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Untitled Local Crime Report From Old Cornwall Discussed
In Cornwall a man reportedly attempted to spill Sunpowder into a rock to cause an explosion. The event allegedly led to fatal injury on the spot. Nearby, a soldier from the 77th Regiment, quartered in town, broke into a box at the George in Briggate and stole around 201 in money and some wearing apparel.
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Sheeborne
Quetrock
Cornwall
Ates
Leeds
77Th Regiment of Foot
the George
Briggate
Richmond
Knighthbridge
Thornby
Nottinghamhire
Barn Elms
YY Council
Gray’s Inn
Greenwich Road
John Elliott
Thurot
Commodore Forrest
Jamaica
Admiralty
Lord Mansfield
Islington
New-River Company
Goswell-street
St.Thomas’s Hospital
Akenside
Watson
eBordyce
George Fordyne
Old Bailey
William Donaldson
Thomas Harley
St. Martin’s Ludgate
Adlington
Lancashire
Richard Clayton
Court of Common Pleas
Ireland
Cha. Murray
Borrowstonnefs
Distaff Lane
London
GaHon
Tod
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Epsom