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Royal appointments and parish livings amid death tolls and stock prices
In Whitehall anointings grant John Lightfoot as Chorographer of the Court of Common Pleas in reversion after Bennet and Campion. Edward Hammond and John Wilcocks receive ecclesiastical livings. The week records 321 burials and various causes from consumption to drownings, with notable executions and suicides. Financial markets show South Sea stock, bank rates, and bonds figures for the period.
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Whitehall
John Lightfoot
Court of Common Pleas
Thomas Bennet
Richard Campion
Elyrs
Edward Hammond
Arts
Dorset
Robert Cowper
John Wilcocks
Matter of Arts
Collumpton
Devon
Exon
River of Thames
St. John
Wapping
St. Mary Magdalen Begnondsey
St. Mary
Rotherhith
St. Saviour’s
Southwwark
St. George
Bloomsbury
Middlesex
Whitechapel
Sc.Mary
Botherhith
St. Giles’s
Sc. James’s
Wettinuntter