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Publick Peace Commissions and Royal Visits in 18th Century Southampton
A long dispatch notes two new Commissions of Peace for the County of Southampton. His Royal Highness the Princess of Orange received public visits on Friday the 7th Tuttant after her lying-in. Reports on elections for Vestry Clerk at West Ham near Stratford in Essex, trials at the Old Bailey with transportation sentences, and various diplomatic cables from The Hague detailing Spain Portugal peace, Prussia, Austria, and Dutch ambitions. Private letters mention Keene in Madrid uncovering intelligence about Spanish intrigues, and a mass of naval stores movements and stock market data closes the item.
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Southampton
Princess of Orange
Robert Trevor
Queen’s College
Oxford
Clarke
Deceas
Willian Bromley
Canbury House
Samuel Humphreys
Ilington
Pullin
St. George
Hanover-Square
Princess-street
West Ham
Stratford
Essex
William Dilke
John Woodward
Justice Pratt
Dilke
Woodward
Holland
James Ryan
Hugh Mc‘ Mahon
Gerrard Fitzgerald
James Faulkner
Gerrard Farrill
James North
Francis Smith
Edward Robinson
Charles Baughs
John Warwick
John Wells
Royal Exchange
Fetter-Lane End
Fleet-treet
Newgate
Hague
Iris
Keene
Madrid
Spain
Marquis de Vaugrenan
Great Britain
M. Chauvelin
France
Cardinal Fleury
The
Portugal
M. Ganfinot
States General
Elector Palatine
Juliers
Bergues
Prussia
M. Loutfcius
M. de Linden
East Friesland
Republick
Vienna
Paris
Lorrain
Barron
M. Patinho
Europe
Cologn
Bavaria
Palatine
Sultzbach
Poland
Stanislaus
Berlin
Naples
Sardinia
Denmark
Hesse-Casfel
Wirtemberg
Hambourg
Dresden
Augustus
Count de Belle-Hie
Triers
Marquess de Rhis
Marquess de la Mina
Malaga
Duke de Montemar
Cardinal de Fleury
Marseilles
Toulon
Barcelona