Declaration to East-India Stock Directors Denounces Rumors
A claimant defends his integrity before the East India Company directors, denying ties to Swedish or foreign trade to India and refuting anonymous letters in the Daily Advertiser and Daily Post. He asserts loyalty, offers to unmask authors, and warns against suspicions tied to a forty thousand pound bond and potential legal consequences. March 1737.
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Daily Advertiser
Daily Post
India
Freel
Ostend
East-Indies
English East India Company
Empress Enjoins Education From Ages Eight to Twenty
Mails from France and Holland report an imperial edict urging lads eight to twelve to learn writing arithmetick and geometry. from sixteen to twenty to study fortification and history, after which they may enter Imperial Service. Vienna March 20 report also notes Seckendorff may shortly become Veldt Marshal General of Hungary. Paris April 3 updates Don Philip’s birth date and his appointment as High Admiral General of Spain with courtly honors.
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Vienna
Count Seckendorff
Hungary
Paris
Madrid
Roth
Don Philip
Jast
Spain
Port News Departures and Arrivals Report
Port News lists outward-bound ships sailing this forenoon including the Bristol bound Lilly Dove Peggy Novel Mary Kerfoot to Oporto and Providence to Dublin. arrivals include Rachel Perkins from Malaga Catherine Water from Carolina and vessels from Rostick Norway and Oporto with names Nutty details.
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Deal
Lion
Masters
Bristol
Lilly
Dove
Chester
Peggy
Mary
Kerfoot
Oporto
Nathanael
Wilson
Maryland
Providence
Stewart
Dublin
Rachel
Perkins
Malaga
Catherine
Water
Carolina
Gravesend
Arriv
Akerman
Norway
Anne
Dorothy
Otter
Rostick
Salivator
Dolington
Sun
Lawson
Peterson
Nixon
Turku Frontiers and Cordial Dispatches From Europe Fronts
London reports from Warsaw dated March 16 describe Turku frontier moves by Seraskier Bathaw of Budziack leading a cavalry corps toward Bender and clashes as Tartars push into Ukraine repulsed by Russian troops on the Dnieper. Haidamakee Cossacks submit and rally with the Kiev palatine. Notes from Madrid mention a stolen French ambassador's box, Genoa’s Corsican watch, and Ornani seizing 4–500 men to pressure Genoese republic. Royals shift offices in Ireland, Northumberland ill, Pakenham funeral, priests appointed, executions planned, and several drownings and robberies. Shipping and coin movements noted, with theatrical bills in London.
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Warsaw
Turku
Bathaw
Budziack
Bender
Niefter
Poland
Ukrain
Dnieper
Borifshenes
Oczakow
Palatin de Kiew
Crown Army
Madrid
Soe
Genoa
Corsica
Nam’d Ornani
Duke of
Dorset
Duke of Devonshire
Kingdom of Ireland
Earl of Cholmondeley
Earl of Ashburnham
Deceas
Dutchess of Northumberland
William Pakenham
Bart
Pakenham
Suffolk
Rye
Oxford
Poues
Canterbury
Robert Freind
Christ
University of Oxford
Matthew Hucton
St. George
Castle of Windsor
Southwark
George Goswell
Rowland Rowley
Robert Purday
John Cocks
Richard Mann
Sarah Dimsdale
William Swain
Bermondsey-street
Thames-street
Barns-Elms
Chelsea Beach
Leake
Jenkins
Custom House
Eart Smithfield
Linnen
New England
Virginia
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A. H
France
Holland
Petersbourg
London
Prince of
Porentru
Basil
N.S
Theatre- Royal
Drury- Lane
King
Miller of Mansfeld
Theatre-Royal
Covent-Garden
Lincoln’s-Inn- Fields
King Charles the First
Josiah Dooley
Stratford Upon Avon
Warwick
Malster
John Bishop
St. Thomas
Surrey
Cordwainer and Chapman
Eean William Préss
Taunton
Somerset
Chapman
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