Disputes Over Clergy Mandates Stir Paris Petition
Excerpt from Paris Aug 1 reports the clergy petition to the king demanding bishops may bar curates and vicars from administering sacraments without confessions, drawing a sharp response from the king. Aug 9 notes the Dauphin’s smallpox illness, with hopeful prognosis. Brussels dispatches describe Botta’s ministerial stance and Vienna’s pressure, while Lisbon rumors claim the pope pushes Portugal’s Inquisition reforms and hints at Spanish reform. Newcastle and Bath items recount local disturbances, robberies, and improvised trials, plus a London Alderman election and broader European political anxieties about succession and war.
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Paris
Mirepoix
Dauphin
France
Brussels
Marquiss de Botta
Vienna
Low Countries
Hague
Lisbon
Portugal
Spain
Holy See
Madrid
Good Intent Snow Delayed Voyage Describes Hardship
The Good Intent Snow arriving from Antigua after a long voyage of twenty four weeks left only the mate and two foremen aboard. The voyage endured sickness and famine due to long delays. In Boston a grant of 100 Old Tenor 5 was noted and Andover ministers collected relief for the poor. Also mentioned are the deaths of Rev Oliver Peabody and Colonel John Beath.
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Plantation News
Philadelphia
Wilson
Antigua
Rotterdam
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Boston
Andover
Oliver Peabody
Roxbury
John Beath
Bill to repress gaming in next Parliament session
London reports a Bill will be brought into Parliament at the next Sessions to more effectively repress the destructive practice of gaming. It is described as productive of idleness dishonesty and dangerous attempts against others properties, affecting both the rich and the poor.
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Hexham
Carlisle
Gloucester
Dogger
Bath
James Sartin
James Fuffil
Westbury
Whittsun
Rumsey
Sartin
Fuffil
Pool
Lord Pawlet
Gunstone
Trowbridge Fair
Mill House
Solomon Gunstone
Rath
Stoke
Claverton-down
John Wood
Ely
Somerset
Trowbridge
Great Britain
Duke of Arodena
Corsica
Tuscany
Italy
St. Mary Axe
Lime- Street
William Whitaker
John Porter
Elys
Salter
William Alexander
Porter
Alexander
Ratisbon
Fuly
Brunswick Lunenbourg
East Friesland
Empire
Hanover
Brandenbourg
Saxe-Lauenbourg
Brunswick Luuenbourg
Brunwick
Luuenbourg
Thofe
Sucae
Lauenbourg
Aulick Council
Dauphin
France
Europe
Duke of
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House of Bourbon
Spain
Orleans
Lewis the Xivth
Phillip
Lewis
Xivth
London
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Newcastle
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Wilkinson
Newgate Street
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