Petition to ban Jesuits from selling provisions in stores
In Rome Det.16 Ore RAL Coies.in requests the New Congregation to forbid Jesuits from trading in stores of wine oil chocolate and other provisions claiming they harm petitioners. Leghorn edict grants privileges to newcomers settling in a new city suburb. Paris and Amsterdam reports count burials christenings marriages and related data for last year.
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Rome
Leghorn
Paris
Amsterdam
Texel
Extraordinary Radish Grows In Norfolk Garden
A Norfolk plant grows to a three foot eleven inch leaf spread, a root two foot six, girth twenty inches at the top and ten at the bottom, weighing sixteen pounds four ounces. Inglethorp works by William Davy. Concurrently, Stephen Moore is jailed on suspicion of murdering Mary Moore in St Stephen's. Also noted is the death of Rev Bartin Gutteridge at Thorpe Malfor.
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Country News
Norwich
Fan
Roger North
Rougham
Norfolk
William Davy
Inglethorp
Noralk
Stephen Moore
St. Stephen’s
Ambrose Gedge
His
Mary Moore
Northampton
Instane
Thorpe Malfor
Bartin Gutteridge
Port News Winds Shift for Jamaica and Antigua
Deal, Jan 13 Down the Valetta Nath Nancy Finningley and Pelling Somerfell for Jamaica the Mary Ogilvie for Antigua the Diamond Harrison Transport the Stephen and Francis Forrest for Plymouth Butter for Barbadoes remain with four Men of War East India ships and outward-bound. Wind 5 W. Jan 14 Robert Charles Groves Jamaica Fortitude Hopewell Employment Transports remain in the Downs with the eleven East India Ships and outward-bound as last. Wind 5S W blows hard.
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Port News
Deal
Jan
Valetta
Nath
Nancy
Finningley
Pelling
Somerfell
Jamaica
Mary
Ogilvie
Antigua
Diamond
Harrison
Stephen and Francis
Forrest
Plymouth
Butter
Barbadoes
W. Deal
Fan
Augustus Cafar
Burnell
Albany
Faulkland
Elizabeth
Richie
Robert
Charles
Groves
Fortitude
Parkin
Hopewell
Coulfyn
Fetherton
Downs
Lisbon treason plot alleged with noblemen facing execution
A Lisbon Mail report claims three Portuguese noblemen were seized for treasonous acts with one to be executed soon and two in danger. About three hundred people of note are said involved, with hints the plot may have roots in Spain and Jesuit involvement. The Princess of Orange is seen publicly but ill with dropsy. Extras from Dunkirk note rapid city growth and port improvements. Rouen reports fevers. a French letter alleges Fort duquesne abandonment and Canadian harvest shortfalls. An English dragoon draft and a North American expedition are mentioned, with Wolfe to act as Major General. The Tiger sails from Aristol to the West Indies.
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London
Lisbon
Laft
Spain
Princess of Orange
Dunkirk
Tafte
Netherlands
Rouen
Quebec
France
Fort du Quesne
Otober
Frontenac
Canada
Old France
England
Germany
North America
Col
Wolfe
Cal. Murray
Amherst
Tiger
Thomas
Aristol
West Indies
Ittelf
Fafk
Monty
Great Council
Leas
Enward Montacu
Bath
House of Commons
Patrick
J. C. Pilkinton
Blackwall
Portmouth
Spithead
Dorsetshire
Dennis
Admiral Holmes
Plymouth
Betsey
Murphy
St. Christophers
Corke
Neath
Bristol Channel
Isaac Lundburg
Nykoping
Stockholm
St. Ubes
St. Clement’s Church
Temperance Heath
Redlion Street
Clerkenwell
Alex. Stephenson
Waterman
Elephant-Stairs
Execution Dock
Hanover-Hole
Barry
Pirates in sight as Duke William detains captains
A royal cutter capturing pirates at Tower Wharf is reported to hold five captains and several officers awaiting Admiralty inquiry. Other dispatches note the Seaford arrival at Londonderry, a Jamaica voyage by the William, David Wheeler Master stranded near Liverpool, and cargo losses.
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Moéts
Ipjo Sallee
Ince
Barbadoes
Aletds
Rouen
Hamburg
Funk
William
David Whelen
Jamaica
Bristol
Crosbie Point
Liverpool
North Channel
Seaford
Miller
Londonderry
Philadelphia
Jones, Black
Boston
Newfoundland
His Majesty
Tower Wharf
Admiralty
Eyre Coote
Adlercron’s
East Indies
Sleech
Exchequer
John
Audrey Staples
Daffy
New Prison Walk
Clerkenwell-Green
Fulham
Peter Lumsden
King’s Arms
Pace
Enfield
Reflections on funding and public credit in 1758
An extended political treatise defends raising funds for debt in wartime, arguing necessity over popular doubt. It counters objections about feasibility and danger, urges leveraging merchant capital, and cites parliamentary guidance as ultimate arbiter before presenting a poem of praise to Sir Edward Montagu.
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