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Last Fridays deaths and trials in 18th century England
Reports of multiple deaths include Charles Wake fofles of Waltham Abbey in Essex and Mrs Willmot of Surrey. John Rudge MP for Evesham dies. Mrs Leaverland, a Covent Garden woollen-draper, also dies. A report claims William Ellis of Hertfordshire is alive. A fatal boat accident near Gorn-Portersmerret and a sailor’s confession in a Suffolk murder case are noted. A captain repels two footpad attackers near Hayes. Robberies and arrests at Paddington and Newgate are described, alongside Rochester assizes sentences for highway robbery and horse stealing. Channel patrols, Dunkirk, and privateers are mentioned, with recruitment and naval actions at Falmouth and Deal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Friday
Courton
Northamptonshire
Charles Wake Fofles
Waltham Abbey
Baldwin Wake
Jones
Uncles
Elizabeth Sambrooke
Jeremy Vanacker Sambrooke, Bart
Bedford
Tooting
Surrey
Willmot
Wilkmogt
Mark-Lane
John Rudge
Evesham
Worcestershire
Leaverland
Pedford Street
Covent-Garden
Humphreys
Bury
John Gurdon
Asington
Drew
Long Melford
Suffolk
Tims
Asia
Turky Company
Bromley
Hayes
Kent
Maidstone
Falmouth
Elizabeth Graf
Newgate
Col. de Veil
Joseph Baker
Paddington
John Cane
Edward Wren
Sarah Cooth
Robert Muller
Gael Martha
Harding
Solomon Nichols
Rochester
William Hills
Gilbert Langley
John Springate
Samuel Hills
John Smith
William Bacan
Philip Bacan
Deal
Deal-Castle
West
Smith
Channel
Dunkirk
Baker
Pitmans
Hamburg