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Foreign Intelligence Report from Seventeenth Century Europe
A compilation notes military movements in Spain and Italy, with ships and prizes in privateering, orders to fit out men of war by October 12, and dispatches to Valencia. It also covers intrigues tied to Cardinal Alberoni, a murky incident with a Turkish ambassador’s cook, Prussia urging Catholics’ privileges, Calvinists in Hamburg facing scrutiny, papal concessions for French bishops, limits disputes between Britain and France over North American boundaries, London proroguing Parliament, and local crime reports including highway robbery and a stolen horse notice from Ireland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Malaga
Sanetuck
Tagus
Ostend
Alivant
Valecia
Catalonia
Vienna
Genoa
Alberoni
Lick House
Dantei
Otober
Hamburg
Edzard
Piuffias
Paris
Cardinal de la Tremouille
Rome
Baden
Annapolis Royal
Cape Breton
Balaguer
Puberda
Bellesva
Urgel
London O&oh
Wadd,wich
Oxford
Newgate
Blackheath
Thor
Eiall
Southwark
Haid
Tywa
Cloamell
Tipperary
John Berry
Woodroofe