks
Lisbon
Prince of Piedhorn
Bates
Leghorn
Jamaica Packer
Bellamy
Philadelphia
Ann
Wye
Oporto
Earl of Guildford
Martin
Unclear fragment describes lightning strike and fire disaster
Fragmentary account recounts a lightning event hitting a house killing one person, wounding a second and severely bruising a third, with the house set ablaze. Surrounding area near Saffron Walden reportedly ablaze with multiple hovels and a globe sighted in a nearby blaze, inhabitants fleeing.
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Saffron Walden
Missing Jewels Reward Notice at London Auction
YOLEN on 7 uefuay the roth Inttant from a Perignnac dle Pair ap Savciane 10% A Box contained show1ing Gots. Four salver Waschis one Testoubel £0 fa med Mori one silvery recalnant Direc none Cearcesos several Rings x Hoop Rings tx irog Golpiath Hoos price Pair of Stone Sioe-Fuckles seven Pair of Alice Ditto three Starx Ditto three Golf Share Ditto four Ditto fee in Silver four Pair of Gar net Mar-Rings several Pair of Gold Wires a Bunch of deals a urven Dopskin Renee Cafe fer in Silver several Trinkers and Hair lockers and several other Sorts of Jewellers. Whoever will bring the above Effects to Mr Jonas Phillips in Squark's Court Longon or to Mr Levy Wolf ac Dorts moud Common shall have five Guineas Reward. If offered to be pawn'd or sold, pray stop them and you shall have the same Reward.
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Yolen
Uefuay
Perignnac
Ap Savciane
Mori
Cearcesos
Jonas Phillips
Levy Wolf
Dortsmoud
Auction notices for diverse English estates and holdings
A long OCR excerpt advertises multiple property sales in Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Surrey and London. Listings include freehold, copyhold and leasehold estates with timber, fields, woodlands and manors. Auctions are set at Guiltnall Doncoay and Covent Garden, with varied structures and furnishings described.
Postscript from a London neighbor and a royal pretender
A rambly postscript by Francis Wronghead laments corn disputes and parish costs while mocking court politics. He visits Broad Street and Old Jewry, notes Pay Office barriers, beef prices, and eats beef steak at King James the First’s Head Inn. He signs off as a humble servant.
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Richard
Yorkshire
Mount
Faust
Ciy
Lovern
Gine
Jaimes
Farron
Francis Wronghead
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