Paris and Hague Updates on European War Preparations
The piece reports urgent debates in the Netherlands and England over impending mobilizations. Holland pledges 20 ships, 20,000 troops will join the effort, and Swiss regiments are to be raised. A public passport crackdown and stiff penalties accompany a broad military buildup across the United Provinces. Paris notes Bavaria’s Elector crowned Bohemian king and a Neuperg relief attempt defeated by de Saxe and Saxons near Prague.
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England
United Provinces
Republick
London
Norns
Italy
Paris
Vidame de Vafie
Elector of
Bavaria
Bohemia
Count Neuperg
Neuperg
Prague
Count de Saxe
Herle
London Convocation appoints Lisle Prolector at Westminster Abbey
Report of the two Houses meeting in King Henry the Seventh Chapel London with Rev Dr Lisle Archdeacon of Canterbury chosen Prolector and an address to the King. Also notices of marriages deaths and assorted local commerce and legal matters from the week.
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Henry the 7Th
Westminster Abbey
Lisle
Canterbury
Magdalen College, Oxon
Nis
Everard
Forster
St. Mary Magdalen
Old Fith-stréet
Henry Unwin
King-sbreet
Hoales
Hnowler
Ruffel
Sussex
Wapping
Manning
Cranham Hall
County of
Essex
Wright
Nathan Wright
Herbert Twist
Cheshire
Knotsford
George Lymington
Moorgate
Mr. Delano
Heckfield
Hampshire
Anthony Start
Kert
Anne
Humphry Parsons
London
George Chafin
Dorset
Serjeant Husky
Lincoln’s Inn
Anthony
Humphry Sturt
Eff
Oxford 5
Dansheer Chafin
Thomas Inwen
Eig
King’s Bench
Backwell
Joseph Symon
New-Gaol
Southwark
Robert Austen
Portsmouth Common
William Luck
Mary Price
Newgate
Col. de Veil
Bucknall
Hambourg
Calais
Port News Arrivals and Ship Movements Reported
Deal December 9 ships Fame Harris to Falmouth arrives John and Isabella Warden from Barbadoes and Italian Gally Taylor from Leghorn last from Gibraltar remain Dover and Bridgwater. Dover December 9 Tyber Farwell from Oporto Squirrel from New York raft from Portsmouth Diamond Goatley from Leghorn arrives Naples Sally and Molly Lynch from Carolina for London put into Virginia.
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Deal
Harris
Falmouth
John and Isabella
Warden
Barbadoes
Gally
Taylor
Leghorn
Gibraltar
His
Dover
Bridgwater
Tyber
Farwell
Oporto
Squirrel
New York
Portsmouth
Goatley
Naples
Sally
Molly
Lynch
Carolina
London
Virginia
Jamaica Rum and Iron Exports Noted with Live Theatre Ads
A reported export list records 938 Caitbricks and 2650 pounds Indigo from Jamaica four tuns rum, plus Jamaica 147 ounces wrought plate and 82 hundredweight wrought iron for the West Indies, iron and brass for Ireland, and strong beer. A Scotch Holland warehouse opens Monday near Creed Lane Ludgate. Evening entertainments include Love’s Labour’s Won at Drury Lane and The Conscious Lovers at Covent Garden with The School-Boy. Harlequin at Goodman's Fields in a new opera. High Water at London Bridge noted at 2:30 PM.
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Kirk
Jamaica
West. Indies
Ireland
Ludgate-street
Creed-lane
Theatre Royal
Drury-Lane
Govent-Garden
Goodman’s Fields
Bre‘gar
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Yeperday
Arrin
France
Paris A-la-main
the Hague
Port News
London Bridge
South Sea
Roy
New South Sea
Bank
India
Excheneér
Bridewell
Bethlem
Henry Wentworth
Bethlen
Mfr
John Wheeler
Charles Wheeler
Bridewel
Deceas
Ford Hospitals
Marine Coffee
Birchin- Lane
Samuel Rosinson
Bow-Lane
de Linnen
Scotch Holland
Charing-Croft
Dalrymple
Westminster
Cooper
Globe
Pater-noster-Row
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