General Pacification Talks and Amsterdam Riots Chronicle
Reports from The London Gazette describe ministers accepting preliminaries for a general pacification and Plenipotentiaries signing acts. meanwhile Amsterdam suffers a mob pogrom with houses burned and vigilante actions by magistrates. Prince of Orange moves to Holland assembly to push abolishing Pacthters taxes, risking revenue loss. Utrecht protests prompt tax relief on essentials. General La Roque sentenced to life imprisonment, Duke of Newcastle travels to Hanover amid farmer unrest and armed Burghers clashing with Swiss troops as riots flare in Harlem and Leyden.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dix la Chapelle
Soto
Count Chandos
Rutemond
Luxemburgh
Hague
Amsterdam
Harlem
Leyden
Stadt-House
Prince of Orange
States of Holland
Utrecht
Duke of Newcastle
Hanover
Holland
Prince of Orange Sickness Causes Proclamations Amid Unrest
An extract from a letter reports the Stadtholder the Prince of Orange fell ill with a violent fit, various causes cited, yet the event prompted a state proclamation. Farmers of taxes are blamed for corruption and excess, fueling public discontent as word of unrest spreads through Holland cities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Assembly of the States of Holland
Commonwealth
Helland
Edinburgh Dispatch on Highland Dress and Clergy Edicts
Edinburgh reports General Philip Anstruther arriving, then leaving for Fife. The Disarming Act allows landlords to keep three guns three pistols and a sword. Highland dress parts restricted with Plaid Kelts and Philebeg banned after December 25. Episcopal clergy in Scotland face dismissal after September 29 without English or Irish bishop licences. A seceding preacher at Banefield criticizes the Associate Synod and its leaders from the pulpit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scotland
Edinburgh
Ram
Philip Anstruther
Fife
England
Ireland
Clark
Banefield
Ebenezer Erskine
Confirmations and Visitation Dates for Diocese Clergy
The Right Rev. Bishop announces confirmations at Mickleton Marshfield Tewkesbury and Gloucester on upcoming Sundays. Archdeacon Geekie will conduct visitations across Cirencester Stow Campden Gloucester Cheltenham Stroud Dursley Chipping-Sodbury and Bristol with dates in July. Also a fire at Fullbrook Park near Warwick destroyed house barn stables and racks, valued at several hundred pounds, singeing the master's hair.
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Gloucester
Mickleton
Marshfield
Tewkesbury
Geekie
Cirencester
Stow
Campden
Cheltenham
Stroud
Dursley
Chipping-Sodbury
Bristol
Fullbrook Park
Warwick
Cowes Fleet Sails for Convoy and Trade Run
In late June the Swift under Cook left Lyme for Madeira and Barbados then moved to Spithead to seek a convoy. Santa Luize under Cardozo sailed to Cork from Rotterdam while William and Anne of Scarborough with Unity also departed for Colchester and London respectively. Dover Man of War pushed westward as the Epand and Greyhound remain. wind from the northeast.
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Cowes
Fune
Swift
Cook
Lyme
Madeira
Barbadoes
Spithead
Santa Luize
Cardozo
Cork
Rotterdam
Pool
William and Anne
Scarborough
Williamton
Colchester
Unity
Thompson
London
Gage Deal
Funezi
Wind N. E
Dover
Pingel
Antigua
Duke of Cumberland
England
Guildhall
Westminster-Bridge
Old Palace-Yard
Westminster
the India Company
Whitehall
Great Britain
Berwick
Ruffel
Diamond
Jersey
Navy Office
Admiralty
Jamaica
Knowles
Havannah
Cornwall
Lenox
Prince
Falmouth
St. Heléna
Onslow
Lynn
Prince Edward
Norfolk
Stafford
York
Grantham
Bencoolen
St. Helena
Danish Majesty Audiences Readers Advise Civil Affairs
The Copenhagen report states the Danish King welcomed all who sought an audience and inquired into towns along his route, ordered public buildings repaired, and showed strong regard for subjects' interests. Other items note Prussian ministerial plans, Dutch public sentiment against French garrison, English visitors to Versailles, and naval/lottery updates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Copenhagen
Holstein
Berlin
Poland
Lithuania
Maastricht
Fartheist
Paris
England
Versailles
Channel
Hotel of Anjou
Hague
Academy of Sciences
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London Gazette
Groningert
Friesland
Imire
Nonsler
Harlein
Leydeng
Gonda
Samuel
Betty
Naylor
William
Kirks
Kingston
Perkins
Leverpool
Endeavour
Sympson
Robert
Ormy
Virginia
Glasgow
Tinely
Theodosia
Hunter
Gibraltar
Carolina
Ormand
Dtinkwater
Vviis
Phe Nottra de Padra
Almac
Ifbon
Foreign Affairs
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