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Disturbance and Executions in London and Edinburgh Headlines
An array of incidents fills the page: Dunkeron's heir gravely ill in Conduit Street. William Meadows JP dying in Kent. a distiller's suicide near Whitechapel. the Papillon family funeral at Lee in Kent. Mary Melcher’s wealth behind a grand funeral at St. Sepulchre. a Marlborough kin pregnancy. protests and proclamations in Edinburgh. horse races near Egham, Oxford, and London. smuggling arrests on London Bridge. a Bristol mayoral election. giant cricket matches at Kennington. a rioting Edinburgh mob and a brutal Port Cour execution through crowd violence. thefts by foot-pads and river drownings. civic relief works in Wapping. and security measures post-riot with guards at the castle and city gates.
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Viscount Dunkeron
Earl of
David Papillon
Efgg
Dover
Lee
Kent
Melcher
Cross-street
Hatton Garden
Smiling Tom
Mr. Reeves
Mr. Woodford
Mr. Downe
Mr. Wight
Mr. Kitchin
Mr. Moore
Mr. Jones
Oxford
Mr. Carter
Galloway
Mr. Smith
Lord Lonfvale
Lord Leigh
Lord Weymouth
Chesnut
Mr. Clark
Boscawen
Viscount
Falmouth
Royal Regiment of Horse
Earl of Pembroke
Thomas Pitt
Old Sarum
John Blackwell
Bristol
Morgan Smith
Jacob Elton
Harding
House of Charity
Kennington Common
Surrey
Cocks- Heath
Maidstone
Powis-Houf
Leghorn
Tunis
Meff. Unwin and Company
Rome
Great Britain
River Thames
John- Lewes
Excise
O’ Glock
Hugh Hill
Poplar
Stepney
London-Bridge
Henry Pulleine
Justice Nichols
Southwark
Finchley- Common
London
Brown
St. Alban’s
Nottinghamshire
Blidworth
Bilby
Nottingham
Henry Rani
New Crane
Wapping
Farthing-Fields
St.George
Brampton-Park Gate
Kensington
Starbitch
Woodberry-Hill
Farnham
N. W
Deal
Tott
Edinburgh
Pest
Wesk
Bell
Tolbgoth
Atalistim