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Princes visit to Cambridge and Oxford noted in court
News from the period reports the Prince of Mecklenburg’s Cambridge visit and expected Oxford stop. It records a French envoy memorial at the Court, a Mercer’s Court ballot on Lord Clive’s Jaghire pay for ten years, and varied dispatches from Batavia, Cazambazar, and Rochelle with fires, earthquakes, ships wrecked, and rising river Ganges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Prince of Mecklenburgh
University of Cambridge
University of Oxford
Merchant-Taylors Hall
Lord Clive
Batavia
Cazambazar
Moxudabath
Athes
Avril
Denca
Ganges
Lockipoe
Callule
Rochelle
Oleron
Venus
Robertson
New-York
Newry
Scilly
Tom
Alderman Cokayne
Fessions
Brathwaite
St. John’s College, Cambridge
John Schutz
Altwick and
Ailery
Bedford
Ault
London
John Soper
Chapel Royal
Robert Wafs
Wight
St. Paul’s
St. Mildred Bread-street
Dalton
Mercers Company
Nathaniel Smith
Grantham
Lincolnshire
Jaf
Albert Nesbitt
Marishall
Harleystreet
Maria Fawkes
Sir Henry Atkins, Bart
Plymouth
Anthony Kerry
His Majesty’s Navy
Red Lion Square
Remington
England
Chelsea Hospital
Jane Rogers
Duke of Marlborough
Ann
William
Battle of the Boyne
Limehouse
William Clavering
Neptune
Highgate
Francis Williams
East India Company
George King
On Thursany
Princess-street
John Hanbury Anneflley
Annesley
Dresden
Trent
Cheshunt
Herefordshire
Bull Inn