Court life and Baltic news from the era
An old newspaper fragment reports a royal court gathering with gifts to a Groom-Porter, a Norfolk House ball, and new committees for Britain Spain talks. It covers deaths and marriages in London society, various ship losses, stump speeches, and a note on a hospital charter for foundling children. It also details corn prices, a wagon accident near Acton, and clerical appointments at Guernsey. It expands into colonial news from Jamaica and Carolina, and then reports on European diplomacy, finances, and ambassadorial affairs in Madrid, Paris, Amsterdam, and The Hague.
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Duke
Caroline Sackville
Amelia
Norfolk House
Great Britain
Spain
Anne Conolly
William Conolly
Aldborough
Suffolk
Earl of Strafford
Jamaica
Matthew Concanen
Island
Miss Needham
Mr. Needham
Robert Needham
Old Sarum
Wilts
Charles-Town
South Carolina
William Mackenzie
Ely
Meas Brentwood
Essex
Walton
Lord Petre
Moreton
Surrey
King
Perkins
Woolf- Pack
Houndsditch
Jaft
Bath
Francis Whitworth
Kent
Serle-street
Lincoln’s Inn
Blythman
Princes-street
edford-Row
John Symonds
West Ham
St. John’s Chapel
St. John’s Square
Noyes
Cheapside
Needham
Kensington Square
Burnaby
John Burnaby
Sir Edward Wood
Charles II
Sweden
Mr. Batt
West Smithfield
La&e
Basinghalltreet
Charles Pinfold
South Sea House
Chelsea
Capt
Corbet
Sir Robert Rich
Regiment of Dragoons
Duke of Portland
Bulftrade
Acton
le Mezurier
Guernsey
John Bonamy
Buchanan
Henry Penrice
High Court of Admiralty
James Buchanan
Bridewell
Mary Roots
Justices of the Peace
Westminster
Henry Hill
Half- Moon-Street
Covent-Garden
Charles Harris
Newate
Alderman Barber
Richard Albert
Rochester
Medway
Chatham
Magdalen
Crawford
Londonderry
Venice
Dover
Gibraltar
Bevin
London
Seville
Dunkirk
Holland
Ruremond
Dendermonde
Madrid
M. Vander Meer
Vienna
the Two Sicilies
House of Medicis
Parma
Placentia
Lorrain
Hague
M. Vandee Meer
France
Republick
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Utrecht
N.S
Earl of Waldgrave
Paris
Corsica
Amsterdam