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Political and Public Life Echoes From A Distant Session
News spread of Urquhart as candidate for Fortrose Inverness and Nairn replacing Duncan Forbes. A London society meeting elected Benjamin Hoare Ely as President. Excise trial of a cyder-maker near the Three Cranes concluded with a guilty verdict. Several marriages and noble appointments are noted, and European diplomacy and naval affairs from Paris, Stockholm, and the Hague are summarized with cargos, trade, and treaties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Urquhart
Fortrose
Inverness
Nairn
Duncan Forbes
Scotland
Society of Treasurers
Charity Schools
London
Westminster
Benjamin Hoare
Ely
Commissioners of Excise
Fog’s
Kelly
Tuscany
Henry Bromley
Knights of the Shire
Cambridge
Great Britain
Baron Bromley
Horseheath
Palmer
Wentworth Odiam
House of Commons
Thomas Spence
House of Lords
Jocelyn Pickard
Lincoln’s Inn
Robert Jocelyn
Sambrooke
Jeremy Sambrooke
Long
Robert Long
Wootton Buffet
Earl Tilney
Canterbury
Dean Lynch
Chatham
Portsmouth
Plymouth
Admiralty
Nottingham
Dragon
Barnett
Hill
Sally
Barbadoes
Lane Rate
Canary Islands
Newcastle Upon Tyne
Wilfred Lawson
Cockermouth