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Edinburgh Mayors Warn Citizens Against Bad Halfpence
Edinburgh magistrates announce a government-like warning to inhabitants about circulating bad halfpence. Across Chester and Norwich reports detail a cabinet-maker murder case, with Bateman mortally wounded and the suspect at large. Other notes cover mayoral election, local marriages, grain imports, and royal plans, reflecting 1767 news from multiple towns.
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Edinburgh
Mary Falkoner
Country News
Chester
Thomas Bateman
Bateman
Pott
Norwich
Thomas Staffing
Henry Crowe
Mass Haylett
Little Frankham
Smyth
Hamersfield and Sancroft
Suffolk
Adair
Yarmouth
Holland
Flanders
Bury
William Davenport
Martha Toofey
Toofty
Haffell
Oxford
Viscount Wenman
Gents Beaver
Crowelly
Gibbons
Bristol
Thomas Willoughby
Alston
Rotterdam
Cornelius
Harwood
Fane
Volkert
Dantzick
Northampton
Tur Market
Queen
Richmond
Hereford
Sir John Morgan
St. James’s
Baffeterre
St. Chrisopher’s
Ape- Dyer
Anta Feresa
Grenada
Dyer
Melvill
Cohorn
Elizabeth
O‘mallay
St. Kit’s
St. John’s
Barbadoes
Antigua
St. Christopher's
Snow
Thomas Jarvis
Elys
Dundas
68Th Regiment
Looby
Byam
Duer