French surge against refusals sparks fires and alarms
In a Paris bulletin from the 4th of last month Major Francheschi leads four detachments to enforce Taille payments at Amptignani, burning houses after a denial by deputies. The resulting fury triggers alarm bells and hill fires as villagers rally to resist. Marshal Spinola seeks calm via promises amid looming revolt.
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Etters
Bafta
Francheschi
Pérts
Amptignani
Ion
M. Francheschi
Namers
Fetiz
Rostino
Athout
M. Spinola
Marshal Broglio
Count Seckendorff
M. de Balincourt
Braunau
Tann
Prince de Conti
Eggenfeld
Landau
Inn
Broglio
Maillebois
Dirigelfing
Osterhoffen
Count de Saxe
Deckendorff
Marshal Kevenhuller
Ortenbourg
London
Biuffels
Fan
Marshal Belle-Isle
Prague
Port News Item Details Royal Navy Arrivals and Departures
Shipping news from Deal and Dover lists His Majesty's ships and tenders sailing for the West Indies Jamaica Madeira Leghorn and other ports with several vessels bound for Gibraltar Dublin Bristol and Liverpool. Arrivals include Philip Peter Worth from Virginia and ships from Oporto and Newfoundland.
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Deal
His Majesty
Lyme
Dover
Lynn
Fer
Leghorn
Batty
Liverpool
Arriv
Philip
Peter
Worth
Virginia
Richards
Falmouth
Walker
Swansey
Windsor
Fox
Freeman
India
Downs
Bya
Deal Castle
Henrietta
Hood
Gibraltar
Cleve
Rice
N. Dover
Hendley
Douglas
Barham
Damond
Oporto
Gravesend
Richard and Martha
Everton
Fom
Newfoundland
Royal Court Christmas Day Pageantry and Naval Action News
On Christmas Day a large attendance at court paid compliments to the king with Knights of various orders, a chapel sermon by Rev Hayter, and the king receiving a gold wedge at the altar. Reports also note a Sussex marriage, deaths in Dorset and London, a farmer’s sudden death, a grocer’s fatal chaise accident, and Captain Rogers capturing a Spanish privateer Santa Rita after a ship chase near Scilly. The Royal Regiment appointments of Mordaunt and Cholmondeley are announced, plus bankruptcy notices and theatre listings.
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Chapel-Royal
Hayter
Edmund Gibson
London
Carlton
Duke of Devonshire
Ireland
Grave
Serjeants-Inn
Fleet-street
Sussex
Rogers
Hanover-Square
Salisbury
Wring
Dorsetshire
Henry Bower
Arundel-street
Strand
Windor
Capt
Frankland
Carolina
Charlesnes
London Gazette
Whitehall
Scilly
Bridgewater
Capti Rogers
Plymouth
Santa la Rita
el Neptuno
Bilboa
John
Mordaunt
S Royal Regiment
Foot of Ireland
John Armstrong
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France
Paris A-la-main
William Hull
St. Mary At Hill
Packer
Robert Robinson
Wigan
County ‘Palatine of Lancaster
Chapman
Michael Roshar
St. Mary le Strand
Theatre Royal
London Bridge
General Post-Office
Fhereas
Werminger
St. Famies’s
Renvard
Geo. Shelvocke
Thomas Mavox
Efa
His Majesty’s Historiographer
C. Davis
Gray?s Inn
Holborn
A. Millar
Katherine Street
England
N.B
Champion
T. Cooper
Globe
Paternofter Row
Philalethes
Felix
Pater-noster-Row
Westminster
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