Armies and Adjutants Move Across Italy and England
From Vienna to London the week brings updates on Austrian and Spanish negotiations, Easter in Presbourg, and royal appointments. Reports note Montemar warning Imperial generals near Perugia, Maria Theresa renouncing succession for male heirs, Sa nction adherence, and bride preparations. Court appointments include Commyns, Strange, and Wilson, with notices of deaths, marriages, and pardons, plus a Mass of baroque intrigue in governance and ecclesiastical circles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hursday
Duke de Montemar
Pistoia
Marquess de la Mina
Marquess de Bay
d’Aranda
Spain
Castile
Fiorentello
Perugia
Presbourg
Kingdom of
Hungary
Consecration of Lord Bishop of Offory at Dublin Church
Ireland report notes the consecration of Rev Dr Este as Lord Bishop of Offory at St Warborough's in Dublin with archbishop and neighboring bishops present. Dispatches say soldiers were discharged from Foot quarters and officers moved to regiments. A wedding linked Thomas Mahon and Jane Crosbie. Two Irish ships carrying corn and butter were wrecked near Wicklow Head and Skerries with all hands lost.
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Ireland
Dublin
Este
Offory
St. Warborough’s
Kildare
Ferns
Thomas Mahon
Strock’s
Roffcommon
Jane Crosbie
Sirorris Crosbie
Wicklow Head
Skerries
Call of Serjeants at Westminster Names Fortescue and Toller
At Westminster a private Call of Serjeants elevated William Fortescue and John Toller of Lincoln's Inn to the Caif. Fortescue becomes Baron of the Exchequer succeeding Baron Commyns, who is made a Justice of the Court of Common Pleas. A formal entertainment followed at Lincoln's Inn with high officials and dignitaries present.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baron Commyns
Court of Exchequer
Court of Common-Pleas
John Strange
Inner Temple
Mountford
Saxe-Gotha
Prince‘of Wales
Lambeth
Westminster
House of Commons
Alermen
Edward Stanley
Bart
Earl of Derby
Cross-Hall
Lancashire
Stanley
Ormskirk
Duke of
Thomas Gibson
St. Margaret’s Westminster
Privy Seal
Court of Requests
John Sergeant
Court of King’s Bench
Thomas Lambe
Baffishaw Ward
Samuel Fludger
James Reynolds
Wilson
Sodor and Man
St. Vedaft Foster-lane
Maddox
St. Asaph
Barton
Winchester
St. Paul's
Pelling
Greene
Hodges Robert Westley
Lavington
Gibson
Emerson
Tho. Baker
Westley Hall
William Deyman
Fran. Boynton, Bart
John Blackall
Duke of Cleveland
Southampton
Thomas Seaman
Laft
The
Strand
Hemett
Bucknal
London
Southwark
Elizabeth Lady Irwin
Gerrard Irwin
Wm. Broughton
Bernard Lintott
Horsham
Sussex
Henry Lintott
William Fortescue
John Toller
Lincoln’s Inn, Elys
Exchequer
Court of Common Pleas
Lincoln's Inn
Devonshire
Grafton
W Newcastle
Earl of Wilmington
Lord Hagsington
Horatio Walpole
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London Evening
Pofti
Ng Dees
Tugspday
France
Holland
Florence
Terr
St. Dunstan’s
Court of Assilants of Stationers Company
Sam
Buckley
Ely
Tho. Ward
James Roberts
Arthur Betterworth
James Round
John Pemberton
John Bringhurst
Ely Trinity
Harwood
Friday Street
Edward Hopkins
Kingston
Dorsetshire
James Christmass
George Pitt
Stratfield
Sherville Castle
Hampshire
William Billingham
Mitcham
Surrey
Woodroffe
Edward Pontifex
Downley
West Wycombe
Buckinghamshire
Cambridge
Senate
Grover
Trinity College
Garnett
Sidney College
Newgate
Publicie
Moors-yard
St. Martin’s-lane
Hereford
William Phillips
Newton
Nottingham
William Burnell
Wickborne
G. Stafford
Ralph Addérley
Henry Limot
Bologna
Meath
Holinst
Bouthos
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