Fragmentary Paris and Madrid notices from May events
A jumbled snippet reports the Permanent Council and attention to a note threatening intervention, with Berlin dispatches and mediation by Barons. Madrid letters greet peace hopes, while Paris Parliament debates Jesuit affairs and calls for humane penalties amid torture outrage.
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Berlin
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Chimcellor
M. Blanchot
Baron, Rewicki
Count de Stackelbergh
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Madrid
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France
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Arethusa Arrives. Downs and Ports See Several Vessels
May 22 report lists Arrived ships including Arethusa a Dutch warship in the Downs, Plus Catherine and Waterford, James and Mary for Cork, Diligence for River, Jenny for New York, Hambro for Hull, Laurel Cutter at Poole, Concordia at Plymouth, and others. The text records various arrivals and sailings from Chester, Clyde, and Poole.
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Deal
Arethusa
Downs
Catherine
Smithwich
Waterford
James
Mary
Hotkins
Cork
Diligence
Maiie
Chester
Jenny
Reid
Plymouth
Comiert
Cefey
Biafnax
Dover
Parliament to break up next month amid storm and naval dispatches
Prodigious tempest across Westphalia and Pomerania damaged towns and churches. Letters from Waterford report Two Sisters bringing news from Bourdeaux about Carolina fleets and convoyed ships. A London stage performance of The School for Scandal is discussed with remarks on Fofeh and the king's cautious mind toward natural character.
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Westert
Praffia
Pomerania
Stephens
Admiralty
Beetton Long
West India Merchant
Everitt
Gayton
Jamaica
Maidstone
England
Channel
Kent
Corke
Mary
Harrison
Africa
West Indies
America
Ann
Reed
Clyde
New-York
Waterford
Mallison
Bourdeaux
Carolina
Naotzriver
L’orient
Charles
South Carolina
Drety-lane
Fragmented Victorian notes reveal crime fires and civic shifts
Fragmentary OCR depicts mid 18th century scenes: forging bank notes suspected near London with a 20,000l claim, a Dublin assembly electing sheriffs, a mapledurham death, a Berner Street burglary, a Church Street collapse burying eight, a Bi shopsqite plumber found dead, and clerical appointments at Canterbury.
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Midaras
Ranelagh
Sammer
Epsom
Guildford
Gome
John Fielding
Tholfel
James
Lane
John ‘Pentland
Elgrs
Henry Gore Sankey
Henry Howison
Esgrs
Michael Blount
Mapledurham
Church-street
St. Giles’s
Middlesex Hospital
Bishopsqite
Archbishop of
Canterbury
Francis Grégory
I’ Hanington
Tracker
Nalderson
Mary-le-bone
Guildford Races Continued and Hambleton Heats
Racing notes cover Wednesday's plate with heats for two mile events, listing entries from Sir James Pennyman, Sir Charles Bunbury, and Lord March among others. Yorkshire at Hamonby hosts May 13 with four mile heats, including Carbuncles Venetian Phaeton and Harlequin, plus a sweepstake for three year olds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Pennymon
Charles Bunbinry
S.b. H. Glory
Chedworth
Frederick Evelyn
O’kelly
Hunmanby
Yorkshire
Osbalderton
J. Pennyman
Stapleton
Wentworth
Mr. BethelPs
Ji ‘Pennington
Obihletton
Chefut
Mr.Gee
Anil
Unclear fragmentary notice near Ticehurst pond tragedy
May 12 report describes a family incident at a pond near Ticehurst. A father named Tee, a blacksmith, and children waded near a bank when both fell in and were drowned in sight of their mother. Further readable details are damaged.
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Suez
Tee
Penny
Ticehurst
House of Commons May 23 reads multiple bills second time
The House of Commons on Friday May 23 read a second time the lottery bill and the tax on servants bill, plus the auctioneers and sales by auction bill. It also read and committed the engravers bill, the duties on soap and sugar plantation warehousing bill, and discussed the tobacco pipe clay export. Bills on preventing clandestine unshipping, regulating Rolls estate leases, and Exchequer loans were debated with amendments. Responses included Board of Trade accounts on African affairs and an estimate for Senegambia ordnance. A resolution authorized grants to his Majesty and the turnpikes commission report was received. The longitude bill and the American captures bill were ordered for first and second readings and third time respectively before adjournment.
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Board of Trade
Charles Cocks
Ordnance of
Senegambia
Committee On African Affairs
House
Pen and ink critique of modern manners and nobility
A satirical essay condemns youth and old men alike for indulgence and dissipation. It rails at divinity for fashionably vain bishops and curates, condemns law and science for frivolity, and laments the decline of traditional virtues. The piece targets wearied pomp, effeminacy, and fashion to show a corrupt era.
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Iowa
Reward Offered for Apprehension of Joshua Crompton
Public Office Bow Street May 2 1777 offers a twenty guinea reward for the apprehension or conviction of Joshua Crompton a sheriff’s and marshal court officer charged on oath before Sir John Fielding with felonies of a serious nature. Crompton described as a well looking man about 38 to 40, five feet six inches, fair complexion grey eyes and dark brows, wearing brown bobwig, velvet frock, and other attire. notice calls for information leading to his capture.
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Bow-Street
Joshua Crompton
John Fielding
Crompton
Joshua* Crompton
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