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Racing gossip and royal court notices spill from Sunderland to Windsor
A fragmented 18th century chronicle details horse races at Sunderland won by Aleppo and Cocking Quaker, with social notes on marriages and aristocratic intrigues. It reports deaths including Lady Downing and Radcliffe Smith, court movements, envoys, elections in Hertfordshire and Dartford, smuggling raids, shipwrecks, naval cruizers, and Windsor stewardship appointments amid a volatile political climate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
Sunderland
Duke of Hamilton
Aleppo
Firbank
Cocking Quaker
Willian Forrester
Gray’s Inn
Ge Radcliffe Smith
St. Bartholomew, Bridewell
Bethlem
Radcliffe
University of Oxford
Bugenter
St. James’s
Miss Deberty
Mr. Deberty
John Spicer
Mall Wares
Fleet-street
Gray’s Inn Chapel
Aifs Egerton
Pind Becton
Mlefex
Sunbury Common
Egham
Old Windsor
Hampton-Court
Duke of To
Newcastle
Berlin
M. Boick
Fiscon
Rhine
Stanislaus
Baron Stork
Mifkey
Holstein-Gortorp
Churchill
Regiment of
Dugoons
Evans Gurts
Tany
King’s Arms
Driver
Guildhall
Eeesley
Datel Lampbert
Eigrs
London
Middlesex
Timmit
Webber
Cooyers Hall