Polish Diet Protest Against Elections and Nuncios
In Turbay May 18 officials report widespread protests in districts where new convocation letters arrived. Manifestoes in Palatinates denounce foreign troops and urge opposition to electing a Marshal of the Diet or Nuncios. Signed by Michael Stecki and others, Zeitomierz territorial judge, among locals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austria
Hungary
Poland
Russia
Lithuania
Prussia
Ivot
Diet
Michael ‘Stecki
Zeitomierz
Harsh Weather Hurts Convoy and Fair Prices
May 17 Salistury reports at Lymington fair cheese prices fell five shillings per hundred amid plenty. May 14 Lynn notes ship Thomas Huggins from this port, laden with corn for London, driven ashore near Thornham in a hard gale. cargo lost. captain's wife sister and a passenger lost. additional vessels on shore along Lincolnshire coast.
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Lymington
Lynn
King George
Thomas Huggins
London
Thornham
Arrivals and Passages From Various Ports and Ships
May entries record arrivals and ship movements including Amity Thompson from Zante to the Creek with crew members and India Filer Boyce, and multiple passings by Calais Packet Gilbie Ostend Peter Nelson Ebenezer Frederickson from Norway Le Mon Wichelo from Naples Johannah Harrison from Alicant. Also listed are Shrimp Moor Peegy Peake Elizabeth M Ghee from Rotterdam and Gideonard Hannah Gilbie from Dunkirk, plus arrivals at Bristol Ramsey Neptune Wright from Zante Falmouth Ann Boas from Oporto Lancaster Hull Ambuscade Manns from Alicante Liverpoole Betsey Stevenson from Jamaica.
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Amity
Thompson
Zante
Boyce
Gravesenn
Gilbie
Calais
Ostend
Peter
Nelson
Ebenezer
Frederickson
Norway
Lemon
Wichelo
Naples
Johannah
Groningen
Ramsey
Frm
South Carolina
Neptune
Wright
Falmouth
Ann
Boas
Oporto
Lancaster
Hull
Barcelona
Ambuscade
Manns
Alicant
Court to Kew in Summer Amidst Court Circular Notes
Extra from the Hague reports religious controversy with Holland’s penalties for blasphemous works. Swiss Cantons bolster troops per Geneva dispatch. Trials over City of London disfranchisement set for next Friday at Guildhall. Lisbon mail notes a Madeira sighting of a burning ship. Judith’s captain Duthie reports a green female figure on a vessel.
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St. James’s
Kew
the Hague
Holland
Geneva
London
Recorder
Guildhall
Lisbon
Hampden
Braithwaite
Falmouth
Madeira
Duthie
Portugal
New England
Restoration era notices from a 18th century gazette
The item lists appointments and promotions within royal and church offices including Edward Lloyd named Mews-Keeper at Charinp-crofe replacing the late Montague, and Egerton Leigh becoming Attorney General of South Carolina. It notes salary fixes for the Grand Falconer, a rectory presentation to Rev Mydhope Wallis, a vessel movement between the Isle of Sky and Liverpool, charitable bequests to church figures, a marriage in Mayfair, and several deaths and obituaries in Bristol Somerset Dorset and Hampshire.
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Edward Lloyd
Montague
Egerton Leigh
South Carolina
Great Britain
England
Mydhope Wallis
St. John
Cornwall
Egeleston
Isle of Sky
Liverpool
Betty
Shaw
Riga
Beaumaris
Paris
St. Bartholomew the Great
Lecurer
St. Sepulchre’s Zool
Samuel Love
Bristol
Banwell
Somersetshire
Robert Cotton
Etq
Winkfield
Hinton
Hampshire
Winchester
Overton
Cave
Maid of Kent Comedy at Drury Lane Benefit Show
Account of The Maid of Kent a new comedy at Theatre Royal Drury Lane for Mr Waldron's benefit. Cast includes Parsons Packer Richacre Goodman and Emily with a plot of child exchange, mistaken parentage, two marriages thwarted, and a rescue scene ending with Lord Sealand attempting assault before George Goodman intervenes.
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Kent
Theatre- Royal
Drury-lane
Waldron
Parsons
Packer
A Restoration Era Farce of Kidnapping and Courtship
A fragmented stage piece features Lord Sea land plotting to seize a young woman for a yacht voyage aided by Le Poudre and Q Connor. Emily is abducted after a chase in the garden while Sir Thomas, Dr. Goldraan, and George Goodman learn of the plan. Subplots include William and Patty’s matrimony as the action resolves with Emily returning to Sir Thomas, and moral lines about virtue and class pepper the dialogue.
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Thomas Richacre
Goodman
George Goodman
la Poudre
BadJely
Brian O'Connor
Moody
Lord Sealand
Davies
Metre
Waldron
William Strongbow
Vernon
Emily
Miss Younge
Patty Metre
Big Pope
Dame Quickset
Bradshaw
Sir Thomas
Ient
George
Patty
William
Kentith
Thomas
Lord Sedland
How
le Poudre
Lord Zealand
Doctor
Chace
George Gdddman
Bryan O'Conner
Carroll
Iria
Tsar
Fune
England
Childen
T. Catan
Telemachus
Ulysses
Cambray
Royal
George Prince of Wales
Beard
Prince Frederick
Ormabaigh
Prince William Henry
Michael Angelo
Prince Edwarde Price
Tommy Littleton
London Ciigs
Charley Chadter
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Tursbay
Country News
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Flegancy
Roy
Monument
Arcadia
J. Dodsley
Pall-mail
Mr. Keate
Republic of Geneva
Marriott
Seacroft
Globe
Charing-cross
St. John’s
Hackney
Eorge R
Eorge
Great- Britain
France
Benjamin Collins
New Sarum
Wilts
Fuourte Neas
Benjamin Cuibas
Boois J
Gurfelf Ax
F. Newbery
St. Paul's Church Yard
Oppsite
Mc Dicey, Beynon, and Co
Bowy Chusch Yaet
Lardon
Andron and Co
St. Peter
Joseph Greenhill
A.M
Batt.Horsley
East-Clandon
Surry
E. Johnson
Avemary-lane
Avemary-lane, Ludgateftreet
Tom Wildman
S. Feved
Teller
J. Walliams
Mitre Tavern
Fleet
Rama
Mark the Rambler
Patrick O'Donnel
Feweil
Lady M
Henniyer
ST. Bartholomew
M. Voltaire
Ghate
Charing-croig
Jean Flennnyer
W. Bavley
Cockspur-street
A. Rothwell
Francis Newbery
Newbery
St. Paul's Chure
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