Concordat boosts royal authority and clerical taxes in Europe
Madrid reports a favorable outcome from the Concordat with the Holy See, strengthening the king's control over clergy and allowing taxes on ecclesiastical revenues. Voltaire seeks retirement but remains in the king's good graces. War-mobilization notes, court appointments, and various incidents across Europe fill the latest dispatches.
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France
Holland
Madrid
Holy See
Rome
Marquis de la Ensenada
Catalonia
Sacred College
Antony Xavier Gentili
Berlin
C. M. Voltaire
Marche
Neupelzig
M. Schack
Leipsick
M. Voltaire
Prussia
Paris Alamain
Sieur Louys
Prince Charles of
First Torioite Caught Off This Coast At Kinfale
On March 27, a fishery report notes a live Torioite captured near the Old Head of Kinfale by a local Fishing-Beat. The fish weighed about a hundred weight and is claimed to be the first of its kind ever landed on the coast.
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Kinfale
Reprieves Reported for Prisoners at York Castle
York April 3 reports that all condemned prisoners at the castle are reprieved except Bezaliel Knowles for murder and David Hark ness for horse stealing. The execution is set for next Saturday. Edward Wells, convicted of forgery, is reprieved to the 28th instant.
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Country News
York
Bezaliel Knowles
David Harkness
Edward Wells
Signor Expedient Opens Sale of Expectations in London
London reports debunk the notion that Signor Expedient is dead or out of business. He intends to open a sale of expectations in King’s Street and an Intelligence Office at Whitehall, promising renewed industry, commerce, and public spirit amid ongoing winter disappointments. The piece notes corn and fishery bounty, land by plough, sea by ships, and mentions a papal loan tied to Spanish treaty aims to expand territory and population under the Pope.
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Cana's
Deddington
Oxfordshire
Oxford
John James Wetstein
Amsterdam
Royal Academy of Berlin
Royal Society
Lyde Browne
Foster-Lane
Soiety of Antiquaries
Rolls Gate
Chancery Lane
St. George’s
Clogher
Mount Sinai
Holy Land
Eaypr
Bangor
Collins
Worcester
Bath
Peggy Afton
Thomas Afton
Afton
County of
Chester
Deceas
Paris
Brest
Rochefort
Pondicherry
Golconda
France
Prussia
Hanover
Empire
Berlin
Mentz
Lower
Alsace
Madrid
Hague
Joseph
Second Infanta of
Portugal
Order of the Bath
St. Janes’s
Kensington
Earl of
London
King’s Street
Whitehall
Spain
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Newgate
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