Royal family worship and foreign affairs in a Christmas Day report
The piece recounts the Royal Family’s Christmas Day church service at St James's Chapel and notes the Queen and Prince of Wales attendance. It also details global dispatches: Prussia exiling Cardinal de Bernis, Conti to command in Germany, deserters joining Prussia, naval captures near St Cas Bay, and several ships captured or detained by British privateers and naval forces, including the Diamond, Entreprenant, and ships from Martinique, Dunkirk, and North Carolina.
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Maidenhead
Berks
Prince of Wales
Dutch
France
Prince of Conti
Germany
Marshal Contades
Empire
Prussia
Maplesdon
Patton
Elphingston
Navy
St. Cas
Barbadoes
Diamond
Martinico
Richmond
Hankerson
Yarmouth Roads
Pentreprenant
Dominique de Vitrie
Dunkirk
Zealand
Liverpool
Ball
North Carolina
Pilkington
Holland
Alberts
Cette
Petersbourg
Corke
Hughes
Bristol
Alicant
Marseilles
Adam
Mifer
London
Allen
America
Mary
Lawrence Norris
Ireland
Havre
Guineas
George Horsley
Charles Hales
Yarmouth
Samuel
Whitby
Matter
Matthew Burton
Robert Forster
Ditto
John Betagh
John Poryer
Samuel Rowe
Plymouth
Baltimore
Robert Farthing
The
Providence
Scarborough
Robert Lum Jey
William Garbett
Prince George
Newcastle
Nathaniel ‘Fatin
Thomas Maud
Fragmented notes on early crime and parish records
fragmentary OCR excerpt notes a robbery and transport to America alongside a detailed 18th century burial and mortality tally. It lists a crime involving robbing a gentleman from Epping Forrest, transport to America, and a long ledger-like summary of christenings burials and causes of death for various age groups in 1757 1758, with counts of deaths by disease age and method.
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Jong Hitnessy
Thomas
Way Mabey
Epping
Southworth
Fordayer’s
Margaret’s Hill
The Raising of Supplies and Its Political Echo
Postscript from London argues raising part of yearly supplies would empower the nation and please creditors while harming labour and manufactures. It contends heavier taxes reduce foreign trade, threaten real wealth, and test administration integrity, citing Oxford news on chancellorship candidates.
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London
Poffeffeon
Dangerous Dutch Privateers and Harbour Blockade Report
An account notes Dutch ship Dirk Rootis boarded near Guinea by four English privateers robbing goods. Another dispatch from Portsmouth reports Royal navy ships at Spithead under Admiral Saunders and Holbourne, with the East Indies fleet victualing. many ships of the line being prepared for spring, and about 40 sail in the harbour under Admiral Holbourne.
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BANOS
Tandon
Bithopsgate
Mary
Balter
Mt. Palitier
Ladgatentill
St. Peter
Magithicoyy
Dirk Rootis
Guinea
Amsterdam
Iglith
Portsmouth
Spithead
Ramilies
Admiral Saunders
Magnanime
Chichester
Falkland
Plymouth
East Indies
Admiral Holbourne
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Senegal
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Chattey Wind
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Tobias Brandhof
Hela
Ralph Webb
Welton
Suffolk
Dionis
Lime Street
Jacob Welch
Fetterlane
Fleetstreet
Pally Grace
Lime-street
Neale
Draggitt
Lombard: Street
Hatwell
Cornwall
Mullett
Potts
Strand
Craring-cross
Postscript
Oxford
Westmoreland
Litchfield
Cockpit Royal
St. James’s Park
Wiltshire
Kent
Cope
Adams
William Somerville
G. Hawkins
Milton
Middle Temple Gate
Fleet-Street
M. Cooper
Patersnofter Row
Zevo
Deana
James Harvey
Weston Favell
Northamptonshire
John Rivington
St. Paul’s Church Yard
W. Strahan
James Rivington
J. Fletcher
R. Baldwin
W. Johniston
J. Richardson
G Keith
Crowder
K. Davey
D B. Law
T. Field
E. Dilley
le Connoisseur
Town
Mr. Johnson
Dr. Hawkesworth
Meff. Whartons
Great Britain
Henrietta
Lucy Wellers
James Ramble
Countess HK
Robinson Crusoe
Roderick Random
Hayman
Peregrine Pickle
Gill Bla
Felicia
Charlotte
Mos