King rejects Palermo plea for Duke de Fogliati return
Foreign Affairs reports the King dismissed consuls plea for the Duke de Fogliati to come back to Palermo as improper without administration chiefs consent. A second, loyal Senate petition urged recall. Venice Senate decrees regulate abbey revenues and attach curates stipends to curacies in perpetuity, no surrender to monasteries.
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Marcu
Navres
Palermo
Duke de Fogliati
Duke de Fogliani
Senate of
Venice
Gloucester Flood Devastates Roads Hurts Travel in March
Gloucester reports three days of severe rain and flooding surpassing prior records. Roads between Gloucester Cirencester and to Bath were blocked. the Bath road halted, postmen drowned nearby Hempstead, and a boy froze to death on the Bath road. A rescuer saved man and horse from the rising causeway. Dowderwell's son and two horses reportedly froze to death on the hills near Winchcombe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Country News
Gloucester
Cirencester
London
Hereford
Nettleton-bottom
Birdlip
Bath Road
Bristol
Hempstead
Edward Vickers
Worcester
Broomsgrove
Tewksbury
Guiting
Dowderwell
Arrivals at Plymouth and Falmouth from Rotterdam and Lisbon
Maritime notice lists arrivals at Plymouth and Falmouth from Rotterdam and Lisbon. Vessels named include Thomas and William from St Abe's, William and Thomas from Camme!, Racehorse from Trapany, with other ships from Embiden and Amsterdam in transit.
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Dear
Marcus
Downs
Gravesend
Marcuig
Witlemayne
Wiliams
Embiden
Virtue
Walbank
Deborah
Butcher
Betsey
Polly
Barker
Princess Royal
Addey
Rotterdam
Plymouth
Thomas
William
Albert
St. Abe's
Camme
Lisbon
Falmouth
Trapany
Royal Europe War Talks and Trade Tangles Highlight 18th Century Dispatches
Extracts from letters and reports sketch European tensions with Spain and Russia, detentions of Dutch ships, and rising meat prices tied to Smithfield practices. Notes on river navigation, London court actions, crime reports, lottery prizes, and a Staffordshire will case interweave with glimpses of royal visits, naval strength, and parliament-era economic concerns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Windsor-caffle
Hague
Cadiz
Spain
England
Europe
Vienna
F—ce
Ruffia
Porte
Rufia
Vitigue
Rugea
Sourt
Corsica
William
Ireland
Marlborough
Rhine
Danube
Flanders
America
Denmark
Holland
Guildhall
Turner
Wilkes
Kirkman
Esdaile
Thomas
Plomer
Sayer
Canal Committee
River Lee Company
Pole
Monro
Gravesend
India
Philpot
Feversham
Exon
Fowey
Smithfield
Charles II
Staffordshire
Blunt
William Swinnerton
John Cheadle
Stafford
Court of Chancery
Henley Upon Thames
Kingston
John Gordon
John Barrat
Dobbins
Barrat
Foot- Guards
Half-Moon
Holborn
Dolley
Baker
King-street
East-Smithfield
Ludgate-hill
Obscure 18th Century Death Notices in London Area
Fragmentary obituary notices record the deaths and local positions of several figures in London and surrounding towns. Mentions include a lord chancellor figure, Sir Richard Adams Kne, and mention of Mr George Fryer and his brother with a factory in Aldermanbury. Also referenced are a town clerk from Leominster and various tradesmen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chartcellor
Huntingdon
Richard Adams
Court of Exchequer
Lady's ad fragment cites Covent Garden address
Fragment of a printed notice titled By a LADY mentions Grants and a Covent Garden address. It references a fold for the convenience of the Trade and a Bev with a number and street details, likely from an advertising page. The readable text is incomplete and lacks a clear event or date.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grant
Street
Covent
Garden
Bev
F. Newbery
St. Paul's Churchyard
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Suttonstreet
Golwell-street
Adtfiith
New-prison
Clerkenwell
Yeterday
Somerset
Royal Academy
Wood-street
Sive
Bow-street
Samuel Robinson
William Grigg
Bevers
Kensington
Thars
Abigail Potter
Elizabeth Glaze
Grigg
Israel Breakwell
William Houghton
Fox
Dale+street
Bloomsbury
Breakwell
Houghton
William Lane
John Rotier De-Laime
Hutchinson
Taylor
Haman
Tutchinson
de Laime
Isne
William Hill
John Petit
Lord
Newcasstle
Newcastle
Alexander Gordon
Ann Hudson
Edward Minton
Thomas Morgan
King’s
Minton
Twickenham
Morgan
John Herley
Hamilton
Bagnal
Boulton
Duck
John Clif
Str.Philip's Church
Birmingham
Arthur Lewis
Thein‘ford
Fensford
County of North
Mondz
Philip
Earl of
Chederfield
St. James
Beckingham House
Kew
Gunnersbury
Hosses
Cumberland
Northumberland
Sion
Alnwick Castle
Pennington
Turlington
Balsam
Artha Wray
Mary Sopp
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John Wray
Martha Wray
Martha Way
Hilton Wray Omy
Robert Turiington
Wiliam Wray
Marty Wray
Mary Sopgy
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