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Treaty of Marriage Rumor and Wartime News Abroad
Rumors speak of a marriage treaty between the Earl of Strafford and Lady Anne Campbell. The French ministry faces dejection after news of Porto Bello’s capture by the English, with Cartagena and Spanish plans under discussion. Reports from Madrid, Paris, and London detail armament, neutrality, and potential shifts in alliances amid rising tensions across Europe.
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Earl of Strafford
Anne Campbell
Duke of Argyll and
Greenwich
Noel Somerset
Duke of Beaufort
Miss Berkeley
Viscountess Hereford
Porto Bello
Carthagena
Spain
Count de la March
Minorca
Great Britain
Earl of Waldegrave
France
Eimperor
Seaces
Feerg
Lord Waldegrave
M. de Lautrec
London
M. de Lautre
Couns Canbis
Prodia
Berlin
Toulon
Brest
Italy
Vienna
Europe
York
Brown
Howse
Micklepats Bar
Lesters
South Carolina
Oglesthorpe
Baekfon
Carolina
St. Augustine
Georgia
Molland
Boston
New-England
John Boydell
Eig
Massachusers Bay
New- Hampshire
Rhode Island
Province Plantation
Natragage
County of King’s Province
Yenty-Jonathan Belcher
Andrew Belcher
Shute
Hutchinson
Henry Welsteed
Ace of Wight
Gibraltar
Prike
Jamaica
Benjamin Wickhast
Newport
Stockholm
Betoixe
Sana
George Groban
Newfoundland
Medley
Pitcher’ S Point Dock
Limehouses
Limehouse