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Charitable bequests and public notices in a 1738 London column
The column records obituaries and donations by Christopher Whichcote EG aged 87 eight, listing funds to Christ Church Hospital St Thomas's St Bartholomew's Bethlehem London Workhouse and other choired charities. It also reports a Royal Exchange quarrel, church appointments, excise trials, thefts in Westminster Abbey, cargo news, and the Lord Mayor’s Day preparations with detailed street-ward orders for crowd control and passage routes.
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Esterday
Wallbrook
Oldry
Hackney
Christopher Whichcote
Christ- Church Hospital
St. Thomas’s
St.Bartholomew’s
Bethlehem
London
Ireland
Royal Exchange
Forbes
Clare-Hall
Cambridge
Commissioners' of Excise
Thomson
Compter
Elizabeth Cull
Westminster Abbey
Bath
Theobald Taaffe
Earl of Carlingford
Jefsop
Prince of Orange
Smith
Antigua
Liverpool
Holyhead
Anglesea
Barbadoes
Scotland
Scotlands
East-India
Portugal
Maryland
France
Bashaw
Constantinople
Wassaw
N.S
Munich
Poland
Pruth
Rome
Naples
Parma
Placentia
Two Sicilies
Hague
Paris
Spain
Don Geraldino
Keene
Amsterdam
Court of
Marquis de St. Gilles
Marquis de St.-Gilles
States General
M. Vander Meer
Madrid
Great Britain