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Fire at Patack and Destruction in Upper Hungary
A large fire in Patack, Upper Hungary, destroyed the Jesuit church and convent, seminary, several houses, most of the castle, and melted a bell weighing around a hundred weight. Reports note trade talks between Sweden and Denmark, naval appointments, and various dispatches from ports and courts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Patack
Upper
Hungary
Sweden
Denmark
Indies
China
Earl of Granard
Turin
John Norris
Portsemouth
St. James's
Capt. Ingram
Chird Regiment of Foot Guards
Earl of Dunmore
Lord John Murray
Lord Dunmore
Col. Ingram
Admiralty Office
Oxford
Barbadoes
Portsmouth
Alfure
Island of Bars
Bombay
William Cowan
Robert Cowan
Tregony
Cornwall
Robert
Ireland
Ivry
France
Hague
States General
Palatine
Prussia
House of Palatine
Juliers
Bergues
Holland
Zealand
Gueldertand
Republick
Profia
Guelderland
Leiden
Vienna
Paris
Viena
Prusia
Theodore
Amsterdam
Gibraltar
Augustus Earl of Berkeley
Ae. Brievals
Forest of Dean
Gloucester