Debating European Affairs and Military Movements
An 18th century letter roundup reports Haydamack raids on Polish frontiers, Austrian rumors of a 40,000 strong army to Bohterhia, and Paris news on the king’s plan for parliamentary resignations. It covers English public finance fears, famine debates, and magistrates amid political shifts, plus ship news from Virginia to Plymouth. It mentions a St James marriage and a Newcastle town reception for Pitt and Legge.
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Ponnania
Poland
M. de Mozzulski
Human
Dantzick
M. Nicholas
Czaikr
Gren
Holy Empire
Hungary
Ratifoon
Fune
Bohterhia
Paris
Faue
Coust
Compeigne
England
Ae Ewe Se
Bates
Alan
Laft
St. James’s Church
Morland
Leicester Fields
Jenny
Lenten
Isaac Lacam
Pallmall
Marriages and disasters in news from Durham and beyond
News notes report the marriage of Peter Bowlby to Miss Ruffel at Durham, and a fatal coal pit accident near Ravensworth where a gut of foul air suffocated quenching fires at the pit mouth. Somerset and Exeter gaol matters include a death sentence for forging a promissory note and two escapes, one fatal in Devon. Birmingham reports an eight-prisoner breakout from Stafford Gaol with a thick wall and a reward posted. A needle mill accident near Samborne left a young man with a fractured skull and death four hours later.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Country News
Newsaftle
Durham
Peter Bowlby
Miss Ruffel
Col. Ruffel
Hurworth
Ravensworth
Sherborne
Exeter
Stafford
Samborne
Alcester
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Tugspay
Tauaspar
Edinburgh
Donald
Greenock
Virginia
Bord London
Cape Cantyre
Snow
Britannia
Bell
Horatio Hint
Earth
Great Britain
de Gloucester
Bristal
William, Pitt
Henry Bilton Legge
Common Council
Newcastle Upon Tyne
Legge
Newcastle
Henry Wotton
Christendom
House of Austria
Hapfsburgh
Switzerland
Indies
Kingdom of
Naples
Milan
Germany
Burgundy
Portugal
Italy
France
Maximilian
Charles the Vth
Spain
Portsmouth
Buckingham
Downs
Dunkirk
Plymouth Sound
India
Comte de Gramont
Bayonne
Georgia