Foreign News and Port Updates From 18th Century Letters
Reports from Holland Naples and Genoa discuss Jewish settlement rights fifty year term and tariff limits on Dutch woollen imports. British and Spanish military moves along Minorca Catalonia and Italian frontiers. arming in Stockholm and Albanian settlement requests. vessels from Smyrna and Persia signal Turkic upheaval amid Mogul frontier tensions. Port notes detail ships sailing to Gibraltar and New York, with several arrivals and cargo movements through Deal Gravesend and surrounding harbors.
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Holland
House of Bourbon
Genoa
Mahon
Haddock
Gibraltar
Catalonia
Minorca
Hland
Barcelona
Stockhollm
Finland
Constantinople
Viduna
Gylani
Italy
Austrian Netherlands
Sclavonia
Ors Dess
Guadagni
Heilfreich
Porte
Venice
Smyrna
Persia
Schach Nadir
Candahar
Hague
St. Sebastian
Don Philip
Meyer- Veldtmuss
Amssterdam
Bilboa
Deal
London
Pipon
Arriv
Albany
Bryant
New York
Eltham
Macnamar
Sarah
Margaret
Scrivener
Oporto
Goodwin-Sands
Welton
Knowler
Windn
Gravesend
Fasnley
Ducker
Ansley
Allen
Hooper
Lisbon
Booth
Douglas
Pegasus
Ramsey
Michael
Guernsey
Hanover Alliance
Oliver
St. Ubel
William
Graves
Carolina
Wilthire
Brown
Leghorn
Prosperity
Armstrong
Santa Cruz
Monmouth
Gerald
Maryland
Endeavour
Newton
Barbadoes
Frost and harvest woes and notable society news in Bristol
Reports from Bristol describe severe frost destroying pea and bean seed, forcing farmers to replow and resow. The article notes marriages in Cornwall and to Miss Carter, and other social updates alongside overseas intelligence from Rome Copenhagen and Hamburg. It records church and court appointments, ship movements, and local incidents, including deaths and a fire-ship expedition order, with notices of theatre and high water timing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Country News
Bristol
Hoblin, Esq
County of
Cornwall
Carter
Thomas Caster
Slade Baker
Miss Innis
Jeremiah Innis
Efyan
Financial quote survey of South Sea and British securities
A condensed price list shows South Sea Stock at 95 and related securities trading across multiple items. Included are South Sea Annuities, New South Sea Annuities, Bank stocks, Bank Circulation, Premium India, Three Percent Annuities, Million Bank, Royal Exchange Assurance, English Copper, India Bonds, Salt Tallies, Mine Adventure Shares, Seven Percent Emperor Loan, Five percent, and various Exchequer and government loan quotes with fractional shillings and pence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Sea
New South Sea
Bank
Prem
India
Royal Exchange Afsiance
London Ducoit
Ditto Mine Adventure
Emperors Loan
Notice to contractors for Elm timber sale at Bridge Yard
The Committee for letting the Bridge House Lands gives notice that in the Council Chamber of Guildhall London tomorrow the 5th instant at four in the afternoon proposals in writing sealed will be received from any person willing to contract to furnish and deliver into the Bridge Yard Southwark, seventy loads of long sound elm timber each load one and a half meetings and no piece under sixty feet and thirty loads of elm timber at one load meetings with none under forty feet. William Theed, Comptroller.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Benow
Suffolk
Christopher Boulton
Livingworth
Gresham College
Pofpon
Blackwall
Savoy
Westminester
Hoy
Joseph Munns
Newgate
Wesley
George Middleton
Weymouth
Waddam
Viana
Scilly
Sea-Horse
Cleland
St. Sebastians
Cadiz
Richard and
Elizabeth
Howell
Philadelphia
Lisbon
Guildhall
London
Fauh Perfon
Southwark
William Theed
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Turspar
Naples
Tee
Rome
N.S
Corradini
Cardinal Altieri
Cardinal Ruffo
de Tencin
Ottobini
Acquaviva
Corfini
Riviera
L Ghorn
Great Britain
Copenhagen
Petersbourg
Kamschatska
Russia
Lea
North Sea
Japan
Pezenas
Languedoc
Thioulouze
Narborne
Hambourg
Sieur Josias van Asperen
Berlin
Leucze
Elbe
Lord Middleton Arriv
France
Westmorland
Admiralty
Josiah Butcher
Sandwich
Kent
Lords Commissioners
Red-Cross Street
Fawkes
Dr. Williams
St. John’s College
University of Cambridge
Starston
Norfolk
Theatre Royal
Drury-Lane
the Miller of Mansfeld
Covent Garden
Orpheus and
Eurydice
London Bridge