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Old and New London
… the place acquired considerable notoriety from a fatal duel which was fought there between Colonel Fawcett and … Munro, in which the former was killed. The record of this duel possesses a twofold interest, from the fact of its being … adversary, Lieutenant Munro, to send him a challenge. The duel came off early in the morning of Saturday, July 1, in a …
Old and New London
… that it was in one of them that Ben Jonson killed in a duel Gabriel Spenser, the player. 2 Nearly all the land round …
Old and New London
… Thornhill, Esq., for killing Sir Cholmeley Deering in a duel, 1711; the Marquis di Paleotti, for the murder of his … in Lisle Street, 1718; Major Oneby, for killing in a duel, 1718 and 1726; Jonathan Wild, the thief-taker, 1725; … Captain Macnamara, for killing Colonel Montgomery in a duel, 1803; Aslett, the Bank clerk, for forgery on the Bank …
Old and New London
… which is recorded in the parish register probably means a "duel." Two interesting monuments by Chantrey, which were … where, having challenged one Sir John Guise to fight a duel, he contrives to give his foe the slip: "Back in the …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… with Adam de Pemberton respecting land as to which a duel had been waged; ibid. 454, m. 25. Peter de Burnhull was …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… including gallows, judgement by iron and water and duel, undertaking to pay a rent of 10 yearly, and this was …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… Soc.), 18. Edmund Ashton is said to have been killed in a duel 17 March 16645; he was gentleman of the bedchamber to … Robert Radcliffe, late of Withenshawhe was killed in a duel in 1686; Ormerod, Ches. (ed. Helsby), iii, 617and his …
The records of St. Bartholomew's priory & St. Bartholomew the Great, West Smithfield
… and, as the result of a drinking bout, killed a man in a duel, was found guilty of manslaughter, but was merely …
Old and New London
… the editor of the 'London Magazine,' who was killed in a duel, that periodical passed into other hands, and became the …
The History and Proceedings of the House of Commons