quires; and further, if any one of our children shall marry clandestinely, they, by so doing, shall lose all claim, or title, to our effects, goods, gear, or estate; and we intimate this to all concerned, that none may pretend ignorance.
A General BILL of all the Christenings and Burials in London, from Dec. 13, 1757, to Dec. 12, 1758.
| Christened | Buried | ||
| Males | 7347 | Males | 8932 |
| Females | 6862 | Females | 8644 |
| 14209 | 17576 | ||
Decreased in the Burials this Year 3737.
| Died under | 2 Years of Age | 5971 |
| Between | 2 and 5 | 1795 |
| 5 and 10 | 717 | |
| 10 and 20 | 556 | |
| 20 and 30 | 1362 | |
| 30 and 40 | 1589 | |
| 40 and 50 | 1606 | |
| 50 and 60 | 1368 | |
| 60 and 70 | 1208 | |
| 70 and 80 | 961 | |
| 80 and 90 | 370 | |
| 90 and 100 | 68 | |
| 102 | 2 | |
| 103 | 1 | |
| 104 | 1 | |
| 105 | 1 | |
| 106 | 1 | |
| 17576 |
The following remarkable incident was too long, and indeed of too extraordinary a nature, to be inserted among the common articles of the Chronicle; and as it does not naturally fall under any other head of the work, we have therefore chosen to place it here, at the end of the occurences of the year.
An account of some threatening letters sent to the Duke of Marlborough, and a prosecution which his Grace carried on against William Barnard, supposing him to have written them.
ON the 29th of November his Grace the Duke of Marlborough received the following letter from an unknown hand.
To his Grace the Duke of Marlborough, with care and speed.
XXVIII Nov. "My Lord,
As ceremony is an idle thing upon most occasions, more especially to persons in my state of mind, I shall proceed immediately to acquaint you with the motive and end of addressing this epistle to you, which is equally interesting to us both. You are to know, then, that my present situation in life is such, that I should prefer annihilation to a continuance in it. Desperate diseases require desperate remedies; and you are the man I have pitched upon, either to make me, or to unmake yourself. As I never had the honour to live among the Great, the tenour of my proposals will not be very courtly; but let that be an argument to enforce a belief of what I am now going to write. It has employed my invention for some time, to find out a method to destroy another, without exposing my own life: that I have accomplished, and defy the law. Now for the application of it. I am desperate, and must be provided for. You have it in your power, it is my business to make it your inclination to serve me; which you must determine to comply with, by procuring me a genteel support formy
