Fortifications and Movements Around Cremona and Tyrol
April notes from Cremona and Mantua describe extensive fortifications along the Oglio with a line fortified by several mail forts and five bridges. Marshal de Vikar’s quarters are established in Cremona as Imperial forces arrive from Tyrol and more horse regiments and artillery are expected to form the army for upcoming campaign operations. The Dutchess Dowager of Saxe-Mersebourg dies, while Horace Walpole arrives in Hague and meets Regency lords.
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Cremona
Secchiz
Tisia
Marshal de Vikars
Mantus
Tyrol
France
Duke of Berwick
Spire
Metterheim
Saxe-Mersebourg
Nassau- Irstein
Dolitch
Hague
Horace Walpele Arriv
London
Harwich
Anniversary of Deliverance Celebrated in Norwith
The April 13 event in Norwith marks the anniversary of liberation from the planned Excise. Celebrations included bells, steeple streams, illuminated tapers numbered 205, and songs of loyalty to the Royal Family. Healths to the Majesties and to Peace at home closed the observance, with flags bearing No Pensioners No Excise.
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Norwith
Prince and Princess of Orange
Edmund Bacon
Wodehouse
Edward Ward
Mr. Branthwayte
Ignis Faruus
London Elections Loom at Brentford in Grand County Campaign
London reports a large gathering of Middlesex gentlemen clergy and freeholders to back Sir Francis Child and William Pulteney in the county elections. The Brentford vote is set for April 25 with other counties and boroughs scheduling contests through May and June. The page notes resignations promotions and a Sabbath council after royal accessions.
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Brentford
Middlesex
Francis Child
William Pulteney
Edward Harley
Ely
Welters Cornwal
Knights of the Shire
Hereford
Southampton
Winchester
County of Essex
Chelmsford
Sussex
Chichester
County of Norfolk
Charles Leslie
3D Regiment of Foot-Guards
Scotkind
Shire
Fife
Opporiton
John Anstruther
King’s Works
Scotland
Joseph Pennington
Cumberland
James Lowshes
Knights of ‘the Shire
Prince and Princess of Orange Sail for Rotterdam
The Prince and Princess of Orange will embark next week from Greenwich for Rotterdam aboard the Fox and their retinue on the William and Mary and other vessels. From Rotterdam they will travel to Amsterdam and Friesland. The Conde de Montijo and the Marquess de Chavigny have rented houses at Richmond for the summer. Five hundred sailors from Ireland join a Downes squadron ready to sail in 24 hours. Various nobles plan campaigns and volunteer service in European armies. The King attends Parliament, appoints commissioners for Scotland, and prorogues the session as news from Europe and Ireland flows in.
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Prince and Princess of Orange
Greenwich
Rotterdam
Fubbs Yarcitz
Prince of Orange
Amsterdam
Friesland
Conde de Montijo
Spain
Duke of Buckinghamshire
Earl of Orrery
Duke of
Berwick Upon the Rhine
Charles Hay
Marquess of Tweddale
Mr. Carey
Falkland
St. James’s
Mary
Prince and Princess of
Orange
Christ’s Church and
Bridewell
St. Bride’s Church
Rochester
Haberdashers Hall
Alderman Barber
House of Peers
Marquess of Lothian
Church of Scotland
Edinburgh
Archbishop of Canterbury
Thomas Rymer
Tiverton School
Jones
Shmuel Wesley
Sanchdy
Bethnnie Green
George Smith
Middlesex
Charles'Mordaunt, Bart
Cléveland-Goutt
St. James's
Baron Wachtendonck
Elector Palatine
Pall- Mall
Admiralty Office
Sir John Norris
Admiral Stewart
Dover
Norway
Baltick
Ireland
Robert Walpole
Great-Britain
Berlin
France
Baron de Wallenrod
Munich
Dantzick
Italy
Don Carlos
Naples
Sicily
Milan
N.S
Mantuan
Hackelbur
Gortes-Engel
Stanislaus
John Meekins
Somerset House
Duke of Devonshire
Houseold
Darnford
Kent
Howard
Yarmouth
Euphrates
Peacock
Halifax
Butler
Scanderoon
Cyprus
Turkey
Deal
Downs
Nesterday
St. Edmundsbury
Suffolk
John Nor
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