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Factional Rivalries and Plagues Reach Dublin in 1732 News
The text outlines dueling electors in Saxony and Poland with factions backing King Stanislaus, plus fears of civil conflict if factions unite. A Paris letter notes deadly new colds ravaging the city and surrounding areas, with about eighteen thousand deaths and sixty thousand bloodings in a month. Reports also describe Parliament building plans for the two houses and the Cotton Library, appointments in the royal household, a forthcoming Marlborough campaigns book, and various notices from Dublin about pensions, oaths, and local commerce including a new draper shop and a seed sale. multiple officials ill and banking dividends declared.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elector
Saxony
Ferdinand
Bavaria
Stanislaus
Wieniowski
Lithuania
Brance
Paris
Earl of Burlington
Robert Coke
Lord Lovell
William Beachlerck
Joseph Jekyll
Duke of Marlborough
Thomas Clutterbuck
Leskard
Cornwall
William Strickland
Earl of Cholmondeley
Whitehall
Lord Palmerstone
St. James’s Square