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Robbery convictions and royal travel reports from December 1733
The text recounts convictions for a December 19 1733 robbery with defendants Blackwell alias Long and Brown and Whitlock, aided by Ralph Mitchell’s testimony. It notes transportation sentences, and follows with a stream of society news: the Prince of Modena’s Dover landing, Chester mayoral election, the death of Governor Boone, clerical and military appointments, hospitalities, and various European diplomatic dispatches and court movements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fiam ‘Blackwell
Long
Will
Brown
Whitlock
Ralph Mitchell
Blackwell
Feron Curtis
Cal. Ros Rowslue
Ang
Bosdenham
Bally
London
Ireland
Holbourn
Perforis
George Sutton
Boother -Folin
Seffions'aga,s
Seffiotis
Wynne 'Lils
Macray
Prince of
Modena
Dover
Cassis
St. James’s-street
Prince of Wales
John Corgrave
Chester
Court
Win
Speed
Peter Potter
Cacen
Boone
India
Bombay
Bengal
Chardin
Fort St. George
Daniel Boone
Ludgershall
Col. Garth
George Evelyn
Rooks Nest
Surrey
Ely
Lee
Kent
Mary Boone
Knight
Thorp Malfor
Kettering
Northamptonshire
Manell
Zutphen
Baron Keppel
Thie Earl of
Litchfield
Gerard Elsington
Tatton
Regiment of Foot
Elrington
Anne Gerrard