Frontiers and Power Shifts Stir Early Persian War Crisis
News from Constantinople and Peterstourg reports turmoil as Ali Ogh is replaced by Aga of the Jenitenes for appeasing Janissaries. Shah Nadir advances on Kirkut toward Aleppo while Egypt rebels and 10,000 Arabs revolt at Falfura. European courts discuss Prussia, Sweden, and Danish marriages as naval forces reposition.
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Persia
Ali Ogh
Haffan Bahan
Jenitenes
Uth Sar
Ali Ogl
Meselino
Aleppo
Hahd
Shah Nadir
Bathan
Babylon
Kirkut
Moul
Diarbekir
Europe
Rhodes
Sophi
Egypt
Falfura
Porte
Asaph
Peterstourg
Silesia
Prussia
Hungary
de Botta
Holstein
Eimpress
Prince Royal
Sweden
Stockholm
Afarquess de Danmarie
Copenhagen
Count Teflin
Admiralty
Acrid
Duke de Montemar
Murcia
Sarragotta
Savoy
Marquess de la Mina
S de la Errenada
Naval and trade dispatches from Gibraltar to Cadiz
December 10 reports tensions with Gibraltar cruising limits and a provision exchange. Parma and Modeneze magazines grow for Lobkowitz Army, armed barks arrive from Istria to block Spanish provisioning. Seamen sail to Toulon to join the King’s ships. Cadiz notes French ships laden for Buenos Aires and the South Seas. Hague: Fenelon to Paris, Ville credentials. tidesmen drowned near Botolph’s Wharf. London: Old Bailey prisoners convicted. South Sea stocks and annuities quoted. various financials and Exchequer rates.
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Gibraltar
Ceuta
Genoa
Parma
Modeneze
Prince Lobkowitz
Istria
Seabine
Elon
Toulon
Cadiz
Buenos Ayres
South Seas
France
Hague
Marquess de Fenelon
Paris
de ‘la Ville
Assembly of the States General
PORT NEWS DEALS ARRIVALS AT HAMBURG AND GLASGOW
Port News reports December 8 arrivals including the Ofwe 0 from Hamburg en route to Madeira aboard and under royal ships Alderney Gibraltar Furnace and others. George Behn from Hamburg Su sannah from Hamburg Berwick from Maryland Maynard from Virginia ashore at Gram Pir. Maryland reports Dragon from Antigua Glasgow notes Christian from Virginia Lifton lists Joanna from Newfoundland.
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Port News
Deal
Arriv
Hambourg
Ofwe
Waddell
Madeira
His Majesty
Alderney
Gibraltar
Furnace
Batavia
Wand
W. Gravesend
George
Behn
Meyer Fredrickson
Susannah
Vancreken
Berwick
Mauger
Maryland
The
Dragon
Bradford
Antigua
Glasgow
Christian
Pelligran
Virginia
Lifton
Joanna
Waldron
Newfoundland
Debates on Hanoverian Forces Move Prince of Wales to House of Lords
London reports detail the Prince of Wales attending Debates on Hanoverian Forces at the House of Lords. Lord Gower resigns as Lord Privy Seal and Lord Cobham likewise resigns his regiment. News notes a Thetford Borough MP election with no opposition and a Southwark petition for election remedy. Also reported are a death in Ostend of Roger Nowell Ely, prize draws, ship prize money at the Nore, and the St Agnes captured ship shares ordered paid.
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London
Prince of Wales
House of Peers
Lord Gower
Lord Cobham
Lester
Charles Fitzroy
Thomas ‘Archer
Thetford
Southwark
Fountain Tavern
House of Commons
Ostend
Roger Nowell
Ely
Pottefs
Rcoo
Geary
Nore
St. Agnetta
Ipswich
Embroke
Oxtrd
Kennington
Barbary
Court of Admiralty
Pay Office Notice of Pensia and Bounty Payments 1743
Pay Office in Broad Street issues schedule for pensions and bounty payments to Navy widows and dependents. Captains mates merchants boatmen gunners and other widows to collect on specific dates, with Sundays excluded. Notices require claimants or their attorneys to present certificates from parish churchwardens or ministers confirming nobility.
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Groad-Street
Broad-street
Dan
London
Paris
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Constantinople
Ysterday
Holland
Botolph’s
Bridge Water-Works
Peter Rogers
William Clark
Stockley
Eleanor Garing
Pridge
Royal Exchange Alloraice
India Ponds
Exchequer
Prem
Grvce
Chancery Lane
Scar Inn
Erses
Homas Hasmer
Sa Akespear
Oxford
AL Cooper
Gioveux Waternofter Row
C. F
Comical Club
Covent- Garden
Pontaneous Fey
J. Robinton
Galen Lion
Ludgate Street
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