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Foreign and Domestick News From Lisbon to Scotland
Reports from Lisbon July 13 note the King of Spain's agent in England for the South Sea Company sails for Karied as pirates press for a prize. A storm off the Cape of Good Hope wrecks two pirate vessels with prisoners escaping. Vienna cites a plan to reinforce Italian magazines. Paris details troop movements and Alsace officer returns. Paris August 19 mentions Walpole seeking relief for the Protestants’ declaration. A nun’s 300 year old corpse found and reburied. Rome says cardinals rise to 72. pope gifts 109002 crowns plus gold to the tender of the Pretender. Scotland reports the death of Alexander Hume, Earl of Marchmont and linked titles, with genealogical notes on Polwarth lineage.
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Lisbon
Hoe
Spain
England
South Sea Company
London
Goa
Cape Gado
Legues
Mozambique
Vienna
Florence
Eugene
Italy
Paris
Alsace
Flanders
Compiegne
Hambourg
Lergue
Walpole
Great Britain
Duke of Bourbon
Cardinal de Nostes
Rome
Nis
St. Peter’s Gh
Walliam Fownes
Eatrouce
Ireland
Scotland
Alexander Hume
Earl of Marchmont
Blazenberry
Polwarth
Redbrays
Greenlaw
Garonet
Lace Sner
Berwick
Patrick Hume
William
Pelwarth
Seffrin
Vincent Blazenberry
Pelwarth of
Red
Brays and Greenlaw