Turkish News from Paris and Constantinople Notes on Court Moves
Report from Versailles Paris and Venice describe Ottoman Grand Vizir's move toward command and 20 000 troops ready for action. Queen of France rumored with child and Fontenaule Abbey preparations for young ladies and potential marriages. Cardinal Fleury thriving, mediation proposed between Spain and Britain. Various letters mention Persia rebellion and Kouli Kani illness as rumors.
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Constantinople
Zwanteck
Seraglio
Octakow
Bothnia
Versailles
Quééi
Fonténaule
Angers
France
de Rochechouart
Madame
Madame -Anna- Henrietta
Prince of
Spain
Great’ Britain
Paris
Quesnel
Battil
Venice
Smyrna
Bacha
Persia
Thomas Kouli-Kan
Czervizeck
Candahar
Dublin Alderman Macarrell Elected Lord Mayor and Sheriffs Named
Ireland April 15 report lists Alderman Macarrell elected Lord Mayor for the year ahead and Thomas Baker and George Ripton, Esq. named as sheriffs. A marriage last Tuesday united Rev Henry to Miss Dowling daughter of Marcus Dowling of Ballinlough Meath, noted as a person of merit and fortune. Also mentions a famous ox bred at Ballinlough in Meath by Hugh Reily, Esq.
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Dublin
Macarrell
Thomas Baker
George Ripton
Henry
Miss Dowling
Marcus Dowling
Fry
Beatty
Ballinlough
Meath
Hugh Reily
Auction Note on Ox Purchase by Ormond Market Trader
John Frayne of Ormond Market bought an ox at auction. The price was shown as 20 Guingas. The animal stood about two feet two inches high, with the rest of the details unclear from the fragment.
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John Frayne
Ormond Market
Races at Cowper crown two Cranston horses at Edinburgh
On Tuesday at Cowper the Silver Tankard of 20 value went to a Bay Mare owned by Lord Cranston. Thursday saw a 15 Guinea purse won by a Black Mare belonging to Lord Cranston’s gentlemen of the county. Miss Johnson, heiress of soul per Ann, married Captain Fielding in the English Chapel.
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Sco.tlawn
Edinburgh
Cowper
Lord Cranston
Johnson
Ann
Capt
Fielding
Derby Marriage Of Dr Smith And Sarah Soar In Public
Country news records the April marriage at St Alkmund's Church of Samuel Smith known as Dr Smith to Sarah Soar after a prior drunken incident. Ipswich stage coach robbed near Latingford Watering, about 31 shillings taken by a man on a hay horse. Norwich stage coach robbed near Aideburgh. money taken, coachman warned. Benjamin Nuthall, Esq. named Receiver-General of the Land Tax for part of Norfolk, with Timothy Balderston and Benjamin Nutharl acting in Norwich. Bristol riot near the Woman's House leads to ten pound rewards. Bartlet arrested and bound for the next assizes.
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Derby
Samuel Smith
Smith
Sarah Soar
St. Alkmund’s
Ipswich
Latingford Watering
Colchester
Norwich
London
Aideburgh
Benjamin Nuthall
Simon Taylor
Norfolk
Timothy Balderston
Benjamin Nutharl
Elgis
Bristol
Thomas Boon
London Deaths from Sudden Collapse and Fire Calamity
London news reports John Fowler esq collapsed near St Thomas's Gateway Southwark after churchgoing. He died instantly from a suspected apoplexy following a head contusion. Fowler, a scarlet dyer by trade and former High Sheriff for Rutland, left a handsome estate. A Chester dispatch describes a fatal house fire at Worfall Denbighshire near seven miles away, discovered about five in the morning by a worker. the countryman’s noise awoke two gentlemen in the vicinity as the blaze consumed beds, with others nearby reporting the alarm and reactions.
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London
John Fowler
St. Thomas’s Gateway
Southwark
St. Mary Overy’s
County of
Rutland
Chéster
Fire devastates estate amid royal travels and repairs
A fierce fire destroyed the gentleman's house leaving Shadkerry and his wife to escape via a window while two daughters reached the roof and were rescued. Servants leapt from windows, one servant fatally injured, another missing, and the cook perished. The damage allegedly reaches around 20,000 pounds as royal events unfold with the Prince and Princess of Wales attending St James's and planning residence at Cliveden.
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St. James’s Church
Oxford
Clieten’ House
County of
Bucks
Bea
Lord North
Helfton
Cornwall
Board of Works
Hugh Howard
Deceas
Augustus Townshend
Viscount Townshend
East India Company
Count Clermont
Royal Society
Andre
Arthur Onslow
House of Commons
Hof
William Burton
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