Troop Movements and Naval Advances in Italian and Low Countries Campaigns
Dispatches from Florence and Basel report Prince Lobkowicz’s Army crossing toward Naples with heavy cannon and Hungarian and Lucanian troops to follow. Deser tions rise. Austrian garrisons move from Lombardy to Bologna and Parma as British and Dutch forces fortify bridges on the Schelde. Reports from Namur and Namur to the Hague note political divides in the Dutch Republic over war aims and leadership, plus privateers and French actions around Ypres and Menin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lobkowicz
Monte Rotondo
Lobkowitz
Lombardy
Naples
Agnani
Frosinone
d’Atrisco
Val Montone
Zagarola
M. Castropignano
M. de Gages
Retir
Count Colobrano
Arsest
Bolog Na
Mirandola
Bologna
Parma
Berleghem
Caslle
Oudenarde
Afche
Colusmné
Aleft
Borebeek
Erpe
Ninove
Borfbeek
Marie Lathem
Velfeck
Swallne
Grammont
Saurt
Schelde
Gavre
Ghent
Neder-Ename
Gunett
Harlbeck
Ypres
Menin
Prince of Hesse
Count de Saxe
Fort Enocque
Flamertinguen
Capuchins
Courtray
Caufey
Lis
Prebend of Kilmainmore vacated in Mayo Diocese
Numerous brief items note appointments and deaths. Rev John Crampton receives the Prebend of Kilmainmore for Kilmainmore Kilmain Regmoorgragh and Kilmo lara parishes in Mayo. A Goldsmith is convicted of silver buckle fraud at the King's Bench. Society meetings add new members and plan a regional survey of Dublin Meath and Westmeath. Obituaries praise Edward Bond of Bondvil and describe his funeral gift and epitaph.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ireland
Dublin
Funez
John Crampton
St. Andrew
Tuam
Kilmainmore
Kilmain Regmoorgragh
Kilmolara
King’s Bench
Funes
Physico-Historical Society
Earl of Kildare
Earl of Ross
Meath
Westmeath
Limerick
Vincent
Linnen
Edward Bond
Bondvil
Armagh
Lme
Three Gentlemen and a Boy Await Admiralty Condemnation
In Edinburch on June 5 report says three gentlemen and a boy, passengers on the St. Hercufe the French prize lately brought into Clyde, have arrived as prisoners at the Castle. They, with the captain and officers, are expected hourly as witnesses before the High Court of Admiralty to be held today for condemnation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Namur
Fer le Grand
Maubeuge
Dauphin Etranger
Braigne
Hinffars
la Capelle
Valenciennes
Sambre
la Buffiere
the Hague
Utrecht
Europe
Friesland
Prince of Orange
Hungary
France
Republick
Jornell
Portsmouth
London
Tutt
George, Miller
Carolina
Hampton-Court
Chester
Lizard
Prince Frederick
Restoration
Edward Randolph
Virginia
S. W
Scilly
Randolph
Exon
Fune
Bar
Scotland
Edinburch
St. Hercufe
Clyde
High Court of Admiralty
Surprising Public Light Seen Over Bristol City Night
Reports from Bristol describe a vast bright body seen at midnight in the western sky, resembling a comet but larger with a bright broad tail. A French privateer of sixty plus men was captured by the Adventure privateer under Captain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bristol
Royal accession rites and wartime mobilizations in London
The article recalls the accession of a new king and public celebrations in London and Westminster. It notes bells, park gun salutes, bonfires, and demolitions of joy. It details Land Tax instructions, troop and gun movement to Flanders, naval reassignments, and a large tea seizure at Hertford.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kensington
London
Westminster
Allery
Woolwich
Gravesend
Flanders
Batrell
Rolt
Efy
Edmund Paynton Rolt
Chippenham
Wilts
Lords of the Admiralty
Arnold Cooper
Michael Ellison
Greenwich
Newington
Surrey
Amey Frith
Dr. Frith
Canterbury
Hampton Court
Ipswich
Roger Peart
Laft
Dublin
Thomas Walker
Macheath
Camberwell
Wilks
Katherine Wheel Yard
St. James’s
William Stuart
Duke of Dorset
Robert Purnell
Gracechurch Street
Prescott
Katherine-Hall
Cambridge
Norwich
Great Yarmouth
Norfolk
Macro
Deceas
Samuel ‘Hicks
Washingworth
County of
Bedford
Diocese of
Lincoln
Hertford
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London Evening-Post
Florence
Country News
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