Fortifications Expanded at Metz Amid French Forts Plans
From Metz we hear of extensive fortification expansion and new works in progress, following a plan by Count de Belle-Tile. Rouen reports a leaden coffin in the Cathedral with a 143 year old noble corpse linked to the Villars-Brancas family and sieges. Corsica and Corsicans echo in mediation hopes, praising liberty while warning against French dominance and European trade peril.
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Metz
Count de Belle- Tile
Paris A-la-Main
Rouen
Villars-Brancas
Dourlans
Bastia
Europe
Corsica
Murder of Widow Jane Plane by Stephen Draper
Feversham December 25 reports a brutal murder of Jane Plane a widow aged sixty to seventy by Stephen Draper. Mr James Bunce provided weekly wheat to poor women and the accused killed the widow after questioning her about witchcraft and refusing more than a measure. Bunce and his servants seized the assailant and protected the children present.
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Feversham
Jane Plane
Stephen Draper
James Bunce
Ospringe
St. Thomas’s
Mr. Bunce
London news notes boycotts and pardons in December dispatches
In London, Alderman Cater remains dangerously ill. Rev Amproux becomes Nova Scotia Chaplain General earning about 150 per year. Reports from Arundel note smallpox ended and public health restored. Rewards offered for information on James Buchanan's rescue at Execution Dock. Several clerical and civic deaths and appointments are recorded, including promotions at court and Navy.
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London
Alderman Cater
Cheap Ward
Amproux
Bloomsbury
Nova Scotia
Elcock
Tunbridge School
Pembury
May
Arundel
Sussex
James Buchanan
Wapping
Admiralty
Buchanan
Deptford
Exster
Foulks
Christ- Church
Oxford
St. Peter
Holwell
William Holwell
Ely
Blackall
Deceas
Whitstone
Topsham
Anne Fotter
Castle-Lane
Handyside
Edwards
Amelia
Caroline
Queen’s House
Richmond
Viscount Vane
Paris
Edward Hulse
St. James’s
Thomas Goodman
George Lewis Teiffier
France
Iland
Guernsey
John Stephens
Peter Stephens
Parsonstown
King’s County
Ireland
William Parsons, Bart
Laurence Parsons
Bath
Matthew Norris
John Norris
Miral
Plymouth
Laft
Abel Peyter
Watling-street
Elg
Spittlefields
Crossstreet
Burlington Gardens
Mons
Buiffiere
Tomkins
East India Company
St. Helen’s
Commissioners of the Customs
Upper Moorfields
Capt. Thompson
Court of Assistants and Company of Cutlers
Davis
Farringdon
Hill
Hilla
Gooch
Norwich
Harris
Landaff
Elizabeth Mitchell
Lamp
Criplegate
Fenn Stanton
Cambridgeshire
Barser
Rogers
Ur. Knight
Bluntisham
St. Ives
Peckham
Gardner
Lord Trevor
North- Field
Peck
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