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Militia sworn at Long Ashton and Bath prison incidents
Bristol reports Militia sworn for Hartcliff Bedminster and Portbury with drinks to his Majesty's Health. Bath notes two Deserters' attempted escape. a drummer was knifed but not mortally. A maidservant robbed a lady of jewels and cash in Bath and pursued to Wells. Port news covers ships in the Downs and in the Baltic. London reports Sir Richard Glyn's election as Lord Mayor and a flurry of European intelligence on Prussia Poland and Russia. Also weathered storms, Cape Breton aims, and naval reinforcements to America. Local items include society notices, obituaries, marriages, and a violent theft in Mitcham Common.
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Country News
Bristol
Fe’anight
Hartcliff
Bedminster
Wells
London
Richard Glyn
Germany
Prince Dé Soubise
Dohna and
Wedel
Saxony
Leipfic
Prussia
Bohemia
Count Daun
Cabick
Courland
Poland
Vienna
Prince Charles
Genoa
Oober
Cape Breton
Louisburgh
Nova Scotia
Grand Bank
Boston
Marble- Heid
Newberry, &c. &c
Cadiz
England
West Indies
Brest
Plymouth
Hussar
Saunders
Ciale
Dowager of Wales
Leicester-house
Soame Jennings
Cambridge
Lord Dupplin
Earl of
Little-Baddow
Chelmsford
Edlex
Maurice Pugh
Miss Herrington
Thurday
St.Giles’s In the Fields
John Power
Bartholomew-Lane
Miss Green-well
Great Queen Street
Great Ruffela Street
Bloomsbury
Mark Hodges
East India Company
Mr. Kirk
Distaff Lane
Cy Vem
Bishopsgate
Clack
Bishopsgate Street
Bearsley
Oporton
Monument Yard
Schomberg
Foundling Hospital
Northampton
Mitcham Common
Chelsea
Kensington
Sarah Payne
Roehampton
Rotherhith
Richard Roman