London News Sketches of Royal Affairs and Local Notices
The page reports Providence Island's likely sale to the Crown, obituaries for Mrs Mary Filmer and other notable deaths, parliamentary motions on liquor crimes, Duke of Newcastle’s news, Vaughan’s Cadiz captivity, Prince of Wales in the Lords, and other court and clerical appointments. It also notes a General Court of the South Sea Company and various legal notices, cremations, and ship incidents.
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Providence
West Indies
East Sutton
Kent
Mary Filmer
Sir Edward Filmer
Dr. Wallis
York
Htas
Middlesex
Westminster
Duke of Newcastle
Keene
Vaughan
Cadiz
House of Com
Earl of Bristol
House of Lords
South-Sea Company
Spain
Mr. Keene
Thomas Geraldine
Princess of Wales
Norfolk House
Rome
Thomas Dereham
Dereham Abbey
Norfolk
Cosmo III
Tuscany
Richard Dereham
Frances Villiers
Robert Lord Viscount
Purbeck
St. Thomas
Chevalier de St. George
Cardinal Corfini
Acciaioli
College de Propaganda Fide
Papal Consistory Names New Cardinals in Rome
The Paris Alamain reports on March 7 that the Pope convened a consistory and created three cardinals, naming the Archbishop of Embrun and the Archbishop of Milan among them, while the third remains unidentified. Rival preparations for aristocratic weddings in France continue as plans for the eldest Mesdames’ marriage by proxy unfold.
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Rome
Embrun
Milan
Mesdames
France
Suspected burglary under strong guard at Bagster
From Exon February 28 a man was committed to the High Gaol of Devon on suspicion of breaking into the dwelling of Thomas Tothill, Esquire at Bagster during divine service and stealing over 1000 in money. On Friday a sloop with corn was found adrift near Justice Duke's at Overton, empty of people, with two cutlasses and blood drops on deck.
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Dents
England
Elizabeth
Simeon Stuart
Hartley
Hampshire
Bart
Thomas Dereham
Cook’s Court Cary-street
Job Hanmer
Lincoln’s Inn
Hon
Lingling
Underwood
White Lion
Whitechapel
Rich
Daniel James
Thomas Burton
Tuerton
Diocese of
York
William Whitworth
Bugden
Huntingdon
Lincoln
Christopher Twynfire
Earl of Lauderdale
Stypull
Steeple
Twyneham
Dorset
Bristol
Paxwell
Theald
John Gay
Countess of
Granville
Wilfhamsted
Bedford
Hawnes
Swale
Wighill
Lancaster
Hopkins
Commissioners of Excise
Smith
George Tarry
Middlesex
Old Bedlam
Bishopsgate-street
Guildhall
Lee
Ris
Chelmsford
Francis
Thomas Ley
Bantry
Naples
Kinmaire
Ireland
Francis Seaman
Yarmouth
Melazzo
Sicily
Exon
Devon
Thomas Tothill
Bagster
Justice Duke
Overton
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