Great Chancellor orders for palace apartments during conferences
Dispatches describe regiments and officers moving to Saxony and Vienna, with tall regiments raised in the kingdom, Cossacks reported near Caminieck, horses being bought in Vienna for imperial horse and dragoons, and various royal court activities at Versailles. Reports note Christmas celebrations, recoveries, a notable hanging, financial changes, and movements of Hanover and Lombardy forces.
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Poninski
Saxony
Aley
Jarokow
Zamofch
Wiesbach
Vienna
Russia
Caminieck
Hambourg
Fan
Berlin
Prussia
Potsdam
Count Seckendorff
Poland
Leipsick
Coningsberg
Prince Galiczia
Rusia
Paris
M. Valincour
M. Pelletier Des
Forts
M. d’Argenvilliers
Versailles
Vincent de Paul
Fathers of the Mission
la Muerte
Mademoiselle de Beaujolais
d’Arpajou
Chevalier d’Asprement
French Guards
Count de Chabanes
St. Martin’s
Maubert
M. Paris
Last Night Armed Mail from Holland to Moscow Planned Trade
A fragmentary 18th century note says merchants from Holland wrote from Petersbourg that several merchants planned to move to Moscow to pursue commerce with Persia. Troops in the region were ordered to be ready to march at first warning, though the occasion was unclear.
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Petersbourg
Moscow
Persia
Occa
Royal Seals to appoint officers and college warden change
London reports a commission to seal appointments naming the Prince of Wales to nominate officials including domestic servants. Rev Dr Dobson of Winchester College dies of fever and will be replaced by Rev Dr Bigg of New College Oxford. Griffith Lloyd of Boskadewin is made Customer and Deputy Collector at Neath port. Capt Lieutenant Bagnall commands a company in the 1st Foot Guards, succeeding Major General Wheeller. Capt Herbert, son of the Earl of Pembroke, becomes Captain Lieutenant to the regiment.
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London
Prince of Wales
Fhursday
Dobson
Winchester College
Bigg
New College
Oxford
Grifith Lloyd
Boskadewin
Glamorganshire
Neath
Wilkins
Bagnall
1St Regiment of Foot Guards
Wheeller
Herbert
Earl of Pembroke
Funeral of Thomas Preston Alderman of Bridge Ward
Last Night Upholders Hall bore the corpse of Thomas Preston Esq late Alderman of Bridge Ward to St Magnus the Martyr vault for burial. Aldermen Sir Richard Brocas Lord Mayor Francis Child Sir Edward Bellamy Rev Robert Alsop John Barnard and Sir Tho Lombe attended. his life praised for public service prudence charity and temperance.
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Upholders Hall
Leadenhall-street
Thomas Preston
Bridge
St. Magnus the Martyr
Richard Brocas
Francis Child
Edward Bellamy
Robert Alsop
John Barnard
Tho. Lombe
Hungerford Market
Green
St. Martin’s
Harrow
Holbourn
Plaistow
Essex
Chelmsford
Katherine Pember
Newgate
Justice Newson
William Bayly
Chick-lane
Gerard Payne
St. Katherine’s
Stepney Fields
Denne
Rochester
Societies For Reformation of
Bow Church
Cheapside
South ‘Sea
Prem
India
Royal Exchange Afsurance
London Assurance
York Buildings
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Warsaw
Hanover
Bulau
Brunswick
Saxe-Gotha
Lombardy
Antwerp
Falmouth
Cadogan
Anna Maria
Streights
W. Dartmouth
Martha of
Guernsey
Samuel Rowland
Bilboa
Plymouth
Charity of
Albanr
Anne and
Mary of
Portland
Spithead
Deal
Ramsgate Road
Rye Galley
Holland
Mexico
Oratory
Lincoln’s-Inn-Fields
Clare-market
Quixote
Sancho
Barata-N-Ria
Don
Dulcinea
Florence
Ellen
Parliament of Bees
Caleb
Fog
N. B
Oldman’s
Charing - Cross
David Deheerm
Deceas
Deheem
Ca Alocurs
Miller
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