Mantuan Fortifications and European Court Dispatches
From Aug 16 reports across Europe describe French state plans to fund Mentz defense with tax quotas from Hesse, Hohensee-Weickerheim, Nordlingen, Schweinfurt, and Knights orders. Paris notes Chavigny’s Berlin visit, Prussian troops praised, hunting at Deifter, Naples health, and naval movements near Leghorn as Mantua siege delays unfold.
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Mentz
Hesse
Prussia
Herenhausen
Baron of
Halloff
Meffieurs d
Loyd Harrington
Hardenberg
Barone Hartoff
Deifter
Paris
Naples
Palermo
Sicily
Martina
Baya
Leghorn
Mantua
Duke of Montemar
Mirandola
Count de Maceda
Peshbeneg
Fire destroys Dundee Post-Office and houses in week
From Dundee reports a week of fire in that town damaged multiple buildings including the Post-Office. Edinburgh hosted a horse race for the City Twenty Pound Plate with three Galloways from Morgan of Leith Hickson of Perth and Chapman of Northumberland. prize awarded to the last horse though Morgan objects noting crossing of the course. In Musselburgh yesterday John Smith a serjeant in Lord Howard of Effingham's Regiment was whipped and drummed out for insulting the king and toasting the Chevalier de St George. After sentence he paid sixpence to carry the rapier back to his captain.
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Scotland
Edinbaee
Dundee
Edinburgh
Morgan
Leith
Hickson
Perth
Chapman
Northumberland
John Smith
Lord Howard of
Effingham
Muffelburgh
Chevalier de St. George
Barbarous murder reported in Suffolk parish
Norwich August 16 reports a brutal murder at Dennington, Owles the carpenter killed by a knife wound with hands bound, a bloody dirk found nearby, and a search underway for the assailants. Burglaries and robberies by three unknown smugglers are noted in the same area, with several household names named as victims.
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Country News
Norwich
Dennington
Suffolk
Gooding
Alderhallow Green
Kerit
St. Jamess
Andrews
Stradbroke
Foreman
Ennington
Fire at Chandler's Shop Sparks Alarm in Cheapside
London report describes a morning blaze at a Chandler's shop in Old Change Cheapside near a warehouse in Carter Lane. Neighbors extinguished the fire, feared barrels of gunpowder, but damage was limited. The incident prompts enforcement of laws against storing dangerous commodities.
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London
Cheapside
Carter-lane
London Weather and Navy News From Windsor Forest to Scilly Rocks
Long fragmentary notice details naval tools failing to measure ship progress, mentions Lords of the Admiralty and Sir Cloudsley Shovel. Adds courtly movements: Duke of Cumberland, Amelia, Graffton, Walpole. Windsor Forest stag hunting. visits to Slough. marriages and appointments in Ireland and England. deaths and burials. a theft in Whitstable and a pawn broker case. Duchess of Newcastle recovering.
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London
Admiralty
Cloudsley
Scilly
Lord Belhaven
Lizard
Duke of
Henry Godolphin
Slough
Marquess of Lothian
Scotland
Lord Jedborough
Caroline Darcy
Earl of
Holderness
Duke of Buccleugh
Sunning
Philip Honywood
Perwick Upon Tweed
Richard Ruffel
Deceas
Charles Lord Cathcart
Duncannon Fort
Wexford
Ireland
Headford
Gallway
George Lord St.George
Hatley St. George
Margaret Skettington
Mafareeg
Kent
Seafalter
Whitstable
Abraham Read
Holland
Jaft
Gravesend
Mapleston
Nicholas-lane
Cannon-street
St. Martin’ Orgar
Newcastle
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France
Petitbourg
Arsenal
d’Orval
Duke de Sully
Lauragais
Ee M. Mendez
Portugal
Auteuil
Duke of Richlieu
Palais Royal
Cardinal de Richlieu
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