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London gossip and theatre note from Westminster and beyond
A column reports on the Fhuridiy play in Jamés-street before Prince of Bruthwick with noted patrons. Covent-Garden patent buyers cited as Rutherford and Harris, Foote enlarges Haymarket, Yates linked to Covent Garden with salary and benefit. Also mentions marriage of John Palmer to Mercy Nightingale, deaths in Bologna and Hertfordshire, Jesuit settlement in Oxford Road, a Dublin duel, ships for floating batteries, heavy snow, prison petition for Ely, craft laborers, body theft case, highwayman robbery on Mr Tudor, and various foreign and colonial intelligence from Madrid Jamaica and Newfoundland.
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Fhuridiy
Penitent
Severn Reat
Jamés-street
Westminster
Prince’of
Foote
Haymarket
Yates
Covent- Marden
Beard
Dunstall
Shirer
Jaft
St. Andrew's Holborn
John Palmer
Leather-lane
Miss Mercy-Nightingale
Baldwin's Gardens
Mr. Palmer
Wandworth
Bologne
France
Plunket
London
Maclean
Reddall
Buntingford
Hertfordshire
Lis
Oxford Road
Dublin
Deptford
Gambia
North Road
Isle of Ely
Taylors
Samuel Fludyer
Alderman Peers
Guildhall
Bridewell
Joseph Picket
James Smith
Sarah Willis
John Levy
Southwark Bridewell
Picket
Cadwallader Tudor
Middle Temple
Putney Common
Mr. Tudor