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Vol. I.
Deaths of Eminent Persons, JANUARY, 1731.
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Sir Peter Verdoen, Kt. late Lord Mayor of Dublin.

Casper White, Alderman of the same City, and Dutch Merchant.

2. Capt. John Turner, at his Seat at Tilford, near Farnham, formerly a Wholesale Mercer in Bucklersbury.

3. Mr. Morris, Coach-maker to his R. Highness the Prince of Wales.

Mr. Oliver Savigny, Cutler to his Majesty.

Dr. Morton, of the College of Physicians.

Mr. Dobbins, Lithotomist and Senior Surgeon of St. Bartholomew's Hospital.

Mr. Boheme of Lincolns-Inn-Fields Play-house.

7. Major Garth, of the fourth Troop of Foot Guards.

Lord Visc. Falkland, in France, buried at the Church of St. Sulpice in Paris, and succeeded in Honour and Title by his eldest Son Lucius Charles Cary, now first Viscount of North-Britain.

8. Mr. William Taverner, Proctor, at his House in Doctor's Commons. He was Son to Mr Jer. Taverner, Face-painter, remarkably honest in his Business, and Author of the 5 following Plays, viz. The faithful Bride of Canada; The Maid the Mistress; The Female Advocates, or, the Fanatick Stock-jobbers; The Artful Husband; The Artful Wife.

9. Robert Jones, of Grays-Inn, Esq;

11. Sir Thomas Jones, at his House in Boswel-Court, Treasurer and Secretary of the most Honourable Society of the Ancient Britons; a Justice of the Peace and Register of Memorials relating to Estates for the County of Middlesex.

The Lady of the Hon. Brigadier Hopkeys, at Chelsea.

——Sewel, Esq; at Richmond, first Clerk in the Six Clerks Office.

Mr Thomas Monins, a Wine-Cooper at Dover. Upon the Death of Sir Edward Monins of Waldershire in Kent, Bart. the Title descended to the deceased, but he would not take it upon him, however his eldest Son, 'tis said, will.

Mr William Wherwood, Alphabet-keeper, to the Foreign Post-Office.

12. Robert Bristow, aged 105, at Stamford, Lincolnshire, [He had lost his Hearing, but had his Sight and other Senses to the last.]

Philip Markham, Esq; at Claxbury in Lincolnshire.

James Earl of Airley, a young Nobleman, lately marry'd to a Daughter of the Lord Dun, in Scotland.

14. Mr Hughes, Wine Merchant, and one of the Common-Council-Men of Dowgate Ward.

Thomas Ereskine, Esq; Brother to the Earl of Buchan, (at Edinburgh.)

16. Edward Fellows, Esq; formerly Master in Chancery, and Brother to the late Sir John Fellows, Brt.

17. Nathaniel Halbed, Esq; a Pattern-drawer in Cornhill, and Exchange-broker.

Marmaduke Holton, of St Maws in Cornwal, Esq;

16. Walker Weldon, Esq; a Kentish Gentleman, at his House in Bloomsbury-square.

Mr John Wilkinson, a New-England Merchant.

20. Mrs Young, Wife of Thomas Young of Oxfordshire, Esq; in Child-bed, being first deliver'd of two Children. She was Daughter of Sir John D'Oyly, of Chislehampton, Bart.

The Hon. Stroud Foley, Esq; youngest Son to the Ld Foley, dy'd on the Road from Bath.

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