Journey to Lorraine and European Movements in 1700s
News notes European royalty plans travel to Lorretto and Italy with Infants and royal interviews. Guards attend Don Philip's journey while Bavarian troops march to deter Hussar incursions. Florence reports a Tuscany jewel dispute and a Hanover general dies. Paris notes troop augmentations and a flurry of couriers from Bohemia Spain and beyond.
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Lorretto
Don Philip
Madrid
Italy
France
Versailles
Augbourg
Munich
Landshut
Straubingen
Bavaria
Hussars
Paris
Europé
Marshal de‘ Bellisle
Bohemia
Spain
Explosion on Letter of Marque Ship Kills Two Ladies
Distressed report from London details a ship named Thomas and Mary, bound for Barbadoes, blown up with 13 dead including Mrs Thomson and Mrs Ely and their two children. Survivors endured five days adrift before rescue by the Little Isaac. Also notes arrests, political maneuvers, and various naval affairs from Jamaica to York, with multiple official appointments and deaths cited.
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Justice Perkins
Thomas and Mary
Barlow
Barbadoes
Thomson
Ely
Isaac
Bristol
Miller
Purlock
Pear Minehead
Tvhat
Admiralty
Nostra Signiora del Carmen
Gallicia
West Indies
Vernon
Newcastle
Portmouth
Jamaica
Cumberland
Liscom
Brasil
Nathaniel Haytick
Loddington
Northampton
Peterborough
Daniel Griffins
Leominster
Liminster
Thomas Howard
Lord Howard
Francis Earl of Effingham
John Self
Oflice
Searcher
London
William-Foulis
Deceas
Fast-India House
Christopher Mold
Philadephia
Alexander Henry Keith
Delawar
William Keith
New-England
Craigs Court
Charing-Cross
Griffith Lorr
Wales
Ince
Newington
Middlesex
Bridget" Hartop
Folin Hartop
John Hartop
Parks Place
St. James’s
Olympia Dury
Col. Dury
Grennadiers
Cirencester
Gloucestershires
Johan Evans
Heath
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Naples
Fan
Florence
N. S
Tuscany
Danter
Prince de Craon
Leghorn
Hanover
M. Melvil
Zell Cherath
N.S
Milan
Plf
Sardinia
Mantua
Parma
Placentia
Modena
Bologne
Christchurch
Duncomb
Sir Thomas
Robinson, Bart
Excise
Robert Byng
James ‘Butlér
Elysis
Bart-Grintteats
Sussex
York
Turnes
Fox
Everal
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