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Daily News from the City Fire and Massacre in the Islands
A colonial era report details a day of fasting praying and thanksgiving for preservation from Chinese plots, mass deaths and fires in the island’s Chineze quarter, and public rejoicing. It also covers finances, naval movements, court intrigues, and weathered local notices from York Scarborough and Gloucester with prices, deaths, and accidents.
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Civieze
Iland
Madrid
Barcelona
Cadiz
Plate
Don Philip
Catalonia
Assur’d
Fraustadt
Courland
Germany
Russia
Sweden
Milan
Mantua
Parma
Placentia
Tuscany
Sardinia
Scarborough
Duke of Bedford
Earl of Halderness
Marquess of Annandale
Viscount Fauconberg
Lord Barrymore
Lord Paisley
Lord Strange
Lord Colerain
Lord Cahir
Bishop of
Bishop of Kilmore, Sir Paul Methuen
Thomas Frankland
John Glynne
Robert Brown
Francis Skipwith
John Bland
Robert Hildyard
William Parsons
Stephen Anderson
Rowland Hill
George Cooke
John Hind Cotton
Thomas Lowther
Baris
Vane
George Shirley
John Shirley
Butler
Watson
Jennifton
Thurnby
Archer
Dutchess of
Bedford
Dutches of
Bridgwater
Fauconberg
Fanny Shirley
Stewarta Shirley
Lady Barrymore
Clifton
Combe
Passons
Legard
Frankland
Verney
York
Marquess of Lindsay
Gloucester
Tewkesbury
Worcester
Silisoury
Newcastle
Durham
Thomas Whitehead
George Johnson
Robert Blacker
Henry Batton
Matthew Richardson
William Ridsdale
Robert Anderson
William Brown
Walton
Corbridge
London
Venice