London notices and global dispatches from the era
On the king's birthday a parade of nobles ministers and gentry is noted. The Earl of Northington is created Viscount Henley and Baron Grange. Ambassadors arrive from Turin and Amsterdam. Executions, appointments, marriages, deaths, ship launches, and weather gossip fill the day from London to Jamaica. A Dutch soap tax, Polish succession tidings, and Virginia letters appear amid race results and market prices.
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London
Earl of
Northington
Henley
Grange
Hampshire
George Pitt
Turin
Arlington Street
Holland
Heer William Gerrit Deuel
Amsterdam
Constantinople
Constaninople
Solomon Bacha
Janina
Achmet Bacha
Earl of Northumberland
Ireland
Barnet
Terrick
Peterborough
Lamb
Lyne
Eton College
Brooke
St. John’s College, Cambridge
Walter Kerrick
Catharine-hall, Cambridge
Salisbury
Hillman
Regiment of Foot
Cornelius Cuyler
46Th Regiment of Foot
Thomas Ravenhill
General Post Office
Western Road
Richard Dickerson
Thomas Scotchford
Ravenhill
Mr. Rowland
Scorchford
Allen Martin
Rowland
John Haynes
Martin
Rhodes
Lincoln’s Inn
Johnson
Upwey
Dorset
Edward Tucker
Weymouth
Miss Little
Warren Liile
Tooting
Surrey
Robert Wyrrill
Wetfron
Bristol
Winyard
Gravesend
Bartholomew Moreton
Nancy
America
Chelsea
Ruffel
Col. Ruffel
Sir John Ruffel, Bart
Dickson
Hudson
Lincoln’s Inn-Fields
Fishmarket
Westminster
Samuel Jones
Warsaw
Count de Pranicki
Count de Poniatowsky
Poland
Berlin
Restoration Era Excise Debates and Crown Power Push
Postrestoration deliberations show Parliament seeks to reclaim Wardship revenues while the Crown presses for an excise grant for life. The Court allegedly used threats and bribes to secure a moiety for Wardship and another for the King, prompting fears of arbitrary rule and erosion of liberties.
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Charles the
House of Commons
Ward
Trand
Charles
Observation at Wall and the Parliaments Corner
A fragment notes Hoover’s remarks on the end of Preferment near Parliament corner. It suggests that most important posts have been filled by those who have greater involvement in Parliament and asserts his government fears nothing from a prince of extraordinary virtue.
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Qluchteren
Germany
Holland
Dutch Flanders
New-York
Pitt
Brigstock
St. Vincent
Island of
Spain
Europe
William Burgh
Virginia
Col. Robinson
New York
Great Britain
St. Augustine
Pensacola
Fort Conde
Mobile
New Orleans
Balleaus
Missouri
Miuliisippi
Robinson
Lords of the Admiralty
Zephyr
Spithead
Cowes Road
Fountain Tavern
Thomas Sanhope
Alia
St. Helen’s
Gravesend
Hoover
Wall
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Mr. Low
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