Storms and Thunder Hit Dutch Brabant and Holland
Yesterday a violent storm mixed with snow hail and thunder swept Holland and Brabant. Lightning shattered spires and caused alarms in Zwol and surrounding towns. Some towers burned briefly and a sentinel died near a powder magazine. Copper mine prospects near town excite hopes for local employment and export potential.
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Zwol
Overy Fiel
Derune
Bois le Duc
Eindhoven
Deutekom
Zutphen
Herenthals
Brabant
Emmerick
Doesburg
Vianen
Utretch
Ireland Cork Fan Resolution to honor Rev Dr Swift with Freedom
Our worthy Citizens in Cork have resolved to present the Rev Dr Swift D S P D with the Freedom of the City in a silver box for his services to the nation. Also notes Naas and Dublin items including deaths and marriages, a long ejectment trial, a sheriff and druggist death, and flax feed loss at Linnen Manufacture trustees.
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Ireland
Cork
Swift
D.S.P
Naas
Otway
Dublin
Angel Inn
Kill
Wentworth Harman
Lord Mountgarret
Mrg Barnwell
Trimblestown
Earl of Thomond
William Monfel
County of
Clare
Longford-street
William Dobson
Linnen
Riga
Elphingston’s Delivery and Royal Appointments
In Scotland on Feb 1, Lady Clementina Elphingston gave birth to a son at Lord Elphingston’s seat. William Foulis of Woodhall and James Oliphant of Langton, both officers under the Crown, died. Reports say smugglers freed from Patfly Tolbooth by a mob, and Stoddart the smith was admitted to bail after involvement in Porteous murder.
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Scotlan
Edinburgh
Clementina Elphingston
Earl of Wigtoun
Lord Elphingston
William Foulis of
Woodhall
Sefines
James Oliphant of
Langtown
Tolbooth
Patfly
Smith
Hog
Caldroun
John Porteous
Funeral of Sir John Philipps with solemn procession
Haverford West notes the interment of Sir John Philipps Bart after lying in state at Picton Castle. A vast contingent of gentry, clergy, and officials joined the procession down the town and to St Marys Church. After service, books were distributed and hundreds of black gloves given as tributes, with liberal benefactions to the town recorded. Bristol reports two armed robberies on footpads injuring George Lewis and George Ballard, with Ballard left for dead but later recovering. Canterbury notes clerical appointments and a robbery at the Black Griffin with soldiers implicated in the theft.
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Haverford-West
Sir John Philipps
Picton Castle
St. Mary’s Church
Picton-Castle
England
Arthur Owen
John Barlow
John Wogan
John Edwardes
John Laugharne
Essex Meyricke
George Ballard
Paulbury
Roundham Passage
Capt. Webb
Sir John Smith
Webo
Ballard
Dolman
Norwich
Jones
Barton St. Mary
Norfolk
Thomas Berney
Canterbury
Marriot
Darfield
York
Battwell
Earl
Puruit
Rechester
Londorn Letter Responds to Yorrs and York Parliament Scene
The letter to London Daily Post challenges the author and notes recent York events. Sir John Lister Kaye becomes Lord Mayor amid a formal entertainment attended by magistracy clergy and gentry. He departs for London to attend Parliament, with Samuel Clarke Ely Akerman as deputy. In Hossham Sussex, Capt Ingram is elected to Parliament succeeding his brother, Lord Viscount Iwin.
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Londorn
London Daily Post
Jett
York
John Lister Kaye
Bart
Commons
London
Samuel Clarke
Ely
Akerman
Yetterday
Hossham
Sussex
Capt
Ingram
Viscount Iwin
Great Britain
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London Evening-Post
Yeterday Arriva
France
Holland
Hague
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