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Marriages and royal notices from Whitehall to Carlton House
News items record yesterday's marriage at Whitehall Chapel of Darrell Short of Wadhurst Sussex to Miss Martha Kemp daughter of the late Sir Robert Kemp of Abberton Hall with lavish entertainment at Lady Kemp's in Westminster. Also noted are clerical appointments, royal appointments in Suffolk and South Carolina, naval dispatches, smuggling trials, multiple obituaries, court sentences, and foreign dispatches from Paris Madrid and Antwerp detailing battles, diplomacy, and political maneuvering.
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Darrell Short
Waddhurst
Sussex
Eigg
Whitehall Chapel
Thomas Lord Bishop
Norwich
Martha Kemp
Robert Kemp
Abberton Hall
Bart
Suffolk
Kemp
Queen-street
Westmintster
Potter
Canterbury
Blackburn
Preston
Lancashire
Robert Walpole
Bristol
Prince and Princess of Wales
Carlton House
Cliefden
Bucks
Edward Clarke
Ipswich
Edward Lynch
Deceas
Alexander Glynn
North Britain
South Carolina
Samuel ‘Horsey Deceas
Woolwich
Haddock
Mediterranean
Chichester
St. Clement’s Eastcheap
St. Martin Orgars
Tennison
Medlycott
Weymouth
Flipp
Man of War
Paris
Peter Nivelon
Francis Nivelon
Theatre-Royal
Covent-Garden
Mont. la Perch
Scarborough
Thomas Robinson
Fe’nnight
John Deffray
Old Romney
South Lambeth
William Smith
Surrey
Thomas Bourne
Globe and Scepter
Old Jewry
Hamlin
Tooley Street
Oliver Lloyd East
George Champion
Alderman
Bridge-Ward
Lee
Kent
John Mead
Ely
Fleet-treer
Hope
Hertfordshire
Mary Gaseen
Green
Gainsborough
New England
Goodman’s Fields
Peckham
Carter
London Bridge
Spain
Westminter
Wallace
White Hart
Five-Vields
Chelsea
Sussex Indiaman
Madagascar
Wood
Stoney-street
Southwark
George Alehouse
St. Leens Church
Jonathan Thomas
George Whalley
Thomas Croffwhite
King-Street
Cheapside
Sarah Woodcock
Eliz. Banford
France
Gravelines
Flanders
Gibraltar
Constantinople
Tuly
Hungary
Cornia
Murtaza
Bashaw
Tor-Bathaw
Carcinal de Bicury
Marly
la Muette
Isly
Madrid
America
Utrecht
N. S
Cardinal de Fleur
Prussia
Salizbourg
Kingdom of
Rhine
Flickling
Sultzbach
Britain
Holland
Antwerp