Election News and Trade Talks From London 1738
The London Evening Post reports Brigadier Cope elected MP for Orford in place of the late Lewis Barlow. Parliament set to debate wool and iron manufactories. Jamaica treasurer Hall dies. copper ore findings at Scarborough. royal attendance at Bath for the Prince and Princess of Wales. 10,000 seamen granted for the year. Various marriages, deaths, and local incidents accompany the political notices. A treaty of marriage and a new writ for Yarmouth are mentioned along with a series of fires and an exploding powder-mill at Dartford.
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London
Brigadier Cope
Orford
Suffolk
Lewis Barlow
Deceas
Great Britain
Great
Britain
Jamaica
Thomas Hall
Scarborough
Prince and
Printess of
Wales
Bath
Cambis
France
Hanover Square
Bank of England
Lincoln
Saville Cutt
Sir Richard Cutt, Bart
Lincolnshire
Duke of Manchester
Stamford
Yorke
Jait
Fenchurch Street
Richard Birch
York Buildings Company
Frances Harpur
Duke of Rutland
John Harpur
Bart
Miss Sidney
Earl of Leicester
Gray’s
Ian Chapel
William Underwood
Enfield
Coast of Common-Pleas
Scot
Yarmouth
Willitt Townshend
Dartford
Kent
Erson
Privy Garden
Whitehall
Lady de la War
John Lord de la War
Horse Guards
Virginia
Snd
John Freeman
City of London
Col. Diggs
Chilham Castle
Jobs Smith
Aldborough
John Say
John Pigh
Mifmeet-Haven
Emperor's Edict and Army Movements Across Hereditary Lands
Vienna reports the Emperor's general poll tax and troop mobilizations. Officers must join regiments by mid March for a late month march toward Elprade. The Great Duke of Tuscany and other generals head to the front in early April, with Spain expected to join the treaty efforts. Leutrum dies at 58, 3000 Clementines seek protection, and Major-General Doxat’s fate is softened to retirement. A high sheriff candidate is shot dead amid a coroner’s inquest of accidental death. Reading and Pangborn robberies leave a man near death after a brutal assault. Edward Chapman of Pangborn is jailed on charges connected to the Readings order.
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Council of War
Elprade
Tuscany
Count Seckendorff
Servia
Belgrade
Doxat
Don Carlos
the Two Sicilies
Spain
Rorni
Don Philip
Maria Anna Sophia
Poland
Elecor
Saxony
Transilvania
Leutrum
Reading
Giles Blagrave
Purley
Pangborn
Edward Chapman
Potenger
Scots Church Matters and Local Appointments
Edinburgh January 23 169? At a university meeting the degree of Doctor of Divinity was granted to Rev Mr Symson prebendary of Lincoln and chaplain to James Duke of Montrose a diploma ordered in ample form Edinburgh January 26 Magistrates and Council appointed Mr Ninian Cunningham in the Canongate to fill a vacancy caused by Mr Swinton resigning The burning of Blackford Church Perthshire blamed on negligence as the school kept in the church
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Scotland
Edinburgh
Matthias Symson
Lincoln
James Duke of Montrose
Ninian Cunningham
Swinton
Blackford
Perthshire
Derby News Loss Highlights Brown Family Tragedy
A melancholy accident occurred at Stretton in this county. Mr. Brown, only son of William Brown of Derby, a gentleman of the parish, was the sole survivor among a group involved in the incident. Further details remain sparse as the event is reported from a few days ago.
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Country News
Derby
Stretton
Brown
William Brown
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