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Debtors, Deserters, and Trials Near London Streets
Report covers police tricks from gaming houses near Covent Garden, highwaymen, and thieves. Notable cases include Gallaway’s reprieve after robbery, two Nottingham affixes convicts for murder and theft, and multiple commitals for fraud, robbery, and larceny across Gatehouse and Newgate. Exported wheat and shipments to Portugal noted amid foreign dispatches and military discipline discussions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Husbands
Aid
Worcestershire
Covent-Garden
Nottingham
William Reading
John Harwood
James Giddins
Dartford
Kent
St. George’s Fields
Southwark
Guildford
Surrey
Westminster
Fraser
Katharine Gardener
Tothill-fields
Clerkenwell Bridewells
Francis Man
Col. de Veil
Mary Perry
Polly Peachum
Anne Griffith
Parrott
Newgate
Col
de Veil
Daniel Fletcher
Tottenham Court Road
Henrietta Maria Giles
Anne Rook
Jang Turner
Newgate-street
Portugal