Jesuit misdeeds and plots alleged across kingdoms
Hospinianus denounces the Jesuits in four books detailing alleged acts of impiety seditions and crimes in Portugal England Scotland Bohemia Hungary Muscovy Poland and elsewhere He claims their doctrine includes killing and deposing kings and princes with reported equivocations and contradictions The text presents a polemical history aimed at discrediting the order.
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Iphus Hospinianus
Namie
Jelyua
Portugal
Brince
England
Scotland
Bohemia
Hungary
Muscovy
Poland
Virtue and Education Shape Commonwealths, Warned by Honestus
A letter from Honestus argues education molds nations as twigs bend trees. Virtue and industry in youth yield prosperous, virtuous citizens. luxury and vice portend decay and misery for states. The author cites Providence and historical pattern to urge parental and public focus on early moral training.
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London Evening Post
Meres
LE Wife
Letter from the Poor of the Nation in Defense of Their Value
In a London Evening Post letter signed Democritus, the writer claims the Poor are wrongly denigrated as cattle, arguing they are the State’s Strength, Support, Honour, and Riches, since soldiers, sailors, and laborers come from among them and sustenance of trade and land cultivation relies on their labor. The author asserts the Poor uphold national defense and wealth while rejecting dehumanizing comparisons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Meres
Democritus
Representations of the People and European Assemblies
The passage contrasts popular assemblies in Europe, noting that only Britain Ireland Poland Sweden and Switzerland have meaningful bodies. It claims other countries have governance without genuine representative voice or legislative power. It condemns French parliaments as mere superior courts of justice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Europe
Britain
Ireland
Poland
Sweden
Switzerland
News Briefs From Across Europe and Nearby Regions
Mail from Holland and Warsaw reports promotions in Polish service and Courland nobles planning to join a dissident alliance at Sluck. News from Mittau, Stockholm, and Copenhagen notes nobles, royal journeys, and court changes. Telegrams cover Baltic unrest, Russian troop movements toward Warsaw, Captaia defense, Prussia royal gifts, Sardinia honors, and ParisJesuit banishment debates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Holland
Warsaw
Count de Branicky
de Goltz
Mittau
Courland
Sluck
Prince de Radzivil
Waywode
Wilna
Russia
Order of St. Andrew
Stockholm
Baron de Breteuil
France
Abbe du Prat
Versailles
Copenhagen
Hesse
Hanau
Prince Frederick
Rotschild
John Frederick Friis
Conference
College ofEconomy and Commerce
Thorn
Slack
Wilda
Niefwicz
Poland
Lithuania
Genoa
Captaia
Aisland
Berlin
Prussia
Turin
Count Dethayes
Sardinia
Order of St. Mauritius
Paris
Robert de St. Vincent
Edict Orders Expulsion of Jesuits Across Kingdom
A royal arret declares the Society of Jesus an enemy to sovereignty and public tranquility. Jesuits active Aug 6 1761 must leave within 15 days from publication or face prosecution, with exceptions for those who have taken the prescribed oath. Governors, judges, and clergy are forbidden to harbor or employ Jesuits, and the King seeks papal aid to abolish the Society as a danger to Christendom and state power.
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Society of Jesuits
London Society and Commerce in Brief Adorn London Dispatch
News from London reports the Earl of Chatham proceeding to Bath, the Duke of Marlborough leaving Marlborough House for Blenheim, and Rouffeau en route to France. Parliament sat late, and naval orders for Barbary foes issued from Leghorn. Reports on East India Company affairs, a Temple Bar debating society inquiry, and beneficence for Protestant schools in Ireland accompany ship arrivals, seizures, coinage counterfeits, Irish tallow imports, and a funeral in Holborn. An elderly French swordsman is noted for fencing and draughts skills.
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Earl of Chatham
North End
Bond-street
Bath
Duke of Marlborough
Marlborough House
Pall-Mall
Blenheim
Oxfordshire
John James Rouffeau
France
Leghorn
the Two Sicilies
Barbary
North America
Conway
Count de Guerchy
Mont. Durand
Earl of
Calais
Shooter’s-hill
Portugal
Dublin
Holborn
Grignion
James Scott
Trinity College
Cambridge
Charles Green
Royal Observatory
Greenwich
William Falconer
Royal Navy
James
Earl of Chesterfield
S. Crowder
Looking-glass
Francis Blyth
Royal Exchange
J. Gardner
Parliament Street
Westminster
Etherington
York
Merril
Jackson
Oxford
Smith and Son
Great Britain
Ireland
River arrivals of Dutch and Hamburgh ships
This morning two coin ships from Holland and one from Hamburgh and the Streights arrived in the River. At Egham in Surry Mr John Ward's shopkeeper has a polyanthus with a stalk three inches in circumference and one hundred and seven pips. Yesterday a large oak- tan mad in Smithfield toppled several people with Kilket wontan's thigh broken. Three pickpockets were detected at Hore-fair in Smithfield one ducked in a horse pond and the other two sent to the Compter. Deal May 22. Wind N E.
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Holland
Hamburgh
Streights
John Ward
Egham
Surry
Smithfield
Kilketwontan
Compter
Deal
Prices of Bank Stock and India Bonds in Historic Ledger
The excerpt lists diverse securities with odd lot annotations including Bank stock values, India stock quotes, South Sea items, and various conjoined notes. It references Old An 86 3-4, New Ann 3 per Cr, and several percentage and fraction marks tied to historical bond and stock listings across multiple years and entities.
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India
South Sea
Dir
Decoded shipping rates list with port pairs and fractions
Mixed ship fare notations show routes such as Amsterdam Rotterdam Antwerp Hamburg Paris and Bordeaux Cadiz with fractional shares and days. The fragment lists prices or tariffs by half day units and quarter fractions, lacking complete context or dates.
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Honestus
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London Evening-Post
ESSA
Celia Fies
Venus
London
London Bridge
Nat
Be - Nayay
Pets
Rip
Antwerp
Bourdeaux
Cadiz
Chawge, &c. Madrid
Bilboa
Leghorny
East-India House
United Company of Merchants of England
East-Indies
Merchant. Taylors Hall
Threadneedis
Theocritus
Francis Fawkes
M.A
Anacreon
Sarine
Bron
Moscuus
Mustus
Mel Dodsley
Fletcher
St. Paul's Church-Yard
Arashan Nicuts
Indies
M. Gailand
Royal Academy
T. Longman
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