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Fractured Petition and Royal Court News Across Ports
Reading the letter shows inhabitants near Port-Royal opposing Rutledge backed petitions while urging protection for land surveys by Rothmahler and Cooper. The issue fodders into broader updates: Cardinal Corcia excommunication and papal diplomacy, Neapolitan viceroy rumors, troop movements toward Germany, and the Prince of Wales entertainments at Pall Mall with courtly installations and county politics at Epsom. local crimes, marriages, and deaths anchor a bustling civic page.
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Port-Royal
Job Rothmahler
Thomas Cooper
Rutledge
Job
Huckfter
Rothmahler
Prince of Wales
Pall-Mall
Hampton Court
Duke of Devonshire
Lord’ Wilmington
Charles Wager
Admiralty
Prince of Orange
Order of the Garter
Winder
Dorset
Hampton-Court
Holyhead
Kingdom of Ireland
Epsom
Surrey
Newland
Croydon
Mr. Waters
Parson Ramsay
Sutton
Wotton
Fleetstreet
Scawen
Waters
Guildhall
Smithfield
Eig
Martha Gregory
Aldersgateeftreet
Gravesend
John Blowing Eig
India