Lands overflowed by Elbe floods affect Brandenburgh villages
From the London Gazette May 1 report that forty six villages in Brandenburgh were flooded as the Upper Elbe broke three dykes, forcing nobility to seek safety in garrets for days. The disaster worsened poverty, with rising food prices and peasant hardship, while local brokers and merchants in London and Manchester prepare notices and appearances at Guildhall and Royal Oak. A Banff incident ends with the linen manufacturer William Robertson killed and two officers imprisoned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brandenburgh
Elbe
James Travis
Gracechurch Street
London
Guildhall
Henry Marchington
Philip Marchington
James Marchington
Manchester
Clothiers and Copartners
the Royal Oak
Edinburgh
Banff
William Robertson
Court upholds postmaster letter delivery ruling in Gloucester
In Gloucester on Friday last the Court of King's Bench ruled for plaintiff Mr Stock against Gabriel Harris the Postmaster. The decision states that post towns must deliver letters to the addressees with only the legal postage as gratuity, and that delivery limits are determined by town customs. Other items note deaths near Andover, a Trowbridge murder suspicion, and multiple ship arrivals and departures across various ports.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gloucester
Stock
Gabriel Harris
Court of King’s Bench
Salisbury
Lymington
London
Andover
Whitchurch
Trowbridge
Devizes Bridewell
Imperial News from Europe and Atlantic Outposts 1771
A long column of overseas and domestic items lists travelers with origins in London Bristol and Cork, ship movements and court motions. It notes the Duke of Richmond’s motion in the Upper Assembly and the Habeas Corpus case of Richard Oliver, with responses from parliamentary authorities. It cites foreign reports from Giurgove, Danube conquests, and Russia, Denmark court changes, military rosters, and Lambourn Races details with entry rules and prizes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Duke of Richmond
Lord Chatham
Lord Camden
Lord Lyttelton
Richard Oliver
Barons of
Oliver
Chatham
Portsmouth
Plymouth
Navy
Elliot
Burgoyne
Foot Guards
Royal Regiment of Horse Guards
Dragoon Guards
Dragoons
Count Romanzoff
Giurgave
Olitz
Danube
Arabian horse sale offers two mares at ten guineas each
Two Arabian mares bred by the King of Sinnan in Mores mountains Yanam Arabia Felix are offered at ten guineas. One greys 15 hands ½, the other brown 14 hands 3 inches. Good grass for mares with care. Payment before removal. Mr Gregory's groom will show the horses. Chigwell eleven miles from Whitechapel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denmark
Count Moltke
St. James’s Gate
Wheatly
Whitechapel
Romford
Essex
John William Birch
Royal Regiment of Horse Guards
Joseph Darby
Lambeth Chapel
Mr. Cornwallis
Canterbury
Earl Cornwallis
Mann
Saville-row
St. George’s
Hanover-square
James Berry
Charles-street
Berkeley-S Quare
Elizabeth Hinde
New Bond-street
Dover-street
Edmund Walters
Beaconsfield
Buck
Harrow On the Hill
Francis Parr
King’s College, Cambridge
Salisbury
Stone
Newton Hall
Kettering
Northamptonshire
Nathaniel Hall
Westminster Abbey
Thomas Vokins
Lamoge
France
Pierre la Borie
Red Lion Inn
Lambourne
Wanitege
Berks
Lambourn
Runming
Ashdown Park
Red Lion
Lord Craven
Sinnan
Mores
Yanam
Arabia Felix
Gregory
Chigwell
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The
London Gazette
S&s
John Mowrie
Exeter
Berlon's
Henry Hale
Southwark
Surry
Ohn
M‘craken
Bristol
Tomas Price
Samuel Horton
St. George the Martyr
Cyder
Robert Stringer
Newgate-Street
Blue Maker
Isccotland
Country News
Ship News
Dear
Arait
Wind N. E
Godfrey Fan
India
Dutton Eat Indiaman
Carolina
Doxner
Lisbon
Aaron
Ayton
Zant
Jonge Barisin
Groningen
Magna Charta
Maitland
Merriton
Boulogne
Merchent
Burchett
Ostend
Antigua
Charming Polly
Sheene
Laroche
Bremen
Elizabeth
Spilker
Gibraltar
Fortune
Jenkins
Genoa
Liberty
Bishop
Courtney
Bringley
Toptham
Stangate Creek
Iris
Lewellin
Saloe
Jenny
Lampton
Sicily
Sicily. At Hamburgh: Anna Margritta
Carslens
Chiristina
Hilas
Virginia
Matty, Fox
Mogadore
Prince Frederick
Hanna
Falmouth
Hero
Bellarick
Xabia
Barbadoes
Brenan
Eleanor
Adams
Gibbons
Coare
Trent
Knight
Madeira
Success
Cookson
Sally
Chamber
Africa
William
Calvert
Fanny
Polly
Chinchen
Gallipoly
Queen of
the Hague
Vienna
Petersbourg
Prince de Lobkowitz
Russia
Constantinople
Grea-Britain
Prussia
Republic of the United Provinces
Netherlands
Sellwood
Tuting Ad Fawconer
Borts
Bartholcomew
Levy Lavender
Kempsten
Bedfordshire
Bedford
Carmarthen
Towy
Mathews
Fleet-street
James
Lew
Joshua Williams
William Turner
Harstzed
Charles Smith
Lincoln’s Inn-Welds
Isaac Siyth
Halfed
Norwich
Bury
Messrs, Reavely and
Humphreys
No. 2
Coneycourt
Gray’s Inn
Henry Dance
Colchuster
Harrington
Clare
Suffolk
Turner
Vaugelas
William Harrington
Richardson
Charles,Grandison
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