Distant Dublin and Salisbury News Highlights
Dublin notes report the death of Ms Charles Crows in Avignon and the Earl of Darnley arriving from England. A series of local incidents follow including a fatal apoplexy, a stabbing, a sheriff’s interment, a marriage at Loftus Hall, bread-baker tensions, and a Bakers' plea of hardship. Country items cover suicides, hangings, a throat wound, robbery, and executions in Salisbury and Daventry with details on fate and punishment.
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Ireland
Dublin
Charles Crows
Duke of Ormond
Avignon
Earl of
Henry ‘Jones
Kevan-street
Coneybrook Fair
Connor
New-street
Newte
Vincent Kidder
St Warburgh’s
Nicholas Loftus
Loftus Hall
Wexford
Mary Hume
Gustavus Hume
J. Fontune
Salisoury
Dag
Bishopstone
Sarum
William Turner
Thorpe
Thomas.Creed
Payne
Joshua
Stockbridge
Salisbury
Northampton
Lloyd
Daventry
John Harabin
Engagement With Turkish Galliots Endangers Neapolitan Bark
A Naples letter dated August 11 reports a naval engagement near Naples between a Neapolitan bark carrying rations for the government and four Turkish galliots. The bark was sunk by one galliot, two others were captured, and the fourth escaped with two soldiers and four sailors aboard. The king promoted the officer who led the soldiers from captaincy to rank, previously an ensign, and he commanded thirty swift ships in this service.
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Naples
Cambridge MP election rumour and royal notices in London
Reports from Exeter say Gilbert Affleck of Dallham will stand as Cambridge MP to replace the late Thomas Sclaser Bacon. Other items note judges attending a Cambridge affize sermon, civic elections in Denbighshire and Chester, excise officers cracking down on home produced wines, royal baptisms and noble births, a Bartholomew Fair incognito visit by the Prince and Princess of Wales, and various deaths and marriages including Coventry mayor Thomas Hunt and Captain Edward Meadows in Whitehall.
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Gilbert Affleck
Dallham
Bridgeshire
Cambridge
Great Britain
Thomas Sclaser Bacon
Deceas
Exeter
Dtc
St. Peer
Archdeacon Stephens
Wathin Willams Wyse
Neme
Denbighfire
Wet-Chester
Royal
Society of Excisemen
Thomas Wyndham
Duke of Cumberland
Prince of Wales
Petre
Fhorodon
Essex
Rotterdam
Hanover
Cardinal Infant of Spain
Archbishoprick
Toledo
Bilboa
Hubert, Esq
Deanstreet
Soho
Andrews
Grantham Andrews
Sunbury
County of Middlesex
Ezekiel Dickenson
Bristol
Fanny Barnard
Pentack’s
Kingston
Prince and Princess of Wales
Bartholomew Fair
Smithfield
Holbourn
Kensington
Robert Walpole
Treasumy
Crewe Tavegn
Robert
Coventry
Thomas Hunt
Warwick
City of
Woolley
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