Sweden Faces Court Battle Over Chancery Post
Deliberations in the Secret Committee seek a new President of the Chancery after Count Teffin’s bid. The Ecclesiastical and Nobles orders weigh whether the minister must be deposed for foreign pressures or proven misconduct, while the Peasants demand clear proof before any removal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chancery
Count Gyllenbourg
Count de Teffin
Ecclesiastick Order
Baron Korff
College of Nobles
Teflin
Count Teffin
Sweden
Germany
London News and War Preparations Show London Grows
The piece rails at London costs for servants and provisions while noting dockyard talk of war taxes and a new light tax on households. It records deaths, marriages, and appointments, including officers bound for Flanders and a 7600 man camp near Fort Augustus, with reports of naval posts and hospital governors. It cites letters from Hamburg and Holland about troop movements and the expected March mobilization of allied forces plus Gen Hulke to command Scottish forces.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Giles Mills
Paternoster Row
Farringdon
Duke of
Hulke
Scotland
Fort Augustus
York Election Chooses Dobson Barnard and Esrick Lord Mayor
The Guild hall election chose Mr. Alderman Dobson who served as Lord Mayor in 1729, Mr. Alderman Barnard who served in 1735, and Mr. Alderman Escricke who served in 1739. Henry Yarburgh of Heflington, Esq. died last week, and Hesketh Yarburgh inherits his estate. In Canterbury, Rev Culpeper Savage's dispensation to hold Eastry and Stone living voids Town Sutton with East Sutton vicarage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Port Bridge
Portsmouth
Admiralty
Matthew Wallen
Gibraltar
Jamaica
Campbell
Deceas
South-Sea Company
Threadneedle-Street
Earl of Lichfield
William Courtenay
Crawley
Mr. Berkeley
Bridewell
Bethlem
Daniel Lambert
James Jackson
East Indies
Croydon
Surrey
Bridgman
Leicester
Franks
Richard Lever
Alderman Levert
William Franks
Old Fish Street
Crousley Park
Henley
Francis Heywood
William Heywood
Shug-Lane Charing-Cross
Mary Bush
Royal
Royal Exchange
Mr. Willoughby
Leicester Fields
Lady Votiers
Col. Votiers
Grace
Flanders
Pafchall
Brooks Wharf
Queenhithe
St. Margaret’s Westminster
Sir James Grant
Grant
Bart
Elgin
Cullen, Baniff, &c
Scotland
Samuel Shuckford
Alhallows
London
Canterbury
Warnham
Sussex
Chichester
Hambourg
Denmark
Breda
Holland
N.S
Country News
York
Guildhall
Alderman Dobson
Alderman Barnard
Alderman Escricke
Henry Yarburgh
Heflington
Hesketh Yarburgh
Culpeper Savage
Eastry and
Stone
Town Sutton
East Sutton
Dean and Chapter of
Rochester
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Stockholm
Maestricht
LON Odon
Movern Sea Fare
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