Malignant fever aboard East Indiaman prompts naval quarantine
An East Indiaman near the pithead experiences a malignant fever outbreak. Many aboard fall ill or die daily while two sick officers die and are cremated by physicians orders. A man of war is positioned nearby to curb contact as an express to the Admiralty awaits guidance.
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Admiralty
Lords nominate sheriffs for counties across England and Wales
The Privy Council and judges in Westminster Hall appoint three gentlemen from each county to serve as sheriff for the coming year. Names include Sir William Stonehouse in Berkshire and many peers and gentry across Bedfordshire Bucks Cumberland Cornwall Devonshire Dorsetshire Essex Gloucestershire Hertfordshire Leicestershire Lancashire Lincolnshire Monmouthshire Northamptonshire Norfolk Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Rutland Shropshire Staffordshire Suffolk Southampton and more, with nominees listed by county.
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Exchequer-chamber
Westminster- Hall
Berkshire
William Stonehouse
Radley
Jeremiah Crotchley
Sunningan
Vaik
John Watts
Lovell’s Hill
Bedfordshire
Walter Scott
Aspley Guife
Charles ‘Barnett
Stratton
Elgis
Gillias Payne
Tempsford
Bucks
Thomas Dorrell
Fingetts
John 2 Bullock
Colnbrook
Lovel Badcock
Amersham
Cumberland
William Brownrigge
Orthmathwaite
John Spedding
Ormathwaite
George Augustus Stanley
Ponsonby
Cheshire
John Crew
Bolsworth
George Prescott
Eardshaw
Thomas Ashton
Ashley
Cambridge and
Huntingdon
Henry Lyell
Bourne
Christop Anstey
Trumpington
Geoffrey Nightingale
Kneesworth
Cornwall
Nicholas Avent
Trevillian
Thomas‘Jones
Trinity
John Call
Whiteford
Devonshire
Richard Doidge
Elford Leigh
Charles Hayne
Lupton
John Duke
Otterton
Dorsethire
John” Newton
Spelisbury
Harvey Ekins
Warewood
Bart
Kent
William Daniel
Masters
Mereworth
James Flint
Ospringe
Horatio Man
Bishopsborne
Elgrs
Leicestersiire
John Darker
Stoughton
Lebbeus Humfrey
Kibworth
Harcourt
Shuttleworth
Great Bowden
Lancashire
Lincolnshire
Cowley Palme
David Field
Ulceby
Marton
Charles Alderson Pelham
Brogklesby
Monmouthshire
John Hanbury Williams
of Leonfort
Thomas: Fletcher
Monmouth
Tho. Evans
Longettock
Northumberland
Richard Wharton
Cooperton
Charles
Thomas' Bigge
Little Benton
Francis Blake
Crawley
Northamptonshiire
Sir’ William “Wake
Cowrton
Tho’ Baynon
Spratten
Allen Young
Aldingbury
Norfolk
John. Marcon
Swaffham
John Balders
Efgrs
Oxfordshire
William Draper
Nether Worton
Thomas Willets
Caversham
Wm. Lenthail
Upton
Signet
Rutlabgshire
Thomas Ballivent
Athwell
Joseph Stubbins
Barrowden
Ears
Gilbert Heathcote
Normanton
Shropshire
Joseph Griffiths
Dinthill
John Kinchent
Park John
Dod
Whitchurch
Somerseshire
Henry Cornish
Henley
Lee
Thomas Coward
Preshford
John Pigott
Brockley
Staffordshire
Thomas Hoo
Barr
Sir Thomas Broughton
Broughton
John
Williamson
Stafford
Eig
Suffolk
John Freston Scrivener
Lipton
Nathaniel Aston
Bromford
Thomas Maynard
Wrentham
Southampton
Richard Maidman
Wickham
John Richards
Hambleton
Edward Goddard
East Woodley
Parliamentary shifts and whispers from a crowded session
The piece catalogs new MPs sworn in to fill seats after deaths and resignations, naming Richard Oliver, Sir James Pennyman, Sir William Guile, Charles Penrudduck, Thomas Herbert, Lord Caterlough, William Steuart, and Serjeant Leigh among others. It notes political maneuvering, public speech plans from Lord Chatham, and reports on plague rumors, a jail distemper on a Dutch ship, and court acknowledgments.
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William Beckford
Scarborough
Yorkshire
James, Pennyman
Fountayne Wentworth Osbaldiston
Gloucestershire
Sir William Guile
Thomas Tracy
Wilts
Charles
Penruddock
Tho.Goddard
Ludlow
Thomas Herbert
Edward Herbert
Milborne Port
Lord
Lord Chatham
Europe
Westminster
Lord Camden
Camden-Place
Kent
Samuel’ Pennant
London
Old Bailey
Batavia
Lord Mansfield
Cane-Wood
King’s‘Bench
Common Pleas
Horne
Epsom
King’s Bench
House of Lords
Smith
6Th Regiment of Foot
Rufare
Thames Navigation
Oxford
Nicholls
Lethhlade
Walker
Freeman
Clayton
Palmer
City of London
Grosvenor
Port of Deal Shipping Arrivals and Departures Summary
Nov 9 to 16 records arrivals and sailings at Deal and surrounding ports. Ships including Diligence, Duke of Gloucester, Experiment, George and Mary, Hero, and several transports plus vessels like Brilliant and Beverley proceed to or from the river. Minor entries note Jamaica, Bristol, Portsmouth, and Nevis connections with multiple captains and transport names.
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Southampton
Poole
Duke “of Gloucester
Havre-de- Grace
Wilkinson
Sunderland
Thomas
Auntie
Littlefair
Whitby
Prebble
Nevis
Standlinch
Johnson
Earl of ‘Effingham
Curling
Jamaica
Mitre
Hooper
Deal
Brilliant
Stockdale
Portsmouth
Rachel
Mary
Innis
West- Indies
Bryan
Gill
Newnham
Rogers
Sprinfield
Coates
Argo
Portmouth
Elizabeth
Malley
St. ‘Kit’s
Nancy
Cleiland
the Peters
Wader
Quebec
Success
Stonehouse
Stetting
Kitchen
Dantzick
Unity
Memell
Loxton
Senégal
Jane
Downs
Honduras
Expectation
Wake
Adiventure
Snow
Antigua
Britannia
Smith, Botton
Aldborough
Printed FE church yard notice from 19th century column
Fragmentary OCR reads like a church yard notice mentioning Newey and Paul with a brief date or value, attributed to David yley Aal. The legible bits suggest a memorial or parish record item with scant context and no clear event details.
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Newey, Paul's
David Yley
Familiar Legal Terms in Elizabethan Court Reports
A fragmentary notice of historical legal language from the King's Bench and Queen Elizabeth era. Mentions terms like bail, conspiracy, magistrates, and sessions. Indicates a supplement to a translated record with orders and decrees from sessions.
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W. Grifins
Catherine
King’s Bench
King's Bench
Riz Mastrer
ArPeal
Eliz
Edward Coké
Pectoral Lozenges and Counterfeit Lot Claims
A Fragment from 1769 describes Pectoral Lozenges touted to ease coughs hoarseness and chest complaints while noting a counterfeit batch linked to a chemist and apothecary at No 7 Street. It warns the public to beware of fakes bearing the inscription on the lid.
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Famer
T.a. Chymist
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