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Notable Courtroom and Highwaymen Notes from Rumford to Hounslow
A historic column reports on aristocrats and scandal, detailing Frances Ryley’s attempted suicide, French desperados in London, and a rash of highway robbery across Piccadilly to Hounslow. Grain prices rise. Rumford fair shows many horses. St Margaret’s Hill session jails three felons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Scott
Houthuld
Princess Dowager of Wales
Cholmondeley Scorn
Bockland
Regiment of Foot
Privy Chamber
Thomas Bett
Paliament
City of
Canterbury
Frances Ryley
Borough Compter
France
Marquis de Frateaux
Blaisdell
Rumford Fair
Bearkey
Piccadilly
Paddington
Tyburn Turnpike
Fancherd
Taylor
King-street
Golden-square
Ragsden
Bond-street
Turnham-green
Kew-bridge
Hammersmith
Bath
Bristol
Hounslow-heath
Smallbury-green
Sheriff Harley
St. Margaret’s Hill
Southwark
Elizabeth MacLeod
James Willis
Richard Rice
Death