Turkish Empire fears Kouli Khan attack from Babylon
Mails from Holland and Constantinople report Kouli Khan designs to strike the Persian frontiers and threaten the Ottoman Empire. Ali Bathan, Serafker of Romelia, is ordered to reinforce Erzerum and Babylon, while customs funds support war effort. The Porte deposes the Greek Patriarch amid graft probes as Greeks offer bribes to avert trouble. Naples and Messina report plague absence, but some villages still suffer mortality. Madrid dispatches hint at England Spain accommodation talks. Bologna notes Modena subjects marching to join Spanish army. Ingolstadt garrison resists, and French and German forces move near Egra and Roedelheim as the British king camps at Roedelheim.
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Persia
Thomas Kouli-Kan
Babylon
Porte
Ali Bathan
Serafker
Romelia
Fame
Krotika
Diarbekir
Erzerum
Trebifunde
Naples
Calabria
Messina
Palermo
Sicily
Madrid
England
Spain
Chamberly
Don Philip
Grenovle
Piedmont
Malta
Bologna
Graffignana
Modena
Nuremberg
Ingolstadt
Bernelau
Upper Palatinate
Egra
Collowrath
Marquess de Herouville
Manchim
Prince Charles of Lorrain
Rhine
Baden
Brisgau
Philipsbourg
Strausingen
Frascfort
Roedelheim
Great Britain
Biberch
Mentz
Tiine
Ireland News: stabbings and marriages in Cork and Limerick
Limerick reports a gunmaker John Forberry stabbed on the town walls by a sword and dying next morning after arrest. In Cork, Matthew Deane Esq, eldest son of Sir Matthew Deane, wed Miss Salusbury Davie of Chester. A couple quarrelled at supper. a man killed by his wife and she fled to a surgeon, but he died.
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Limerick
John Forberry
Waich
Worth
O Gaal
Lublin
Matthew Deane
Faruamen
Cork
Salusbury Davie
Manley-vall
Chester
Murray
Eleven Ferrons Sentenced in Exeter Heat Case
From Exeter we hear that eleven Ferrons received sentences of heat there. two are to be executed, a boy for setting a Houston fire and the Reverend Mr Vines who faced murder and rape trials. He was acquitted of murder but found guilty of rape and sentenced to die.
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Bristol
Exeter
Houston
Vines
Port News From Dover and Gravesend Ships Arriving
Dover reports the Batchelor White from Carolina bound for Amsterdam and the Elizabeth and Eleanor Herren headed to Falmouth. The Nassau Wilson leaves for Gurney and remains with the King's Ships. Westmorland Shank and Stubington Mauger arrive from Leghorn while Gravesend notes Peter Anne Olson and Laurence Buckman from Norway and Riga respectively with Mary Hammond from Narva and others from Ostend Rotterdam and East India.
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Port News
Dover
Batchelor
White
Carolina
Amsterdam
Elizabeth
Eleanor
Herren
Falmouth
Deal
Nassau
Wilson
Gurney
King
Arriv
Westmorland
Shank
Stubington
Mauger
Leghorn
Heroic clash foretold in mythic British war drama
A fragmentary verse scene depicts G and Gallia's Sons clashing in a dreadful combat as heavenly signs arise. Jupiter descends at Britain's king’s request to aid a heroic, uncertain war, then the martial god sets course toward Hiparia's golden shores.
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Gallia
Britain
Hiparia
Return to arms and crime gleams in London notice board
A jagged 18th century summary blends war verse with court and crime items. Admiralty appoints Caprty Collins to command Gram pus Sloop, grocer Thomas Lane noted as Grocers Company head, and a tobacconist Stone dies after a sudden illness. Attacks, ferrons, and sentences at St Edrmond's bury affizes are recorded alongside a brutal self-harm incident by Mr Smith of Gray's Inn. A large lace seizure, a dragon of fights in Tottenham Court Fair, and a cricket match at Moorfields are chronicled. Ships from Antigua and Jamaica reach Spithead and Bristol, with privateering near the Windward Passage. High water at London Bridge noted.
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Spain
Britain
Admiralty
Caprty Collins
Grampus
Thomas Lane
St. John’s Street
Grocers Company
Stone
East Smuthfield
James Deeks
Alwright
Lambeth Marsh
Linnen
Bridewell-Boys
Tottenham Court Fair
Customs
Wapping
Duke of Bedford
Woburn Club
Artillery Ground
Moorfields
His Majesty
Suffolk
Burford
Eltham
Knowles
Spithead
Antigua
Lucca
Smith
Bristol
Jamaica
England
Windward
George
Tidball
Cork
St. Domingo
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Yeterday
Holland
Constantinople
Hungary
House of Bavaria
House of Bourbon
M. Warner
Ireland
Country News
London
C. B
London Bridge
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