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Obituary notes and dispatches from London and Europe
London notices die at dawn of Friday with many deaths including Hedworth of Durham and Forbes of Chelsea. ships, diplomacy, and finance figures, plus captive reinforctions from Mequinex and crowding news from Berlin Paris and Vienna. The piece reports deaths, donations, ship actions, and shifting alliances amid war scares and royal mercy.
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Durham
Hedworth
John Hedworth
County of
Church Lane
Chelsea
Forbes
Lord Forbes
Kingdom of
Scotland
Chelsea Church
Laft
Feneforch Street
Gerard Swartz
Jaft
Drurylane
King
King’s Arms
Wild-street
Holt
Tower-street
Hardman
Hungerford
Strand
Jacob Wachter
Corporation of the London Assurance
Weller
Steward-street
Spittle-Fields
Cone
Henry Bowater
St. Bartholomew’s Hospital
Woolwich
Kingbury Church
Edgworth
Bowater
Samuel Davenport
Christ’s Hospital
Peter Selby
Queen Anne
Mequinez
St. James’s House
Admiralty Office
Charles Wager
Admiral Perez
Fez
Morocco
Clifford William Phillips
France
George Robinson
Great Marlow
Bucks
Lombard-street
Cyril Wich
Hambourg
Denmark
Spithead
Brest
Cadiz
Toulon
Berlin
Prussia
Brandenbourg
Scwedt
Anhalt
Potsdam
Bareith
Anspach
Caroline
Brunswick- Beveren
Baron de Ginkell
Porsdan
Holland
House of Hefiz
Caffel
Germany
Duke of Lorrain
Don Carlos, Infante of
Portugal
Paris
Fontainbleau
Naples
Sicily
Lombardy
Vienna
Joseph Kinski
Europe
Turin
Earl of Essex
Sardinia
Bozolo
Rhine
Wirtemberg