News from the Cape and Court in restless times
Reports of Barbary corsair activity and a captured Christian vessel prompt two gallies to pursue them while guarding other ships bound to Salerno. Earthquake fears and an epidemic drive city alarm as L Abbe Testa heads to Vienna and Vienna politics hint at new alliances. Paris contends with church wrangles and miracles. Distemper hits horses in Auvergne, St Germain, possibly from caterpillars. Marital tragedy at St Mederic church. Avignon and Toulon notices detail trials, imprisonments, and conspiracies around Father Girard. Mecklenberg nobility face Duke Charles Leopold’s orders, stock port signals. Czarina signals goodwill to Britain. Ships bound for Oporto, Cadiz, Lisbon, Barbadoes. arrivals from Virginia and Boston. Wind S W.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Barbary
Capri
Salerno
Tunis
Tripoli
L’abbe Testa
Corcia
Vienna
Paris
Count de Kinski
Cardinal de Fleuri
Marquess de Bonac
Helvetick
Rome
Auvergne
St. Germain En Jaye
St. Mederic
Toulon
Girard
Miss Cadieres
Aix
Provence
Madamoiselle
Haimbourg
Count Baffewitz
Holstein
Rostock
Mecklembourg
Charles Leopold
Schwerin
Moscow
Cure for the Scorbutic Distemper by Mr John Moore
A London notice from 1730 1731 touts Anti-Scorbutick Medicines by Mr John Moore of Laurence Pountney Lane. It claims dramatic cures for severe scurvy symptoms, details the medicines pills and a spirit, and warns readers to heed author names and avoid unproved remedies. It notes Mr Abree at Canterbury no longer sells Worm-Powders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Twico
Serbutick
Hysterick Cholick
John Moore
Laurence-Pountney’s Lane
Cannon-street
Joan Moore
Jous Moone
N.B
N. B
Abree
Canterbury
Royal Hunters Missing From Windsor Forest to Hampton Court
London dispatch notes the Royal Hunters failed to return from Windsor Forest by six in the evening. Various court and society movements are recorded, including the misfortune of Couthorpe Clayton, arrivals of the Duke and Dutchess of Devonshire, and postings related to appointments, elections, and local performances.
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Windsor Forest
Hampton Court
Couthorpe Clayton
Duke
Dutchess of
Devonshire
Piccadilly
Chatsworth
Derbyshire
Lord Cornbury
Clarendon
Rochester
Catharine Hyde
Charlotte Hyde
Munday
Cornet
Duke of Bolton
Royal Regiment of Horse-Guards
Col. Fane
Hore Grenadier Guards
Talmash
John Fitzwilliams
Viscount Fitzwilliams
Capt
Blue Guards
Duke of Richmond
Whithall
Chichester
Sussex
Radnor
King’s Bench
Duke of Chandos
Marquess of
Mr. Bull of
Dunnfield
Exact Numerical Starz-Lorrery Ledger at Union Coffee-house
At the Union Coffee-house in Exchange-Alley a numeric starz-lorerry ledger will display drawn tickets and a register book records ticket entries at sixpence each. Tickets and answers for each day and the entire drawing, plus government securities, are bought and sold by Joan Hats, broker.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Union Coffee
Exchange-Alley
Great Britain
Joan Hats
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Naples
Ploen
Don Francisco
Salter
Lisbon
S. W
James
Barland
Johan Ruffell
Duke of Bedford
Bloomsbury
St. Giles’s
Covent Garden
Mr. Chandler
Dutchess
John Ruffell
Diana Spencer
George Bob Doddington
the Treasury
Pall Mall
Thomas Pindar
Samuel Roffel
Westminster Hall
Exchequer
Serjeant
Arling
William Thomson
Haberdashers Hall
Cole
New-street
Fetter-Lane
St. Dustan’s
Tower of London
South Sea
Srtis
Bank
Ida
Roya Exchange Aslurance
London Assurance
York Buildings
Welch
India
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