Armistice talks and port limits amid Genoa, Turin prompts
The London Gazette reports on armistice talks between French and Piedmontese troops with Baron Leutrum, Mirepoix, and Belleisle progressing toward limits along the Rosa and Ventimiglia to Sospel line. It notes carrier dispatches from Warsaw and Constantinople, a hurricane in Arezzo, and powder reports from Genoa and Vienna with ongoing troop movements and taxes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Naples
Portici
St. Carlo
Adriatick
Tripoline Rovers
Baron Lentrum
Ponente
Marshal Belleisle
Baron Leutrum
Piemont
M. Mirepoix
Dauphine
Storms and Decrees Mark Edinburgh Notices
In Edinburgh the Magistrates vow not to take sentence money for future decrees, a precedent for Royal Burghs. Recent storms caused floods. water entered horse stables and shops citywide. Mr. William Adam, respected architect, and Mrs. Isabella Bannantyne, wife of Roderick Macleod, Writer to the Sinnet, died, lamented by many.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scotland
Edinburgh
A&t
Royal Burrows
William
Adam
Isabella Bannantyne
Spovse
Roderick Macleod
Sinnet
Murder Suspect in Somerset Sent to Bridewell
Bath July 2 Last Sunday Morning Richard Biggs a Woollen-Draper and Coveanvary Morning man was arrested at Rudge Beckington near Frome. He confessed to an argument that led to blows and his wife’s death by a quarry fall then being cast into a river to conceal the body. His child will testify. On Wednesday Jane Combs was found drowned in the river at Lambridge after an evening with three young men.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brown
Republick of
Genoa
Gena
Vienna
Friesg
Warsaw
Poland
Elector of Saxony
Faly
Count de la Salle
Ratisbon
Columb
Bohemia
Upper Palatinate
Paris
Marshal Saxe
Compeigne
States of Brabant
Saxe
Zwergen-op-Zoom
Ae Sia
Hague
Chamberly
Don Philip
Italy
Spain
Parma
Country-News
Bath
Richard Collins
Richard Biggs
Rudge
Beckington
Frome
Joseph Houlton
Somerset
Shepton-Mallet Bridewell
Jane Combs
Lucker
Lambridge
Sailing arrivals and departures in a 17th century listing
A maritime notices page records numerous ship arrivals and departures. Vessels such as Warren Nevin and Successy Sherwill reach New England and Leghorn ships arrive in Dover or Jamaica, with many other catalogued craft from London, Barbadoes, Africa, and Bermuda noted at various ports.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Deal
Fuly
Wind S
Dover
Seahawse
Jones
Newfoundland
Litto
Ogle
Brown
Maryland
Liverpool
Betsey
Elton
Bermudas
Downs
Real Gully
Phillips
Leghorn
King
Denmark
Wats
Chinas
Copenhagen
Brooke
White
Rowley
Africa
Moor
Jamaica
Nancy
Lamb
Barbadoes
Lancaster
Hunter
Keates
Paul
Fairmouth
Earl of Radnor
Williams
St. Kitts
Also Mentioned on This Page
The
London Gazette
Helland
Constantinople
Grand Cairo
Florence
Arezzo
Florentine
Man
Falconia
Hort
Duke de Richelieu
d’Ahwmada
Tapis
Hizhhefé
Savoy
Victoria
France
Brown Thall
Cline
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