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Sudden Deaths and Notable News From the Week
A run of varied notices reports the deaths of Eleanor Hays of Wanstead and six week old Master Yonge, and Sir Cane James Bart of Bury Suffolk. Other items include a banking clerk’s fatal fall near Hackney, royal nuptial congratulations, a clerical arrest rumor, a major fire at Stoney Stratford, a tavern keeper’s brutal murder, and suspect ledbury toll robberies. Corsican and European politics, including Baron de Neuhoff’s Corsican crown, and Vienna diplomacy are summarized with troop movements and treaties. Reports of ships, trade, and a Turkish Company voyage add to a dense, mixed-period news page.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eleanor Hays
Lewis Hays
Wanstead
Essex
Joseph Martin
Master Yonge
William Yonge
Bath
Bury
Suffolk
Cane James, Bart
Haeftrecht
Holland
Cane James
Susan
Peter Soame
Haidon
Bart
Anne
Francis Philips
Inner-Temple
Esg
Sunbury
Middlesex
John James Barr
Sprigs
Colebrook
Hackney Road
Westminster
Lord Sondon
Charles Wager
Prince of Wales
King’s Bench
Earl of Northampton
Stoney-Stratford
Northamptonshire
Fountain Tavern
Katherine-street
Strand
James Binis
Thomas Reynolds
Newgate
Worcester
Ledbury-Turnpike
Herefordshire
John Rogers
Ratcliff
Canterbury
Justice de Veil
John Netherton
Westgate
Godde
Duke of Bolton
Westminister
Knight
Rufdymb
Berks
Windsor
Water’ Oakly
Jim
Braywick
Clements
Ruffél
Perésfourgh
London
Haysborough Saunds
Thursuay
Rogers
Bell
Turky Company
Portmouth
Scanderoba
Corsica
Baron de Neuhoffe
Bastia
Theodore I
Theodore
Spain
Vienna
Lorraim
Don Carlos
Venice
Naples
Tuscany
Parma
Placentia
Sicily
Carloss
Belgrade
Sclavonia
Italy
France
Germany
Poland
Lorrain
Vienna’ Tay
Prince Eugenes
de Einperdt
Prati
George
Gres Buia
Republick of
Republic of
Veliite
Prilsfia
Chiari
Logrdin
Folfan