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Accidents and Arrivals Highlight 1696 UK and Abroad
An Amidst a diverse 1696 gazette mix reports a rare orange tree bloom in Versailles, plans for a Mansion House site in London, Jamaica troop concerns, gifts to the Duke of Richmond, a Leopard gift from Barbadoes, naval appointments for the Prince of Orange, and Duke of Richmond horse acquisitions. Also noted are the death of Mr Caffels linked to an assassination plot, a Rastadt dispatch praising Marshal d Asfeldt, and pending peace talks at The Hague, plus local bread prices, Irish legal prosecutions, and church wardens’ directives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Versailles
France
St. Lewis’s
Khan
Gresham College
Bishopsgate-street
Broad-street
Leadenhall
Jamaica
England
Hepysham
Alderman Perry
Barbadoes
Duke of Richmond
Whitehall
Board of Admiralty
John Norris
Holland
Caffels
Newgate
William
Major Bernardi
Blacke
Rastad
Winthiem
Black Forest
d’Asfeldt
Strasbourg