Montemar Hospital Plan Demanded and Granted by the Pope
Rome reports Duke de Montemar seeks leave to establish a hospital for sick in Ferrara. The Pope grants permission but requests the hospital be pitched at another Ferrareze location. Venice notes Turmoil and manpower in Terra Firma with forces near Verona and 8600 more to be raised. total about 120,000 with 18 warships and 30 gallies. Lestock restores four Tartans and keeps a bark seized from the Levant bound for the Spaniards. Berlin reports Anhalt Deffau units canton into Upper Silesia. Paris notes ships with 12 cannon aboard Gallies destined for Antibes. Briffels: Austrian Council considers four million florin subsidy. Petersburgh: Empress decrees severe punishment for foreign officers insult and orders protection for foreigners. guardsmen punished and foreigners warned.
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Ferrareze
Venice
Republick
Terra Firma
Verona
Dalmatia
Isles
Senate
Toulon
Fune
Lestock
Levant
Berlin
Breslau
Prince of Anhalt
Deffau
Upper Silesia
Paris
Madrid
Barcelona
Provence
Antibes
Briffels
Count de Harrach
Austrian Netherlands
Petersburgh
Empire
Regiment of Guards
Edinburgh Weather Teases Harvest Hope
In Edinburgh on June 24 the season offers the most agreeable warm showers of late. Encouraging signs for harvest appear as grain begins to rise. Fears over drought harming corn are now fully dispelled.
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Scotland
Edinburgh
Port News Summary of Arrivals in June
Port News from Lancaser and Dover records arrivals of ships from Jamaica Leghorn Barbadoes Lisbon Antigua and Dunkirk with several vessels named along with outward-bound orders and wartime as of June 29 1 Gravesend and Deal entries note multiple ships returning or remaining and a Ruby put back to Leghorn.
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Port News
Lancaser
Fune
Arriv
Industry
Millerton
Barbadoes
Rast
Dublin
Bristol
Fiene
Williamsbourg
Lambert
Bath
Curtis
Jamaica
Deal
His Majesty
Prince of Orange
Portmouth
Liverpool
Lisbon
Gashery
Mafra
Smith
Preston
Hallam
Boulter
Weales
Lifton
Carteret
Fame
Harris
Leghorn
Ruby
Saunders
Dover
Neptune
Boyd
Loyalty
Fowler
John
Thomas
Thomson
Antigua
James
Elizabeth
Butler
Nicholson
Nottingham
Jones
Gravesend
Dunkirk
Jemima
Claribar
Calas
Treasury appoints Robert Cubit surveyor of houses Norfolk
London reports the Treasury names Robert Cubit of Walsectionham Norfolk to be Surveyor of Houses in Norfolk, replacing the deceased Powney. Durham notes Lowther’s Marines recruit with high success as youths enlist in the service beyond expectation. Sir Robert Godscall’s corpse leaves for interment at Albury Surrey. his virtuous life and integrity praised by citizens who elected him to Parliament and the mayoralty. Also, Galton of St Thomas's Southwark dies at 25. William and Thomas Lander report a brigantine from Whitehaven retaken near Beachy by a South Carolina-bound ship homeward.
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London
Lords Commissioners of the Treasury
Robert Cubit
Walsingham
Norfolk
Powney
Deceas
Durham
Lowther
Robert Godscall
Albury
Surrey
Wellingborough
Northamptonshire
Galton
St. Thomas’s
Southwark
William
Thomas
Lander
Pool
Beachy
South Carolina
Whitehaven
Ship and Market Notices from 1742 London Ledger
Fragmented report notes six sails captured near Dunore by a Spanish shallop, a New York bound sloop founder at sea, and a New England vessel leaving the Bay of Honduras. Also details thefts, imports and exports of wine brandy calicoes rum and sugars, plus stock and bond prices and a quarterly trustees meeting notice for fire insurance losses in London.
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Dunore
Bristol
John
New York
William Snow
New England
Bay of Honduras
Margaret Webster
Southwark
John Copeland
John Melton
Oporto
Holland
Dunkirk
Se. Kit’s
Jamaica
Barbadoes
Oportoro
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Rome
Duke de Montemar
Ferrara
London Bridge
South Sea
New South Sea
Royal Exchange
Craig’s Court
Charing-Cross
Great Britain
East-India House
United Company of Merchants of England
East-Indies
Sadler’s-Wells
Sadler's-Wells
Islington
Five O”Lock
Mademoiselle Kerman
Bodin
Mont. Dominique
Kerman
Williams
Mr. Heemskirke
Brett
Mons. Dumont
Mons. Baudouin
Davenpost
Ofbeldiston
Rayner
Bullock
Lafont
Philips
Miss Story
Matter Matthews
Miss Wright
Hendrick Kerman
N. B. Mont. Dominique
Somerset
Charlton
Greenwich
Kent
Greenwich Park Gate
Edward Saunders
Thomas Hervey
Thomas Hanmer
Aervey
J. H
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