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Court and Foreign News From June Dispatches
The lettered item reports on James Cope being named Secretary to negotiators in Antwerp for a new tariff in the Austrian Netherlands, royal movements to Richmond and Hampton Court, and Queen consort and Prince preparations. It notes church reform rumors in Paris, military maneuvers by Count Manich and Ottoman forces, harvest notes, tolls and excise receipts, a Edinburgh provost bill, a St George’s Church marriage, a damaging Wapping fire and a nine foot sturgeon presented to the King, plus various royal visits and a London prisoner incident. It ends with a maritime report from St Christophers about slave unrest aboard the Prince of Orange.
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William
Earl of Dundonald
Whitehall
James Cope
Ely
Antwerp
Germany
United Provinces
Netherlands
London
Paris
Holland
Arion
Manich
Bender
Oczakow
Hungary
Spain
Lords
Commons
Edinburgh
Holland Mail
Caffa
Crim
St. James
Richmond
Hampton-Court
Prince and Princess of Wales
Kew
Countess Dowager of
Oxford
Rolls] Street
Bloomsbury
M. Chauvelin
Grosbois
Bourges
Stanifisus
Col
Douglas
Duke of Queensberry
St. George’s Church
Hanover Square
Viscountess
Irwin
Vilcome Irwin
Dughter
Earl of Carlisle
Princess of Wales
Windsor
Bell-Dock
Wapping
Nancy
Lord Hervey
Ickeporth
Suffolk
Earl of Bisfol
Catharine Hyde
Fiarl of
Rochester
Clarendon
St. Jamess Square
Montague
Regiment of Foot
Pool
Dorsetshire
Prince of Orange Arrifol
Japhat Bird
St. Christophers
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