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Tragedy of Sir Richard Brocas and Crowded London Notices
Much lamented. Last Sunday night the Corpse of Sir Richard Brocas was privately interred in the parish church vault at Alhallows Breadstreet. He died in his sixth year, leaving a widow Lady Brocas and a daughter. Also noted are church appointments at St Mary at Hill and Woodnesborough living shares, convictions for retailing liquor, and robberies by Islington footpads. Letters from Havana, Schaffhausen, Paris, and Hamburg discuss naval affairs, prize risks, English and Spanish ministerial tensions, and a birthday feast dispute at Count d Uhlefeldt's. Market items report South Sea stock and financial listings.
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Richard Brocas
Alhallows Breadsheer
Lady Brocas
Bakes
Bread-street
Woodnesborough
Sandwich
Kent
John Billingsley
Newington
Oxford
Mary Wincles
John Hastings
Randal Wallworth
Margaret Johnsoni
St. Giles’s In the Fields
John Brand
St. Mary le Strand
Anne Bride
Hammond
St. James’s
Col. de Veil
A&t
St. Giles’s
Bridewell
Islington
Elliot
Lane
Waggot
Wilkinson
Clerkenwell-Bridewell
New-Prison
Jamaica
Charles
Way
de la Mott
London
Altho
P. S
Cape St. Augustine
Carolina
Georgia
Paris
Rennes
Seguin
Bretagne
Europe
Hambourg
Petersbourg
Russian Empire
Black Sea
Hague
Sir Thomas Geraldine
Great Britain
America
South-Sea Company
Spain
Havanna
Oglethorpe
Crown of