Holland Placcarts renew beer duties and brewing ban
The States of Holland publish two Placarts. One confirms that beer duties were not abolished and bans new brew houses or brewing by non public brewers under a heavy penalty. The other restrains importing beer brewed outside the province and reimposes duties once paid since the Pachters’ abolition. Hague December 31. Also updates on Stadtholder regulations in Friesland and notable arrivals. Whitehall notes new English customs and trade commissioners appointed including Halifax and Grenville.
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Holland
Hague
Fan
Prince Stadtholder
Greffier Fagel
Friesland
Mordaunt
Whitehall
John Evelyn
Bart
Bryan Fairfax
George Westby
Richard Chandler
Beaumont Hotham
Samuel Mead
Gwyn Vaughan
William Levint
Edward Hooper
Elgrs
Great Britain
England
George Dunk
Earl of Halifax
Robert Herbert
John Pitt
Baptist Leveson Gower
James Grenville
Thomas Hay
Viscount Dupplin
Francis Fane
Thomas Robinson
Knight of the
Bath
Richard Plummer
Foreign Affairs News Promises Pardon for Rufian Deserters
In a December dispatch from Warsaw a manifesto promises a general pardon to Ruffian deserters and other Russian subjects who return home or rejoin Imperial troops by May next. It also offers rewards for arrest and delivery of deserters. Additional letters from Vienna and Aix-la-Chapelle discuss European power plays, troop movements, evacuations, and tensions among the Empire, France, and the United Provinces.
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Warsaw
George Lieven
Russia
Grand
Vienna
Cologn
Saxony
Bavaria
Palatine
France
Low Countries
Bohemia
Saxe-Weymiar
Dita
Prussia
Gotha
Empire
Uo Lyons
Marseilles
Provence
Languedoc
Lyonnois
Savoy
Switzerland
Friburgh
Rosen
Colmar
Rhine
Germany
Reien
Aix-la-Chapelle
Count de Caunitz
M. du Thei
Maastricht
d’Aremberg
Italy
Don Philip
Count de Bentinck
Aberdeen Fisherman Feeds River Don Beast Thirty Feet Long
Edinburgh dispatches report a vast fish about twenty feet in length and nine feet in circumference caught at the mouth of the River Don. A violent snow storm near Strathbogie claimed a labourer who died trying to guide his wife home. The same night a man at Forgie-side near Keith perished while seeking a child at the mill.
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Cc Otland
Edinburgh
Aberdeen
Don
Carnie
Strathbogie
Forgie-side
Keith
Ships in severe storm suffer hull damage and losses
Newcastle reports Transport ships Neptune Thornton and Liberty and Property Meek reached Shields after a 30 hour SW gale. The Liberty and Property carried 40 to 50 horses with seven dying. Neptune housed 500 soldiers bound for Leith. Both vessels need repairs before reaching their forts, likely delaying plans. Nearby Deal ship news lists Hastings and others arriving at Cadiz Marseilles and Boston.
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Newcastle
Neptune
Thornton
Meek
Shields
Helford
S. W
London
Pulteney
Leith
Deal
Hastings
Palgrave
Stock
Cadiz
Providence
Mitchell
Marseilles
Sarah
Elizabeth
Fadre
Ditto
Boston
Grainger
Piscatacqua
Margate Road
Prince Charles of Lorraine Considers High Military Rank
A Vienna report states Prince Charles of Lorraine and a cadre of field marshals in her Imperial Majesty's service are presently considering the most appropriate rank for service.
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Vienna
Prince Charles of Lorrain
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Foreign Affairs
Paris
A Lamain
Hungary
Modena
Order of the Holy Ghost
Duke de Richlieu
Versailles
Mark
Father Segaud
Society of Jesus
St. Anthony’s Street
M. de Perfigny
Pont-Beauvoism
Infanta
Berlin
Duke de Saxe
St. Fohn’s
Antigua
Rippon
Jamaica
Centaur
Tyrrel
Sombrero
Havannah
St. Thomas’s
St. Kit’s
Porto Rico
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