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Court Appoints and Dismissals Amid Post Office Reorg
Baron de Lenthe presiding in Appellation Court appoints Thomas Jackson deputy comptroller and replaces James Holcombe, while John Cooper is dismissed and Joan Stair succeeds him in the Foreign Department. Also notes Samuel Jarvis chosen organist at St Boolph, marriages in Dublin, deaths and illnesses across Ireland and England, a London earthquake shock, a Houndsditch fire, a Smock Alley theatre smoke incident, grain prices at Bearkey, a Brentford hunt flag crossing the Thames, executions ordered for woollen cloth theft, a suspected murder near Chick Lane, a beggar woman taken to Bridewell, and local gossip on social misdeeds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Foreign Department
General Post Office
Samuel Jarvis
St. Boolph
Bishopsgate
Dublin
Capt
Leeton
Maria Graydon
John Graydon
Harristown
Ireland
Cialway
Henry Ruffel
Theodore Ruffel
Dragoons
Limerick
Galway
Col
Ruffel
Cinaries
Daniel Nichols
Hendon
Middlesex
Temple
John Shaw
James Ennis
City of London
Walbrook
Osborn
Guiley-Hole
Houndsditch
Bearkey
Brentford Hunt
Hounslow-heath
Thames
Isleworth
Richmond
Newgate
David Spence
John Carlow
Crane
Old Ford
Thomas Fletcher
Luke Paine
John Lamb
Chick-lane