Dutch Defences Rebut Spanish Claims Of Cruelty
The States General reply to complaints by asserting they never authorized violence, noting an inquiry found private Saxons attacked by Spanish, while three Spanish Guarda Costas were sunk by Dutch ships defending themselves. They list Dutch losses and ships seized to argue that Spanish depredations pale in comparison to the alleged injuries in the West Indies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
Holland
Curaco
Court of Spain
Sidies
Guarda Costas
Republick
SUMMER AT RABY CASTLE AND DEATH SENTENCES AT AFFIZES
From Darlington reports that at Raby Castle the Right Hon William Pitt Teney was present as the season ends. At Reading Affizes three men received the death sentence for setting fire and burglary. two were to be transported and two kept. At Oxford Affizes three were sentenced for house breaking but reprieved for transportation. Two were hanged in the hand.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newcastle
Darlington
William Pulteney
Raby-Caslle
Glousa
Thomas Hitchcock
Robert Malloway
William Parrot
Farringdon
Highworth
Oxford
Deartt
William Thayer
Henry Matty
John Cooke
London Gossip and Society Notes From the Season
News and social items from London include Don Thomas Geraldine hiring lodgings in Richmond for the season, a Sussex marriage spark between Nashaviél Trayton and Mini Parker, and Mrs Rogers of Ryslip remembered. A fire in Kensington Square damaged nearby homes, and mentions of a French man of war off the island Des and a Fitherman treated aboard a ship near Sandown Bay.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Don Thomas Geraldine
Richmond
Nashaviél Trayton
Lewes
Sussex
Somers¢-House
Mini Parker
Water Parker
Batron- In-Sussex
Bastian
Hfe
James Rogers
Ryslip
County of Middlesex
Miss Rogers’s
Hayle
Mt. Creeke
Deéor
Tus
Isla Des
Sheena
David’ Prouten
Ion
Thie Gozft
Sandown Bay
Meeting of Ministers at Chelsea Discusses Naval Preparations
Tuesday report details a gathering at Sir Robert Walpole's Chelsea house where ministers debated Admiralty matters. Updates note Captain Fox appointed to HMS Newsside, concerns about the Dutch and Spanish theaters, and various military and political changes including appointive shifts in Grenadier Guards and potential parliamentary candidates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Fatpole
Chelsea
Board of Admiralty
Pathis
Dinkirk
Mitutte
Thomas Fox
Qiddis
Ordnance Office
Gannoalia
Guris
S. Roach Giphat
Haddock
Port St. Mary’s
William Duckett
Calne
Wiltshire
Haying
Grenadier Guards
Elliot
Earl of Grantham
Broughton
Randa
Randal
Vienna
Earl of Crawford
Belgrade
Cro Zka
Robert Smith
Serjeant
Prime
St. Edmund’s Bury
Suffolk
Broadstreet
St. Anne’s
Michael Margetts
Middlesex
Liberty of
Westminster
Foot-Guards
Great Brook Street
Grosvenor Square
Frances de la Rochefoucaur
Marquess de Montandre
England
Guernsty
Ordnance
Ireland
France
William
Baron Spanheim
Prussia
Robert Twycross
Waterperry
Oxford
Chamberlain
Christ Church
University of Oxford
Foulkes
Bath and Weils
Northampton
Samuel Collyer
John Auslin
Winchester
Nicholas Downing
Ness
Southwark
King& Ston
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London
Huntingdon
Richard Goodyer
Elizabeth
Newgate
William Biers
Oless
Pleanor Knight
Pristiley
Makor
Mr. White
Linnen
Daylsi Fromébondon
Beathly
Fairlee
Goodwin
Bowrie
Bristol
Jamaica
Betty
Spence
Gulph
Florida
Portugal
London Gazette
Whitehall
Pnomas-Bullock
Chitof
Norwich
John Baron
India
Royal Exchange Assurance
Prem
Dicee
Gripekor
Dafier
Wraldes
Hopkins
Goldpamith
Ian Heat
Fileet-Bridgty
Itobis
Pringpel
Big Esfiness
Lincoln
Orie
Guintas
Leigine
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