Shipping arrivals and departures at Plymouth and Dover
March 28 wind from east and north brought several ships to Plymouth including Albion Richardson from New York Nancy Young from Charles Town Pitt Black from Belfast Draper Murry from Dublin New Judith Connery from Newry General Paeli M Carty from Cork. At Cowes Boone Brass from South Carolina and at Dover Hannah Ackworth from Boston and John Galley Darby from Carthagena.
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Deal
Lord North
Deptford
Dover
Hannah, Ackworth
Boston
John Galley
Darby
Carthagena
European dispatches report Russian troop passage request
Vienna reports Prince Gallitzin, the Russian minister, has demanded a passage through Hungary for a large force. Marseilles notes eight ships fitting for Corsica to transport the Provence regiment to Savoy for the future Countess of Provence. Frontiers of Poland describe Confederate control of Cracow area and Marshal Sawa entering Lithuania amid heavy levies and depredations.
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Vienna
Gallitzin
Russia
Hungary
Marseills
Corsica
Provence
Savoy
Holland
Poland
Palatinate of Cracow
Caffumir
Cee
Sawa
Lithuania
Ing
Woman Found Hanged After Herefordshire Wedding
A young woman, daughter of a wealthy farmer near Ross Herefordshire, wed a Sidney inn-keeper on a Sunday fortnight ago. The groom left her with her parents, then returned Thursday to fetch her and she was found hanging at her father’s house.
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Country News
Bristol
Ross
Herefordshire
Sidney 3
London Commons Debates Over Sheriffs and Citadel Troops
London reports detail C Fox accusing sheriffs of failing to disperse crowds, with the Commons voting to read the day’s order after debate. Other notes describe Lord Mayor’s Tower imprisonment, council thanks to loyal sheriffs, ambassador recalls, and public unrest linked to King George III and ministerial influence during Good Friday observations.
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London
Fox
Elys
House of Commons
Coe Acrepondent
House of Peers
Cheap
Farringdon
Oliver
Trecothick
Transports, assaults, and social notices from London
The report lists a series of incidents and notices: Thomas Meekins jailed for returning from transportation before term, a housekeeper jailed for a rape on a girl under seven, marriages and social moves involving Mr. Trass and Miss Siddall, and various deaths and personal notices in Bucks and Bedfordshire. It also mentions Reverend John Smith a priest in ordinary at the Chapel Royal, and advertises a spring herb beverage sold at the London Coffee-house in Lugat Street with Rowley’s products.
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George
Margaret
Sanderland
Kondons
Coat of Calais
Thomas Meekins
Newgate
Poultry Compter
Guildhall
Ormond-street
Sainsbury
Charter House
Perkins
John Perkins
Lime-street
Colman
George Colman
Greatigeen-Brect
Lincoln’s Inn Fields
John Smith
Chapel Royal
Swedestea
China
Happy Country
London
Rare Italian Masterpieces At Vatican Print Ad In London
An early 18th century notices a folio of works by Italian and British masters, called the Pope's Grand Library at the Vatican. Compiled by William Bird, this eight-voice piece features intricate contra-tenor and bass parts that can be sung forwards or backwards with regu lar melody and precise rests. It is advertised for sale in Little Carter-lane, Donors Commons, London, priced at 2s, with notes on other canons and planned future publications by Joust Alcock.
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Finggy
Torthn
Italan
Callid
Vatican
Rome
William Bird
Chapel Royal
Joust Alcock
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SHTP
France
Speaker
Treasury Bench
Crosby
City of London
Robert Ladbroke
Knt
Barlow Trecothick
James Townsend
John Sawbridge
William Baker
Joseph Martin
Eigrs
Germany
Prussia
England
Townsend
Esterday
Thomas
Elac
Culton House
Mansion House
Succesa
Orryge
James the Second
Cornish
James Laroche
Bodmin
Jenkinson
Crown
Charles Fox
Palace Yard
George Selwyn
A. B
Bath
Duke
Exeter
John Rolle Walter
Lord Orford
Robert Walpole
Falkland’s Island
Lat
Plymouth
Hynde
Pomona
Ireland
East-Indies
Cape
Ludgate Hill
Swan Inn
Holborn Bridge
White Lion Inn
Broadstreet
Rummer Tavern
White Hart Inn
Stall-street
White Lion
Market Place
Broad-street
Brisol
Christopher Inn
Rose In
Golden Cross Inn
Charing Cross
White ‘Lion Inn
White Horse
White and
Black Bear Inns
Piccadilly
Joseph Glazier
Ann Bannister
Readhomas King
Christopher White
Norway
Whitehall Evening Post
White
Plumtree-street
Bloomsbury
Lisbon
Society of the Dilettantry
Society
Mesfrs
Chandler
Revett
PARS
Bacschus
Teos
Priene
Mintvaz Polias
Alexander the Great
Apollo Didymius
Miletus
J. Robson
Feathers
New Bond-street
J. Dodsley
Pall Mall
T. Payne
Thomas Jefferys
Bedfordshire
Buckinghamshire
Oxfordshire
Huntingdonshire
Westmoreland
Durham
County of
York
Etherington
Jefferys
St. Martin's-lane
John Hinton
King’s Arms
Paterenotterrow
Nessay
John Huxham
Roya College of Physicians
Edinburgh
Royal Society
N. B
Acre & m
Huxham
Tavo
J. Cor. Huxham
A.M. R.S.S
M. Callieres
Lewis XIV
Academy
Ryswick
R. Baldwin
Pater-noler-row
W. Flesney
Halborns
T. Vernor
Garrick
Ford
Tunbridge
F. Newsrery
Mr. Jolly Newsong
Bible and Sun
St. Fadis
W. Bayley
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