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Rife Of Crime And Trade Rumors In 1737 England
Reports from London narrate a series of trivial crimes and moral anxieties. A man hanged for shopkeeping crimes, a wife attempted throat-slitting, and others rescued by neighbors. Notes on hurly-burly auctions for hops, tax protests, threats by anonymous letters, and rising trade data for wheat, gold, and silver from Spain Oporto and Holland accompany dispatches from the Hague about European treaty negotiations and Britain's cautious stance.
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Mosning
Moorfields
Batter
London
Aldgate
Alexander Jones
Newgate
Mary Smith
Col. de Veil
Woodbury Hill Fair
Sussex
Stourbridge-Faire
Joseph Hall
Driggift
Bishopsgate-street
Wellingborough
Portugal
Spain
Oporto
Holland
States General
France
Great Britain
United Provinces
Vienna
Republick
d’Uhrlfeldt