Bath Seen Busy Season as Royalty Dignitaries Attend
A long Gazette notes Bath may be fuller this season. Obituaries announce George Lewis Langton of Cardigan Mire and Brecknockshire, late Magdalen College scholar, and John Egerton of Tatton. Succession details for Langton’s estate are given, with another notice of Master Cantillon and Rev John Troutbeck among recent deaths. Local society tidbits include a Royal Council at Kensington, healing aid for Wellingborough fire sufferers, a proposed marriage between Dr Cotton and Anne Pembroke, and assorted market and shipping updates from Worcester races to Lisbon trade.
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Lumley Sanderson
George Lyttleton
Prince and Princess of Wales
Bath
Rome
George Lewis Langton
Cardigan Mire
Brecknockshire
Magdalen College, Oxford
Walter Pryfe
Castleard
Cheshire
John Egerton
Tatton
Gatton
Surrey
Newland
Kensington
John Verney
Earl and Countess of
Cardigan
Wellingborough
Cotton
St. Alban’s
Anne Pembroke
Joshua Pembroke
County of Hertford
Holland
West-Indies
Great Britain
Spain
Perons
Worcester
Watkin Wiliams Wyrin
Eig
Tunbridge, &c
John Troutbeck
Arneborough
Worthamptonshire
Bedingfield
Cecil-street
Strand
Ee Robert Bedingfield
Bayor
Robbery of North Mail Post Boy Near Kingsland 1738
General Post Office notes a footpad robbed the London bound North Mail near Kingsland between two and three this morning. Reward two hundred pounds on conviction or for disclosure. Details describe a middle aged man in a light coat with a bob wig and mask, last seen with bags from Hartford Peterborough Horncastle Louth and Boston. Two accomplices observed at a distance.
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Laft
Brook-House
Hackney
Groves
Leaden-hall-street
East- India Company
Ashley
London
Ludgate-hill
Excise
Blomer
Sydenham
Hays
Mr. Blomer
Maidstone
Thompson
Shadwell
Thames
France
Spain
Portugal
Kingsland
Parliament
Joan Jesse
Hartford
Peterborough
Horncastle
Louth
Boston
Enfield
Ware
Selves
Royston
M. B
Suppos
Post-Office robbery offer in London 1738
General-Post-Office London reports a Bristol Mail robbery by three horsemen and a footpad between Knightsbridge and Kensington. Rewards total two hundred pounds plus parliamentary rewards for capture or accomplice confession, with royal pardon for the informer. Post-Master-General orders public notice signed John Jesse.
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General-Post-Office
London
Post-Bay
Bristol
Knights-Bridge
Kensington
Bath
Hereford
L&ominster
Presteign
John Jesse
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Bank
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Royal Exchange Assurance
London Dicto
Glish Gopper
Prem
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