Royal Proclamations and Appointments in June Gazette
From the London Gazette June 13 details a sequence of royal actions. Berlin report notes the King’s movement toward Pomerania en route to Marienwerder. War Office announces Col. William Faucitt named Deputy Adjutant General for South Britain. Knighthoods granted to Basil Keith Peter Parker and Horatio Mann. William Ch. Farrel and heirs to bear Skeffington surname and arms. William Wing Fowle named to the Burmarth rectory, Kent, following Richard Smith’s death.
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Britain
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Basil Keith
Peter Parker
Horatio Mann
St. James's
William Ch. Farrel
Skeffington
St. Famers
William Wing Fowle
Burmarth
Kent
Richard Smith
Impertinent Subscriber Questioned by Oxford Society
A London Evening Post letter from Oxford criticizes an ill informed subscriber who attacks the University music concerts. It defends annual subscription terms, notes that performances include Acis and Galatea and other works, praises genuine Italian masters, and defends the society’s charity profits and proper conduct.
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Coronation prep and wartime moves across Europe in May
Reports from Stockholm Warsaw Parsow and Stade detail preparations for a king's coronation, Confederate movements and countermeasures by Austria Russia and Prussia. Pulawski and Zaremba stir rebellion while Royal Danish Queen Carolina Matilda avoids shore. Beyer dies leaving sealed papers.
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Saxony
London notes: knighthood, ships and duels across 18th century news
London dispatches report Sir Robert Murray Keith arriving to be sworn Knight of the Bath with ceremonies attended by the Duke of Gloucester and generals at Blackheath. A Chatham ship sails for Antigua. a yacht with Lord Sandwich arrives saluted by warships. Also told are a murder committed upon Exeter Savory crew, a Scotch factor’s clerk fleeing with his mistress fortune, a duel near Montague House, a fatal fire in Southwark, and highwaymen plundering a Hertfordshire meatman.
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Exeter
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Neice
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Watford
GUILDFORD RACES AND TOWN NOTICES OF THE DAY
A fragment from Guildford races reports the sown plate events for five six or aged horses with weight allowances and results of the first heat. social notices include marriages births and deaths in Warwick Warwickshire Essex Whitechapel and London districts. an accident at Winterton is noted with a man falling into a tub of ale after leaving a pub.
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Emanuel College
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Wickins
Petworth
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Dennis
Holborn
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Long Acre
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Whitechapel
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Newport
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Nightingale
119Th Regiment of Foot
Dukes
Windsor
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Wm. Smeeton
Camberwell
Burnet
Marybone
Matthew Rogers
Homerton
Hogffieth
Mouth-Street
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John Backholtz
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College Hill
Hereford
Winterton
Tanner
Debate over university degree articles and subscription
An irate letter from Cambridge condemns compulsory subscription to religious articles for bachelor and higher degrees. It argues the articles are incomprehensible to students, and priests have corrupted religion for state convenience. The writer warns of continued chains until state action reforms this system.
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