The Hague Letters on Court Affairs and Escaped Prisoners
Excerpts describe Bonn court intrigues over the Elector’s Munich journey, Zealand assembly debates on a free port and a five percent tax on employments, and Ministers considered for a royal preceptor. Also recounted is a prison break led by Grindley and Wyatt with a failed escape and murder plot.
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Bonn
Munich
France
Hague
Fan
Council of State
Zealand
States of Holland
Amsterdam
States General
Prince Stadtholder
van Keffel
Mannerkemplen
Rawerts
Shipping News From The Atlantic Shores
Notices from Antigua New York and Georgia report a sloop Hicks master from Maryland left on the Ship's Head rock near Plantation Harbour. The Sally Laws from South Carolina arrived after a voyage of thirteen days, with word of the Ruby Edwards ship ashore near Florida on November 2. Indians boarded them, captain and crew escaped in a long boat, and fourteen American vessels were in company near Cuba. fear of a shared fate. A schooner cast ashore near Cape Ann with missing men, believed to be one bound for this place from Piscataqua two weeks earlier.
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St. Fohn’s
Antigua
Hicks
Maryland
New-York
Laws
South Carolina
Oveo
Aten
Ruby
Edwards
Matter
Jamaica
Philadelphia
Florida
Savanah Inlet
Georgia
Charles Town
Cuba
Beston
Cape Ann
Piscataqua
Thomas Walden
Kent
Temple-Bar
Laft
Poplar
Robert Walcut
Isleworth
Valette
France
Boston
New England
Samuel Wellard
Newcastle
Vanhault
Sunderland
William Maude
Shields
Isabel Redhead
Grimshaw
Whitby
Sunders
South Shields
Maude Fet
Tyne
Newgate
Richard Adams
Walliam Clark
William Cross
Robert Hall
Eagle Street
St. James's
Edward Price
William Morris
John Bourk
Ann Fox
John Briant
Joseph Hall
Willam Baldwin
Thomas Mott
Rule Sykes
Timothy Murphy
William Lee
Elizabeth Waters
Patrick Nugent
Picard
Lee
Mugent
Grindall
London Hospital
Lampstead
Fancrase Charen
Theobald Taafl
Coventry
Nouseus Rhei
Taaff
Bill
Sherwood
Lord Broadalbin
Paddington
Tyburn Turnpike
Polly Brig
Capt. Williams
Curaccoa
Handley Common assault and broadside escape notes
In Dorsetshire two farmers Mr Morgan and Mr Randall were attacked by three footpads on Handley Common after leaving Shaftesbury Market. Randall was robbed of five shillings. Morgan was struck by a pistol blow but escaped serious harm. The report also covers prison escapes at Oxford Castle, various public notices, and early news from London and the colonies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Country News
Sherborne
Mr. Morgan
Mr. Randall
Handley
Dorsetshire
Shaftesbury Market
Handley Common
Randall
Morgin
Oxford
William Grindley
Nettlebed
Hertford
Grindley
Wyatt
Grindey
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the Hague
London
Court of Chancery
Josesh Adkins
Tring
Hertfordshire
Mathew Burton
Westminster Hall
John James
Old Bond
Miss Downs
Mount-street
William Winder
Trinity College
Mer
Bethel
Baron Chive
Board of Admiralty
Pembroke
Hodgson
Hugh Deloraine
Welch Luffleers
Thomas
The
India Company
James Fowles
Andrew Armsrong
Edward Inglis
John Ray
Charles Palmer
William Burnet
Charles People
James Stonehouse
Clapham
Surry
Winchester
Richard Atkins
Goodwin
Emanuel Langford
Aronsby
Lincoln
Charles Soan
L.L.B
Haruip
Dioncese
Canterbury
St. James
Isle of Grean
Shoreham
Thomas Best
City of Canterbury
Mr. Whitefield
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