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Wealth and Power in the Conqueror Era and Court Crimes
A long fragment details feudal reliefs and royal revenues as the Conqueror’s lands become hereditary, outlining the crown's income from fines and a proposed royal peace establishment of about 5,400 troops. It shifts to a letter about Marsial of the King’s Bench Prison, alleging brutal treatment, then moves to international dispatches from Warsaw, Stockholm, and Constantinople with notes on revolts, finances, fortifications, and shipping, including court appointments and local trials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Europe
War Department
Public Ledger
Mr. Saphen
England
Caen Wood
Distemper
Miss Murray
King’s Bench
Lord Mansfeld
the East India Company
Kent
J. Milles
Ponsonby
S. Hough
Madeira
Coast
China
Worcester
J. Cook
Prince
J. Dundas
Princess Royal
KR. Ker
Bencoolen
E. Berrow
St. Helena
Gravesend
Downs
R. Morrison
Valentine
J. Ogilvie
Nourthington
J. Sealy
Houghton
W.laith
Bay
J. Lander
the Downs
Duke of Portland
J. Sutton
Bridgewater
N. Skotton
Egmont
C. Mears
Harcourt
N Paul
Latham
J. Prince
Coast and Bay
Hawke
J. Cotton
Bombay
Resolution
T. Pointing
Bengal
T. Riddel
Europa
H. Pelly
Mocha
Vansitrart
R. Young
D.G. Loar
Count Braganga
Great Ormond Street
Madrid
Guildhall
Frederick Bull
Queenhithe
Joseph Martin
Lombard-street
Lime-street
Common Council of
St. Sepulchre
Fleetlane
Worshipful Company of Butchers
Pudding-lane
William Worth
Tower-street
Robert Arrowsmith
James Halliday
James Dunce
Thomas Cox
Robert Newton
Clement Bellamy
Stephen Williams
Thomas Nath
Cheaptide
Newgate
David Wilmot
Glocefer
Stroud
Pol Jenkins