Decree on Freight Declarations for Vessels to Brasil
Lisbon reports King grants to the Merchants Office a decree requiring captains to declare freight for tonnage bound for Brasil and other settlements. Forfeiture of 1000 Cruzados enforces the rule, to fund captive redemption. Other items note East Indies tranquility, Havana prizes, and royal progresses in Europe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lisbon
Brasil
East Indies
Goa
Francis Joseph de S. Payo
Cadiz
Fune
Havana
Campechy
Lima
Panama
Munden
Hesse
Great Britain
Paris
Val
Spain
Port St. Mary
Cape
Norris
Bannieres
Vienna
Peavis
Regiment of Dragoons
Armenonville
Bonnelles
Sqth
Louvre
Spor
Evreux
Oratory Announces Dutch Manuscript Dissertation
By the Aeronian Envoy's command an oratory at the corner of Lincoln's Inn Fields near Clare Market will host a delivered difflertation on a vellum Dutch manuscript linked to Henry VIII. The work describes seven souls' transmigrations, a supplement to Ovid, and includes portraits and events. Also advertised are several orations and topics to be published at the Oratory tomorrow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oratory
Lincoln’s-Inn-Fields
Clare-market
Henry VIII
Blenheim
Marlborough
Oxfordshire
L’univers Travesti
N. B. Ju@t
A&ion
Reddell Appointed Receiver General of Bedford Taxes
Henry Reddell is named Receiver General of the Taxes for Bedford County in place of his resigning father Ambrose Reddell. The Dutchess of Kendall hires the late Mr Mead’s house at Ieworth Middlesex on a lease. Races at Preston feature Smiling Nancy winning the twenty guinea plate. Debtors in Guildhall sessions largely discharged under the late Act. A woman hangs herself in Chick Lane and two footpads attack a hackney coach near St. Martin's Lane.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Henry Reddell
Bedford
Ambrose Reddell
Kendall
John Mead
Ieworth
Middlesex
Eyres
St. Clement’s Church
Preston
Lancashire
Mr. Makin
Smiling Nancy
Mr. Trower
Mr. Thornton
Nicholina
Mr. Egerton
Spot
Mr. Bowers
Brisk
Mr. Barry
Mr. Stirrup
Mary Medcalf
Chick-Lane
Kerney
Paul Kerney
Newgate
Hemings Row
St. Martin’s Lane
Death of Lady Jean Hay Dowager Countess of March
Edinburgh reports the death of the Right Hon Lady Jean Hay Dowager Countess of March in Canongate aged 64. Her funeral will be held at the Kirk of Peebles. The account notes her virtuous widowhood and her charitable example to her children including William Earl of March and several daughters and sons. Also: a Glasgow murder case of Mary Purcel with a dramatic public discovery is described, along with financial market items and a note about printers in Fenchurch Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edinburgh
Duke of Argyll
Abbey of Holyrood House
Wade
New Church
Kinlock
Latt
Canongate
Jean Hay
March
Marais
Tweedale
William
Earl of March
John, Baron of Broughton
Shire of
James of
Stow
Isabel
Marry
Jean
Peebles
Neil MacVicar
Wedtkirk
Hart
Glasgow
Mary Purcel
William Purcel
Greenock
Childa
Surgeons-Hall
Muir
Rutherglen
South Sea
Bank
India
Royal Exchange Assurance
London Afsurance
York
Welch
Also Mentioned on This Page
France
Holland
Falmouth
Friends
Nevis
Curr
Shadwell
Bristol
South Carolina
Dorothy
Dublin
Sherrant
Rotterdam
Goodman
Gravesend
de Blessing
Chapman
Friends Society
Hammond
Salvator
Thompson
Mary
Elizabeth
Wright
Norway
Anne
Law
Exchange
Marshal
Coningsburg
Deal
Leo
King
Caroline
Pearcy
Carolina
Ostend
Margate Road
Wind
S.S. W
Witmer
Thomas Witmer
Paul’s Court
Fenchurch-street
South-gate
Gratoger
Shee-lan
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!