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London Parliament responds to grants and adjourns session
The August 1714 dispatch reports Lords and Commons praising grants for the Crown and promising faithful representation. Delegates note adjournment until Wednesday, while other items describe European moves, sieges, and royal orders across Madrid, Vienna, Berlin, and Hamburg as tensions rise in the War of the Spanish Succession.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
House of Commons
Ais
Madrid
N.S
Gadiz
Martin Westcombe
Great Britain
Bureh
Junco
Gemaa
Majorce
Duke of
Berwick
Barcelona
Vienna
Eugene
Baden
Berlin
Prafis
Alt-Landsberg
Prassie
Holend
George
Alt- Landsberg
Hanover
Coningsberg
Magdeburg
Cleves
Needaden
Prince Lugene