News from Holland to Constantinople and Europe
The June dispatches report Swedish plenipotentiaries signing preliminaries with a Russian plan, contingent on Nyland restitution, then halting as conferences break down. Abo letters seek guidance while elections to a crown successor loom. Constantinople reports Kouli Khan's Turcomania advance, Turkish tax on Greek churches, and mutinous unrest. In Germany French and British movements, Archadenbourg HQs, and Donawerth bombardments update the theater.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Abo
Romanzow
Lubras
Swedis
Nyland
Stockholi
Rusha
Duke of Holstein
Lubeck
Constantinople
Thomas Kouli Kan
Turcomania
Cars
Bashaw
Porte
Eashaw
Sophia
Seraglio
Francfort
Great Britain
Archaffenbourg
Stair Cross
Issu
Littleton
Earl of Stair
Lerson
Duke de Noailles
Baberhausen
Worth
Aschaffenbourg
Main
Port News Arrivals and Departures From Dover and Chester
In port news dated June 20 vessels include last night failing the Dolphin Man of War and Granada Bomb with outward-bound Snips to the Westward. Remaining in sight are the Shrewsbury Man of War the Terror Bomb the Matilda Wild for Gibraltar and the Dutch Last Indiaman. The Lark of Whitehaven Fisher arrived for Riga. Hopewell Benton from Cork for Camphire. At Chester the Betty Gammon from Barbadoes. at Montferrat the New Boston Darby from Botton. at St Kitts the Unicorn Applebee the Penelope Lilwood and the Scroop Conway from London. At Bristol the Tantyne Read and the Greyhound Townsend from St Kitt's.
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Port News
Deal
Dolphin
Granada
Shrewsbury
Matilda
Wild
Gibraltar
Arriv
Lark
Whitehaven
Fisher
Riga
Dover
Chester
Betty
Gammon
Barbadoes
Montferrat
New Boston
Darby
Botton
St. Kitt’s
Unicorn
Applebee
Penelope
Lilwood
Scroop
Conway
London
Bristol
Tantyne
Read
Greyhound
Townsend
Southwark Election Scrutiny Delayed and Local Appointments
A Southwark MP scrutiny ends with the Bailiff deferring the Declaration to Thursday the 36th Inst. Essex Verderer John Conyers is chosen in Waltham Forest, replacing the deceased Carew Harvey. Roft Farm farmer marries widow Buck for a fortune, a man with four late spouses named Layden. A Laceman Parker dies in Aldersgate Ward after health decline. A cart accident near Avurie Wiltshire kills farmer Gale, worth £8000. Dispensation granted for William Pitman to hold Kenilworth Vicarage and Boxworth Rectory. East India Tea sale prices rise. a Southwark tea scare ends with a wasted unloading effort and tea-less wagon.
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London
Southwark
John Conyers
Copt Hall
Epping
Essex
Forest of Waltham
Carew Harvey
Mildmay
Deceas
Mr. Keadland
Roft-Farm
Saffron- Waldron
Ciles
Wimbuch
Aldersgate-Ward
Auvery
Wilts
Gale
William Pitman
Kenilworth
Westminster Resolve Faces Off Over Bridge Width
The piece outlines amplification of a dispute with Westminster as theOwners push for a decision on a six foot widening of Teg's Hole Bridge near Stratford due to recurring accidents. It also reports robberies and arrests, a staged coach robbery near Banbury, captures of Lansbury and associate, and shipping news from Port Mahon with prizes and plunder.
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Westminster
Stratford
Brozett
Jodie Rhogues
Joseph Cord
Justice Nichols
Southwark
Elias Smith
Croydon
Birmingham
Banbury
Oxfordshire
Rodbsery
Lansbury
Oxford
Pardoe
Jesus College
Chatham
Sheerness Dock
Port Mahon
Smith
Adea
Canaries
Cadiz
Larbacoes
Eagle
Fleetwood
Jamaica
Harvarna
Swift
Clark
Hollyhead
London
Samuel Johnson
Tavertock-street
St. Paul
Covent-Garden
Middlesex
George Sation the Younger
Falmouth
Cornwall
Chandler
Chapman
Appointment Rule For Sheriff Of London And Middlesex 1743
A Common-Council order from June 6 1743 in London Chamber of the Guildhall sets a forty hundred pound payment and twenty marks toward prison minister’s upkeep as a condition for Sheriff eligibility. The rule links to October 1703 act and December 1656 order. It states exemption from the Sheriff role unless one serves as Alderman.
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Willimott
Barnarrd
London
George the Second
Great Britain
Middlesex
Chamber of London
Wxide
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Holland
Fetersbourg
Aland
Ratisbon
Baronias
Prince Charles of Lorrain
Suraubingen
London Bridge
South Sea
Ircm
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