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Rumor of European Treaties and War Preparations Amidst Seaboard Trade
Letters from Madrid, Berlin, Amsterdam, and London describe cautious shifts in diplomacy and mounting war prep. Emperors, kings, and ministers align on succession, territorial claims, and potential concedes over Juliers Bergues and Ravenstein. Fleet movements, blockades, and port pressures heighten tension. A Longford case reports the brutal murder of Father Gaffney, while an advertised cure-all claims to heal severe sores with improbable rapidity.
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M. Dubourgay
Madrid
Count Conigregg
Cadiz
America
Urretcht
Italy
Republick of
Venice
Hanover
Milan
Turkey
Amsterdam
Berlin
Prussia
House of Austria
Juliers
Bergues
Sultzbach
Breg
Ravenstein
Pruffia
Prusia
London
Hannover
Czarina
Spain
Admiral Hofier
Porto Bello
England
Elettor
Cology
Bavaria
Palatinate
Rome
Felix
Baltic
Jacob Downers Fter
Bayonne
Brittany
Hans Zeelanse
Wilfie Dickfie
Helsingbourg
Wybrand Pieter Loft
Landskroon
Lars Finbersh
St. Ube’s
Faleberburgh
A. J. Lung
Stockholn
Memell
Courland
Claes Swarts
Stockholm
Koster
Riga
Coningsberg
Danzi
Bornholm
Ham Tierkz
Stetin
John Wopkes Schoenmaker
Petersbo
Rotterdam
Dantzick
Jutland
Dublin
Longford
Jal Gaffney
Lanford