Feasts of the Sons of the Clergy Stewardship 1755
The stewards for the Feast of the Sons of the Clergy for the year 1755 report the charity money from rehearsal and musical events at St Paul’s and Merchant Taylor’s Hall totaling 1096 pounds 3 shillings 6 pence. Payments list numerous tradespeople and residents funded for children’s relief across several towns and counties. Also notes the foreign minister and a Paris plot, plus a Scotland item on church music reform and a loyalty address to the king.
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St. Paul’s
Merchant-Taylors Hall
Fordrm
Senate
Paris
Lamain
Troyes
Sayers
Mons. de Caffini
Academy Royal
Rumors and Political Shifts Across Europe in April
Reports from Berlin and Versailles in April describe noble unrest in Lithuania and a resigned government official aiming to retire in Venice. The Emperor presses ministers to justify his stance against Duke Mecklenburgh’s complaints while seeking a swift resolution. Stockholm notes a discovered conspiracy to assassinate several senators and alter Sweden’s government.
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France
Holland
Berlin
Lithuania
Neufthatel
Venice
Hesle-Caffel
Empire
Duke of Mecklenburgh
Versailles
M. de Sechelles
M. de Morns
Paris
Stockholm
Baron Hopken
Count Teffin
Baron Wiede
Baron Shefter
Description of Fortifications at St Philip’s Castle Mahon Harbour
An extract describes St Philip’s Castle Mahon Harbour including its position on a neck of land, four Bastions and curtains, deep rock-cut ditch, governor’s house chapel guard rooms and barracks, a central pump and cistern, extensive ramparts with guns, and easy ascent stairs for men and mules. Subterranean galleries link work areas, offering shelter and countermines, with hornworks and numerous guns guarding the harbour entrance and land approaches.
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Minorca
Ordnance
St. Philip’s Castle
Mahon Harbour
St. Stephen’s Cove
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