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!
Voluminous royal dispatchs from Lisbon to Seville and beyond
A long set of dated letters report Moorish ambushes near a town, a successful counterattack by infantry, and a siege plan with 12 000 attacking and 9 000 defending troops. Also noted are court appointments, an anti luxury ordinance, naval moves near Majorca, fort building in Persia, and various London society notices including deaths, theatre ads, and stock prices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lord Thrawley
Great Britain
England
Mazagnon
Seville
Marquess de Verboom
Prince of Asturias
Don Thomas Irriberg
Duke of Ripperda
Indies
Barcelona
Catalonia
Majorca
Malaya
Petersbourg
Archangel
Greenland
Emrror
Persia
Estonia
Asaph
Warsaw
Grodno
Lithuania
Republick
Berlin
Courts
Dresden
Lusatia
Radowski
Poland
Deal
Randolph
Bolling
Virginia
Dolphin
Webber
Gibraltar
Turkey
Anne
Mews
Leghorn
Morris
Malaga
Wind S. E. Deal
Philipia
Osborn
Unicorn
Pulkinhorn
Falmouth
Manchester
Sutton
Dublin
Downs
Katharine
Snelgrove
Rotterdam
Guinea
Duke
Dutchess of Richmond
Privy Gardens
Kensington
Brigadier Sutton
Caffel
Wolfenbuttel
Regiment of Foot
George Groves
Dutchess of Buckingham
Yorkshire
Bath
Lady Kneller
John Herbert
Smith
Capper
Henry Morgan
County of
Monmouth
Rice
Deceas
Newgate
Clapham
Lambeth
Clapham Common