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Rioters and other criminals sentenced in London sessions
Report covers Thursday actions at the King’s Bench and Newgate in London. Ringleaders known as the Rioters were brought for sentencing. two sent to Newgate, two to the King’s Bench due to Lord Hardwicke’s illness. Other trials included a gilding scammer, a chemist dispute with excise, and a Geneva sale case. Also notes highway robbery near Hampton Wick and a large Pilchard haul in Cornwall. Correspondence from Savannah and Edinburgh reports, and a Turkish Company ship arrives at the Downs. News from Virginia mentions harsh winter effects on tobacco.
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Bristol
Teelvemonth
King’s Bench Court
Westmioster
Lord Hardwicke
Newgate
King’s Bench
Northampton
Wheeler
Butler
Ruffel-Street
Covent Garden
Commissioners of Excise
Clive
Edward Roberts
Clerkenwell Bridewell
Justice Wroth
Geneva
Goswell Street
Golden Square
Thomas Simpons
General Post Office
Penzance
Cornwall
Charles Town
John Hammerton
Charles Pinkney
Othniel Beal
General Assembly
Province of
South Carolina
Savanna
Georgia
James Oglethorpe
Edinburgh
Tolbooth
Holyrood- House
Delicia
Witwood
Alexandria
Turky Company
Virginia
Madeira