War News From Europe and India Through May Letters
Daily dispatches reveal troop movements across Europe from Brandenbourg to Genoa and the Var with heavy artillery needs. Reports detail French and Austrian forces, sieges near Bavari and Calvi, Prussian mobilizations, and naval actions with ships, transports, and supply convoys bound for Genoa and India.
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Dantzick
Petersbourg
Russian Empire
Cronstadt
Brandenbourg
Berlin
Breslau
Neiss
Magdetouri
Vienna
Leopold
Madrid
Barcelona
Genoa
Tuscany
Bavari
St. Andre
Ratti
Albaro
Sturla
Polfevera
Calvi
Corsica
Toulon
France
Turin
M. Blanquette
Count Schulemberg
Schvra
Savona
Pick
M. Blanqguette
Villa-franca
Medley
Marseilles
Colvill
Antibes
Isles
Hyeres
Hence
Provence
Var
Dublin May 2 Lord Mayor and city offices elected
Dublin reports the death of Richard Civell at his Church Street home. Alderman Edward Hunt was elected Lord Mayor, with John Hornby and John Cooke named sheriffs for the year. The city council plans to present the Lord Primate with the freedom of the city in a gold box. Letters patent enable appointments to deaneries and rectories in Kildare Meath Kilmore and Dublin.
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Ireland
Dublin
Church Street
Richard Civell
Edward Hunt
John Hornby
John Cooke
Philip Fletcher
Kildare
Dromore
Aghnaclone
John Madden
Taragh
Meath
Kimore
Kilmore
St. Anne’s
London News Scoop Tangles Religion and Death in 1747
A fragment from a London page mixes religious polemic with obituaries and notices. It recounts an allegorical moral about temptation and sin, then lists the death of Benjamin Allicocke and the inheritance for his son, plus church appointments, marriages, and notable deaths in Oxford, St. James's Park, and London, alongside European news of Baron Trenk and the Arch-Duke with court alliances. The prose reflects 18th century newspaper patchwork.
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Plais Newdd
Isle of
Anglesea
Nicholas Bayly, Bart
Benjamin Allicocke
Loddington
Northeamptonshire
Counstry
Charles Allicocke
Coun‘llor
St. James’s Park
Flanders
Rroe
Eorge Cragie
Scotland
Kirkwall
Thomas Reynolds
Kent
Craiggs
Hythe
Christopher Harrison
Blaby
Leicester
Newington
Fanny Wellman
Samuel Wellman
Ely
Laff
St. Amholin’s Church
Mr. Cooksey
Wimbleddon
Surrey
James Colebrooke
Miss Skinner
Stephen Skinner
Layton
Esg
Thomas Walker
Oxford
Conybeare
Christ’s Church
Nichols
Westminster School
Anne Hammond
Teddington
Middlesex
Leonard Hammond
Bucks
Mundeg
Mundee
Southwark
Stoke-Newington
James Knight
Elys
Jamaica
Howse
Bloomsbury Square
Francis Stone
Bury-Street
St. Mary-Axe
Anthony Lamego
Vienna
Baron Trenk
Kuffstein
Tyrol
Hungary
Bohemia
Russia
Peter
Leopold
Joseph
John
Anthony
Joachim
Pius
Gothard
Stadtholder
The
Union
Campveere
Zealand
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Holland
Hambourg
Marshal BeReifle
Languedoc
Paris
Marshal Saxe
Ats
Antwerp
Saxe
M. de la Bourdonnaye
East-Indies
Fort St. George
Madras
Pondichery
India
India Company
Prince Edward
Netherlands
Marshal Belleisle
Spain
Breda
Dyle
Hague
Westmalen
M.la Broye
Heukelom
Hulst
Sandberg
Laroque
Axel
Terneuse
Schilde
London
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