Far flung notices from Europe and the Mediterannean
A late 18th century bulletin notes postal arrivals from France Holland and Flanders. Diplomatic moves include Wegly Ali Effendi named minister to Kerim Kan amid Ottoman Persian tension. Prussia tensions flare as the Russian envoy departs Dantzic. Moldavian reports claim 30 000 Turks marching on Chechim and Austrian claims emerge over the fortress. Poland forbids English hardware and Dutch French wares to bolster Lemberg trade. Naples reports severe cold Vesuvius eruption fears. Rome cites Jubilee calendars with Catholic indulgences for next year. Paris notes parliament timing and a long lived elderly resident dies in Pezigord at 112.
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France
Holand
Flanders
Constantin Nople
Wegly Ali Effendi
Kerim Kan
Persia
Dittri
Baffa
Prufia
Dantzic
Golofkin
Prusis
Koningfoerg
Far
Moldavia
Chechim
Wwer
Warsaw
Poland
Austria
Holland
Lemberg
Naples
Mount Vesuvius
Rome
Cardinal-Colonna
Clement
Versailles
Paris
Mary Valade
Pep de Allais
Pezigord
Arrivals at Ports From January Maritime Passage
Vague list of ships arriving at various ports with captains and origins including Grosvenor East Indiaman to Matthew ad Ann Collins from Oporto and Marblehead, Woolten back House to Liverpool, plus arrivals at Dartmouth, Whitehaven, Falmouth and London from Rotterdam, Virginia, South Carolina, Aveiro, Meffina.
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S&s Hi
E. N
Euilety
Grosvenor
East Indiaman
Eo Matthew
Delphaven
Britanoia
Bail
South Carolina
Charlotte
Berwick
Blessing
Pearson
Tohn
Arts
Rotterdam
Eleanor
Seymore
Joseph
Longdale
Concent
Holm
Amsterdam
Dartmouth
Molly
Cale
Aveiro
Tom Codd
Gag
R¢y Martin's
Whitehaven
St. Bees
Thompson
Virginia
Falmouth
Suceas
Triman
South-Carolina
Elbe
London
Tyas
Meffina
Duke of Gloucester to seek warmer climate for health
Letters from Hambourg report frost easing on the Elbe and ships clearing for Hamburg including the Sutherland London Barclay Flying Mercury Van Lake Poscuie Mahler from London. Janney and Albion Hall Elbe Varly from Hull also up. Berlin dated Jan 6 notes Catholicks may freely exercise religion in Hanau. Hague letter Jan 16 mentions contest led by the Imperial Commission.
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London
Duke of Gloucester
Hambourg
Elbe
Sutherland
Barclay
Flying Mercury
van Lake
the Hague
Werzlar
The Bath Chronicle Notes Weather and Crime Report
A late 18th century letter from Falmouth reports mails detained by contrary winds to the West Indies New York and Charlestown. Indiamen Rochford and Colebrooke sail for the East Indies. trades and forgeries noted. robberies and arrests reported alongside marriages deaths and stock prices.
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Brandenburgh
Falmouth
West-Indies
New-York
Charles- Town
Jacy
North Carolna
Rochford and
Colebrooke
Massachusetts Importation Breach Alleged in December
A reader accuses Massachusetts merchants of secretly importing goods during the first week of December despite a formal non-importation pledge. The letter cites the alliance among colonies and calls out Cape Cod merchants for importing tea from Holland in defiance of the pledge to boycott East India tea.
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Massachusets
Cape Cod
Holland
Self contradicting oath in colonial trade covenant
A Boston Saint comments on the breach of an oath by Bolton merchants and port towns in colonial trade. The piece argues covenants fail when participants act against their interests and nature, calling the non consumption pledge inseparable from the broader oath’s collapse and urging unity despite factional motives.
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Bolton
Boston
Axium
Boston Saint
Life of Sir Matthew Hale and Rochester Earl Edition
Odey 4 This Day published Price Four Shillings in Boards Life of Sir Matthew Hale and Wilmot Earl of Rochester and Queen Mary by Bishop Burnet Richard Baxter’s Wotes to the Life of Sir Matthew Hale Funeral of the Earl of Rochester by the Rev Mr Parsons organ music Printed for T Davies Ruffel-street Told by J Bew Parerroster-row
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Matthew, Hale
Wilmot Earl
Rochester
Queen Mary
Bishop Burnet
Richard ‘Baxter
Matthew Hale
Earl of Rochester
Parsons
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Sam. Dunn
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Robert
Thomas Kitchen
Robert Sayer
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Royal Exchange
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Feather
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Nan Sweeten
Ralph Schomberg
M.D
Society of Antiquaries
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Russell
Womb- Abbey
Lord Russell Agginst
Johoe
C. Dilly
J. Rabfin
Walter
Charing -Dross
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Earl of Macclesfield
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