Watchman Breaks Open Door Then Thief Caught
A Lonest Watchman on Coleman Street found a door on the latch and entered a house. He removed items, later informed the family the door was ajar, and was later taken before the Lord Mayor and committed to the Wood Street Compter. Other items tell of trials, sieges, and letters from Vienna to Paris, with a grim mix of crime notices and military dispatches.
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Coleman-street
Pete
Wood Street
John Woodham
Herbert
King-fieee
Cheapside
Speedwell
Rogers
London
Seville
St. Lucar
Holland
France
Gratitude to the King Emphasized in Address of Honor
A courteous exhortation praises the King’s benevolence and urges the recipient to prove they deserve royal favor. The writer expresses confidence that personal dispositions will demonstrate merit and commitment in honoring the sovereign.
Week of Diseases and Casualties Reported
The document lists weekly disease tallies including consumption, fever, smallpox, dropsy, and convulsions with hundreds affected, plus suicides and murders. Burials total 411 with 303 deaths and 55 fewer burials than the prior week, noting ages under two years, and various age brackets. It also records bread prices set by the Lord Mayor and Aldermen, bank and stock figures, and assorted financial instruments from 1738.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Srarty
Robbery of North Mail from London Warning Reward
General-Post-Office announces that the North Mail from London was robbed by a single footman between three and four in the morning near Keagsland. A reward of two hundred pounds is offered for the apprehension of the robber or any accomplice, with a royal pardon on discovery. A description: a middle-sized man in a light close-bodied coat with a fall wig. Five boys seized and part of the letters stolen from Enfield Ware St Epes and Royston bags. two men suspected as accomplices.
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London
Tria
Keagsland
Ie Ohn
Jessz
Hartford
Peterborouts
Hors
Aftle
Louth
Boston
Enfield
Ware
St. Epes
Royston
N. B
Robbery on Bristol Mail Near Knightsbridge Solved Reward
General-Post-Office in London announces a highway robbery this morning between Knightsbridge and Kensington. The Bristol mail from London was seized by three men on horseback and a fourth on foot, with bags from Bristol Bath Hereford Léeminster and Presteigne carried off. A reward of ten thousand pounds is offered for the capture or information leading to the capture of the Pixtons and any accomplices, with a royal pardon for those who cooperate.
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London
Hereas
Bristol
Knights-Bridge
Kenington
Abba
Bath
Hereford
Leominster
Presteign
John Jesse
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Vienna
N.S
Constantinople
Stockholm
Sweden
Berlin
Prussia
Francfort
Colloxedo
Germany
Rome
Staffano
Palambora
Milan
Rezus
Hungary
Parma
Placentia
Sar
Dinia
Tortonna
Amsterdam
Hague
Juliets
Bergue
Prince of
Sultzbach
Bergue and
Juliers
Great Britain
Spain
Don Thomas Geraldino
Madrid
M. Amelor
Chamber of Commerce
Antwerp
Versailles
Ryswick
Paris
M. Chauvelin
Cardinal de Fleury
South Sea
Prem
India
Royal Exchange Assurance
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