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Westminister Quarter Sessions Deaths Murders and Naval News
Reports from Westminster Quarter Sessions recount a woman found dead with her throat cut at a lodgings near Lincoln's Inn behind Will's Coffee House, plus a drowning near King's Stairs. The record also notes executions for murder and burglary, transportation sentences, and scattered maritime dispatches from Lisbon, Jamaica, and Port Royal, including Admiral Vernon and fleet movements.
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City
Liberty
Westminster
Lincoln’s Inn
Will
Dees
Whitehead
King’s Stairs
Botderhithe
Fountain Stairs
Crown
Dorchester
Henry Smith
Joan Mew
William King
Benjamin Flewell
Flewell
Lady Grace
Hay
Blandford
William Turner
Harnet
Smith
Oporto
Carolina
Jamaica
Leith
Scotland
Hampton-Coury
Port-Royal
Vernon
Chaloner ‘Ogle
Charles Wager
Lisbon
O. S
Newcastle
Rio De]aneiro
Brazil
Warvas
Lifbon
Sarah
Plymouth
Texel
Amsterdam
Polly
Parker
Newfoundland
Oporta
Viana
Bayonne