Imperial Talks and Local Notices in Early December Dispatches
Decisive reports from Vienna to Paris hint at imperial peace negotiations with the Porte. Princes offerings of troops surface as winter peace prospects loom. Amid plague news from Hungary, Whitish travels note abbey investitures, and court movements signal shifting alliances. Obituaries and public notices record estates, excise surveys, and ship pay arrangements.
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Constadt
Vienna
Paris
Prince de Lichtenstein
Porte
Hungary
Fulda
Francfort
Landgrave
Hesse-Darmstadt
Giefen
Tuscany
Florence
Port News Ships Arrive At English Ports In December
Liverpool reports Seaflower Ross and George and Frances Lancaster sailing from Gibraltar and Virginia. Plymouth notes Dove from Viana and Carew from Malaga. Deal lists several ships in Downs including Gilbert Antigua Lovely Betty Jamaica Endavour Dartmouth and Sarah Elizabeth from Antigua. Gravesend records Lady Elizabeth Wittow and Thomasin from Gibraltar and Antigua. Weymouth reports Coan from Potomack River Virginia. Pool notes Agnes and Mary from Corona.
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Liverpool
Axsiv
Seaflower
Ross
Gibraltar
George
Frances
Lancaster
Virginia
Plymouth
Dove
Travers
Viana
Carew
Cursis
Malaga
Deal
Downs
Gilbert
Pringle
Antigua
Betty
Spencer
Jamaica
Endeavour
Laud
Dartmouth
Sarah
Elizabeth
Hambleton
New Hampshire
Hill
New England
Pool
Agnes and Mary
Pottle
Corona
Edict restricts cattle movement amid epidemic fears in London
London reports an Edict forbidding convoys from infected areas to the city and designating safe supply sources for butchers. Parcels of cattle arriving at the outer market were sent back on suspicion of origin. Paris dispatches mention a Versailles council addressing Count de la Mark’s Madrid mission and progress toward the Vienna treaty. The note adds the birth of Princess Louisa and a Cambridge death of Mrs Martin, widow of Henry Martin.
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Tribunal of Health
Paris
Versailles
Count de la Mark
Madrid
Spain
Vienna
France
Louisa
Cambridge
Martin
Henry Martin
Weavers Demand Full Wages No Truck At Wiltshire
Gloucester December news notes widespread unrest among weavers in Wiltshire after Melksham alarms. Clo thiers in Trowbridge ordered a public notice for full wages and no truck. Financial quotes include South Sea stock and annuities with various rates and pounds.
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Gloucester
Melksham
Wilts
Trowbridge
Proposals Sought for Butchers Meat at Royal Hospital Greenwich
The Royal Hospital at Greenwich invites sealed proposals from individuals willing to supply butchers meat for one year. Proposals must be delivered to Salters Hall by Wednesday the 3th instant at eleven in the forenoon. Inquiries may be made to the hospital steward to learn the required nature and species and other particulars.
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Royal Hospital For
Greenwich
His Majesty
Royal Hospital II
Salters Hall
East India Company Transfer Books and Meetings Notice
The Court of Directors of the East India Company announces transfer books will be set up on Tuesday December 19 at two oclock in the afternoon A quarterly general court will be held at Leadenhall Street on Wednesday December 20 at eleven in the forenoon The transfer books will be opened on Tuesday January 16 next and Christmas dividend warrants will be ready January 26.
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Robert Simpson
Caius College
East Hempstead
Berks
William Neal
George Neal
County of Hants
New Belton Street
St. Giles’s
Daniel
Excise
Chatham
Sheerness
Portsmouth
Plymouth
Sumner
Britannia Indiaman
Bencoolen
Thomas Barfoot
King’s Arms
Leadenhall Street
James Gardiner
Henry Waldron
Dickenson
Foot Guards
A. Taylor
Somerset House
Virginia
Africa
East India
France
Spain
Fair-India House
United Company of Merchants of England
East-Indies
For Sale by the Candle at Marine Coffee-House Birchin-Lane
Auction notice listing goods including tea, coffee, cocoa and sugar at East India Company and Jamaica warehouses in Coal Harbour. Catalogues available at John’s Coffee-House and by broker Joan Barnes. Sale set for this day at four o'clock, next February 24, with viewing this day.
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Marine Coffee
Birchin-Lane
Royal Exchange
Jamaica Coffe
Harbour
N. B
Coalharbour
John’s
Swithin’s Alley
Joan Barnes
al Garraway
Exchange Alley
Samuel Torin
Public notice of a new volume of a historical dictionary
This item advertises the Second of the Eighth Volume of a General Dictionary Historical and Critical with a new translation of Bayle and many Lives. It lists publishers and places of sale in Britain and Ireland and notes forthcoming content including lives of Bishop Patrick Father Paul and Bishop Pearson.
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Levi
Ozanam
Owen
Archbishop Parker
Parker
Oxford
Father Parsons
Mr. Bayle
Thomas Birch
John Lockman
G. Strahan
J. Clarke
Carnhill
J. Jaya
Poulery
J. Wood
Paternoster Row
J. Shuckburgh
C. Corbet
G. Hawkins
Fleet-street
J. Wilcox
A. Millar
The
Paul
Pearson
This Day is publis'd Eleventh Edition of The Gentleman Instructed
A historic advertisement notes the eleventh edition of The Gentleman Instructed in the Condu t of a Virtuous and Happy Life. It lists publishers including Midwinter and Pemberton and includes addenda on atheism, immortality, and a companion work on Old Testament books by Dr Symon Patrick.
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D. Midwinter
A. Betterworth
C. Hitch
J. Pemberton
R. Ware
C. Rivington
A. Ward
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