Evidence of Barbary Slavery and Corsair Captures
News notes report Dutch vessel Masters enslaved by Algerine corsairs off Barbary shores while crew and passengers escaped. The Marquis de Suza arrived with 14 in Lucca but displeased with Spanish leaders. Pragmatick Sanction printing suppressed. Imperial troops from Corsica join regiments.
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Oran
Algiers
Barbary
Rotterdam
Lisbon
Marquis de Suza
Marquis de Santal
Lucca
Tuscany
Milan
Fulgt. N.S
Corsica
Verses on Rome and a London civic scene clash in verse and news
A fragment from a period column lavishes mock praise on a Roman Catholic lady and a churchman’s infallibility while shifting to notices from Birmingham and Warwickshire. It reports Sir Henry Gough’s reception by 500 merchants, the selection of a Sheriff in Middlesex, dignitaries touring the Royal Exchange, and Sir Robert Walpole’s high stewardship ceremony with city honors and celebratory rites.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Birmingham
Warwickshire
Erland
Henry Gough
Guildhall
Daniel Lambert Esq
Middlesex
Michael Hillersdon
Count de Schulemburg
Germany
Royal Exchange
Mercers
Tanner
Samuel Walter
Jefferies
Morining
Botolph Lane
Stephen Holford
Bell-Alley
Coleman-street
Benjamin Birch
Vernon
John
Great Yarmouth
Robert Walpole
Mayor
Prince of Wales
Prince of Orange
Healish
Ireland Age of Breeches and Bravery Rumors From Dublin July 7
Dublin July 7. Breach of the Boyne observed with Protestant Society entertainment and gun firing till ten at night. Obits include Alderman John Page aged 80, thrice Lord Mayor, interred with solemnity. Miller’s man at Island Bridge drowned. Thornton Esq of Finglas killed by fall from horse. Nine and forty died last week. coiners seized in Fishamble Street. Stocks and bonds figures and bank notices appended.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dublin
Island Bridge
Thornton Esq
Finglas
Tent Worth, Esq
England
Fishamble-street
Kelly
Printed Handkerchief with Pocket-Book Reward Notice
A printed linen handkerchief dropped at nine in the morning contained a pocket-book with notes and two small bundles of notes. The reward for delivering the book and notes to Mr. Prarez at the Baptist's Head in Clerkenwell is a guinea, with no questions asked, as notes are said to be useless except to the owner.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bishop's Court
Aylesbury
Clerkenwell
Prarez
Baptist's
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Church of England
Bellarmine
Rome
Ireland
Terne
Bayie
Xanthus
South Sea
South Sea-Ann
Bank Tso
India
Royal Assurance
London Assurance
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