Monarchs Move Toward Diplomatic Gifts and Clergy Ailments
News from Stockhelm and Vienna reports the King plans to present a departure gift to heirs of the late envoy Mr. Vilmes, a practice for foreign ministers. In Warsaw the Prince Bishop of Cracow weakens, favors a pension and coadjutor, while the Pope’s Nuncio and Austrian minister discuss arrangement. Madrid notes Cadiz fleet sailed on the 13th with Marquis of Caffa Tilly commanding.
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Stockhelm
Vilmes
Vienna
Hungary
Warsaw
Cracow
Polock
Madrid
Cadiz
Marquis of Caffa Tilly
Robberies Hit English Churches and Missing Communion Plate
In Solihull Knowle Henley Kenilworth and Quarendon churches thieves struck by night stealing gold fringe silver cup and plate amid disrupted services. Multiple churches in Nottinghamshire Warwickshire and Buckinghamshire reported break ins with varied loot. Reading reports the body of Edward Stroud was found in the Kennet river.
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Country News
Birmingham
Solihull
Church of Knowle
Henni'y
Quarendon Church
Bingham
Ratcliff-upon- Trent
Nottinghamshire
Kenilworth
Warwick
Reading
Edward Stroud
William,Stroud
Kennet
High Bridge
Shinweld
Northampton
Boor
Lord Salisbury
Chetwood-common
Buckinghamshire
Arrivals and Passages From Various Ports
Ships and crews reported at Gravesend and other ports on December 15 and 14. Vessels sailing to Lisbon, St Kitts, and the River Thames. arrivals include John and Eleanor, Ann, Otto, and William from distant ports. multiple ships from Hamburg, Ostend, Bilboa, Gibraltar, and Cadiz. Names of capstains, vessels, and routes appear in a brisk late 18th to early 19th century maritime update.
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Hamburgh
Friendship
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Resolution
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Elzahbeth
Scott
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Watson
Petersburgh
Elizabeth
James
Welton
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Eleanor
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Otto
Ann
Squarrey
Newfound End
Bristol
William
Phelps
Mogadore
Henry
Joseph
Sevie
Waterford
Victory
Cranfbro
Cadiz
Limerick
Peggy
Murphy
London
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Bell
Spier
Gottenburgh
Dima
Elphasica
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Munt
Britto
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Smith
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Kenan
Continent War Pact Drafted for Britain Aid
London reports a compacts among three Northern Powers to supply 65 000 troops for Britain in a continental war, sparing England from deploying soldiers. Letters from Philadelphia note a ship carrying tobacco reaching Nantes and Benjamin Franklin arriving with the Reprisal privateer, bound for Paris. Spanish dispatches say Cadiz fleet plans only a six week coastal voyage to Portugal.
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Great Britain
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Portugal
War News From Westphalia And New England Letters
Reports from Magne note orders for troops in Pomerania to prepare for campaign and garrisons, with tents and supplies. A Dresden letter mentions Saxony Elector and Electress dispute, while Lancaster letters describe Bowes’ capture by an American privateer near Dartmouth. Admiralty updates cover damage at Portsmouth dockyard and ships in commission. local trials and deaths are logged along with births and marriages.
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Bowes
Ann
Bedford
Dartmouth
New-England
United States
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West Indies
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Miss Ellis
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Guildhall
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Loman’s Pond
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Jonathan Fisher
Devorshire
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Fleet Street
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Canterbury
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Ringwould
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Old Broad-street
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Lobbe
West Horsey
Nichols
Clergyman and Family Letters Promoted as New Edition
A notice for This Day publications announces the fourth edition of ILLAGE MEMOIRS in a series of letters between a country clergyman and his family and his son in town. Printed for T Davies and sold by J Walter and J Bew at Covent Garden and Charing Cross.
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Strand
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J. Wallis
C. Stonehouse
Yorick’s Head
Ludgate-street
Eubed
Teit Artus
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Shesworne
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Cripplegate
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Paternofter-row
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Mexico
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France
Florida
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Groureda
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Sherlock
Norton’s Drops Promoted as Universal Cure all Diseases
An advertisement touts Macredarn’s Drops as a universal remedy for leprosy scurvy ulcers fistulas rheumatism and many blood disorders. It claims digestion appetite strengthening and restorative effects for weakened constitutions and warns buyers to avoid counterfeits sold by impostors.
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London
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