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Massive list of sheriffs chosen for each county in 1720s England
A record lists appointments of sheriffs for numerous counties by royal command in a Court of Exchequer session. Names include Blagrave Watchfield Head Compton Trumbull East Hampstead Wright Hew-Green Franklin and many others across Buckingham to York. Fire at Mrs Cranmer’s sugar houses. several executions ordered after cabinet council. Smuggling arrest at Dulwich. cabinet council reports thirteen malefactors to be executed. mercy granted to one. East India Company receives ship leak news. Jamaica-bound ships report mutinies and captures. export cargo details. dispute over Spanish visitation Restrictions noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Blagrave
Watchfield
Thomas Head
Compton
Trumbull
East Hampsteld
Esqhire
John Wright
Hew-Green
John Franklin
Great Barford
Oliver Edwards
Carrington
Buckingham
Michael Seare
Malworth
John Piggot
Dodderthal
Richard Kierigg
Fulmer
Rland
Joseph Dacre
Apulby
Henry Fletcher
Hutton
Richard Cooke
Cammarton
Sir Charles Duckingfield
Robert Hyde
Cattenhall
Robert Walley
Laughton
John Johnson
Kinneth
Cambr
Tyingtey Ascomb
Fox
Commissioners of Excise
Southwark
John Lade
St. James’s
Serjeant
Urling
Newgate
Joseph Upton
Allen
Henry Fluellin
Henry Davis
Strand
Charles Goulding
Ward
Hampstead
Thomas Raby
Northampton
Dean Briant
Edward Barcock
Stephen Broughton
Long-Acre
Jonathan Thomas
George Whalley
John Machell
John Foster
Powell
William Silvetter
Mr. Southall
Ratcliff Highway
Thomas Jones
Brown
Dr. Jackson
London Bridge
Sarah Woodcock
Thomas Pulpin
Dolly
Helsbourn
England
The
East India Company
Deal
Duke of Lorain
France
Benjamin
Bedloo
Jamaica
Smith
Amsterdam
Cape de Verd
Hopewell
Wheatley
London
Newcastle
North Yarmouth
Parker
Plymouth
Bristol
Portugal
Ireland
East India
Hambourg