Execution by Wheel Replaced with Banished Sentences at Petersburg
Reports from Petersbourg describe the 14th assembly of Senators Generality and Synod to judge prisoners. Count Osterman Munich and others faced beheading or banishment, with Osterman notables beheaded earlier replaced by a perpetual banishment after a brief execution on the scaffold. Widespread confiscations, exile routes, and noble family dispersals followed, with multiple orders to places in Siberia Livonia and Ukraine and potential matches for widowed spouses.
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Czarina
Petersbourg
Fan
d’Osterman
Munich
Golofkin
Mengden
Lowenwold
Carl
Gustave Biron
Bisimarc
Biron
Peter the First
Count Munich
Ukraine
Livonia
Poland
Lowenwolde
Lapokin
Archangel
M. Nepluef
Samara
Volga
d’Otterman
Prince Lewis
Vienna
Fel
Brunau
Straubing
Port News Deal and Portsmouth Shipping Movements
Deal reports wind northwesterly and ships sailing from St Helen's Road with East India and other convoys. His Majesty's ships Scipio Somerset Kingston Advice Nassau Marys Reign Hannah Duke of Cumberland William Edinbourg Blosfum Providence Drake remain in the Downs as of February 13.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Deal
Scipio
Somerset
Howes
East-India
Wind N
Kelly
Barbadoes
Hannah
Turner
Jamaica
Duke of Cumberland
Harding
William
Laws
Brazil
Edinbourg
Campbell
Blosfum
Barthell
Gibraltar
Providence
Doubt
Ile of May
Drake
Downs
London Epigram and Official Appointments Report
London news notes the death near, and royal appoints Gwyn Vaughan and David Papillon as Commissioners of Customs and Excise. Also reports resignations at the Excise Office, ship movements from Deptford and Hull, a death at Ax Yard, and appointments including a high sheriff naming Richard Jones as head keeper of the New Gaol.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gwyn Vaughan
Customs
Edward Riggs
Deceasd
David Papillon
Excise
Thomas Robinson, Bart
Barbadoes
Excise Office
Pitt
Mann
Deptford
Hull
Nore
Ax Yard
Westminter
William Beaver
Earl of Halifax
Exchequer
Lord Walpole
John Turner
Duke of Ancaster
Garthorp
County of
Lancaster
Diocese of Lincoln
Stretton
Fire and trade notices from a 1741 London gazette fragment
William Ford is committed to the New Gaol in Southwark for setting fire to his house and damaging nearby properties in Bermondsey. Imports include silk, brandy, oil from Dunkirk, and Maryland commodities. exports include wheat and biscuits to Gibraltar. Royal appointments and bankruptcies listed alongside theatre notices from Drury Lane Covent Garden and Goodman's Fields.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Ford
Southwark
John Nicholas
Howes
King’s Mill
Bermondsey
Streights
Dunkirk
Maryland
Gibraltar
John Walker
City of York
Leatherfeller
Richard Croft
St. Paul
Covent Garden
Middlesex
High Water at London Bridge After 6 P.M.
Water reached the London Bridge area twelve minutes after six in the afternoon. Authorities warned residents to avoid the riverside path as flooding rose along the Thames. Local officials surveyed backup routes and prepared sandbag barriers for nearby homes and businesses.
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London Bridge
Fragmented Historical Bond Prices And Rates
A list of old financial instruments and rates including South Sea Stock and Annuities with various quotations such as Bank Circulation India Three Per Cent and Exchequer Orders. The fragment preserves a snapshot of market figures, spread across bonds, shares, and annuities with unit prices and percentages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Sea
Bank
India
Royal Exchange Assurance
London
Eror
Ditto
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France
Kevenhuller
Passau
Genoa
Port Spezia
Cape Corfe
Porto Spezia
Cape Dell Mell
Dresden
Paris
Hungary
Bavaria
Caro
Cesar
London Gazette
Wirehall
George Earl of
Cardigan
Warrens
Trent
Peregrine Duke
Ancaster and
Kestevan
Deceas
Samuel Sandys
Robert Earl of
Orford
Fames
William Earl of
Harrington
John Lord Carteret
St. James’s
William Earl of Harrington
Charles Harbury Williams
Hereford
Westminster
Fountain Tavern
Strand
Society
St. Alban’s Street
Fair-Mall
E. N.B
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