Fire at Aix in Netherlands town destroys most houses
Chamberry April 7 report describes a major fire at Aix near the Lake Bourger, burning lower-town houses from Chamberly Gate to the lakeside area. Only the Marquess d Autremont’s residence and a baths house survive as authorities move to address bathwater contamination concerns. Hamburgh April 28 notes the Duke of Holstein’s poor health, with no immediate danger, and Paris May 2 recounts a miraculous moving skull found in a churchyard near Nogent, provoking a Curé led procession and Te Deum. The Marquess d Antin prepares Brest-bound squadron for deployment, awaiting orders.
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Aix
Dutchy
Stuate
Bourger
Chamberly Gate
d’Autremont
Sardinia
Hamburgh
Duke of
Holstein
Paris A-la-Main
Macon
Nogent
Seine
d’Antin
Brest
Stormy Sunday Seaboard Ravages Ports and Portsoy Pier
Edinburgh reports dismal coastal news from several North Sea ports. The Sunday storm raged with extraordinary violence causing numerous ship losses and widespread wrecks. Portsoy pier was driven in and the harbor entrance choked, preventing most boats from entering.
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Edinburgh
Portsoy
Drake Sloop Refits After Hartlepool Clash News
News from Sunderland and Newcastle reports multiple vessels driven from the coast after last Sunday night storm. The Adventure arrives safe in Hartlepool, Hedworth driven ashore near Scarborough but repairable, a companion sloop with others perished, Edward and Margaret reaches Bridlington Pier, and a ship near Scarborough abandoned with uncertain ownership. In Newcastle several ships suffer heavy losses, with men saved or lost at Yarmouth Roads and Bolougn coast, plus a fox hunt referenced at Hamster Common for fifty guineas a side. A fire tears through Farmer Rofe's stable in Stow in the Wold, burning the house and materials, threatening further flames without water and engine access.
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Sunderland
Hartlepool
Tinmosth Haven
William Dun
Hedworth
John Weems
Scarborough
Edward
Margaret
Harper
Bridlington Pier
Newcastle
Martha
Arnold
London
Yarmouth Roads
William and
Elizabeth
Ralph Burfield
Matter
Bologn
Old Bowes
Herman
Whitby
Hamfel-Common
Northumberland
Yorkshire
Gloucester
Stow
Wold
Rofe
John Kent
London News Roundup of Ship Launches and Elections
Saturday next the Duke a Second-Rate ship is to be launched at Woolwich, while reports arrive of the Earl of Chesterfield in town and General Wade soon visiting Scotland. Westminster Bridge work advances, Parliament elections unfold in Ashburton and Beaumaris, and several arrests, marriages, races, and deaths fill the day’s notices across London and nearby towns.
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Woolwich
Earl of Chesterfield
Bath
Wade
Scotland
Westminster
Westminster Bridge
Ashburton
Devonshire
Joseph Taylor
Roger Tuckfeild
Ely
Deceas
Thomas Drury, Bart
Taylor
Drury- Lane
Robert Walpole
Earl of Halifax
Countess of Gainsborough
Great George-street
Lord Vere Beauclerck
Duke of St
Beaumaris
Isle of Anglesey
Plymouth
Robert Byng
Duke of Marlborough
Regiment of Foot
Leeward Islands
Ireland
Baltick
Cole
Richmond
Surrey
Micklewright
Hatton Garden
George Hodges
Mary Sewell
Lawrence
Fleet-Street
Lockyer
Jace
Fleet-Bridge
Dover
France
Michael Newton
Newmarket
Lord Halifax
Cavendish Square
Miss Finch
John Finch
Maidstone
Kent
Hoxton
John Lewis Loubier
Hoghourn
Kidder
Goeo
Shad-Thames
Knightsbridge
East-India Company
Cambridge
Richard Snagg
Batchelor
Chesterton
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