Turbulent Balkan Action and Franco British Mediation News
Reports from Vienna May 17 describe Turks attacking Ortova with fierce fighting. Garrison retakes old town while Imperial casualties include a Major General and several officers. Paris conference notes Earl Waldegrave seeking impartial mediation with Cardinal Fleury on Spanish depredations and West Indies trade, amid doubts over prospects for peace before the campaign opens.
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Ortova
Poffetfioh
Utretcht Gazette
Paris
Weare Assur
Earl of Waldegrave
Cardinal de Fleury
Great Britain
France
Britannick
West-Indies
Guarda Costas
Madrid
Waldegrave
Spain
Constantinople
Edinburgh Assembly Funds To Suppress Popery
In Edinburgh on May 18 the Assembly approved his Majesty's warrant for 1000 to be used by the Assembly to suppress the growth of Popery and to promote other good ends in the Highlands and Islands.
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America
Scotland
Edinburgh
Highlands and Islands
Aristocratic alliances and royal births in early 18th century news
Exeter reports Arthur Ackland wed Mrs. Veale in Broad-Cliff amid fortune and lineage. Gloucester notes a young ecclesiastic found dead near Hogwood. Burford folks jailed for theft goods from fairs. Portsmouth chronicles Admiral Haddock sailing with a squadron from St Helens. London confirms the birth of a Prince, baptism, and court appointments amid naval and political updates.
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Exeter
Arthur Ackland
Hugh Ackland
Killerton
Devon
Batt
Portugal
Broad-Cliff
Ackland
Gilbert
George Veale
Deceas
Gloucester
Charter-house- Henton
Somersetshire
Hogwood
Burford
Edward Taylor
William Baily
Henry Baily
David Evans
Rosamond Baily
Jane Evans
John Lenthal
Oxford
Stow
Fairford
Swindon
J. Foreshew
Fortescue
Portmouth
Admiral Haddock
St. Hellens
N.N.E
Somerset
Barnsley
Lancaster
Caley
Berwick
Solegard
Ipswich
Martin
Edinburgh
Gaddes
Plymouth
Townshend
Canterbury
Trevor
The
Jersey
Yee
Dragon
Barnet
Solebay
Cooper
P.S
Remov
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Country News
London
Princess of Wales
Norfolk House
St. James’s Square
Archbishop of Canterbury
Lord Baltimore
Kensington
Marquess of Carnarvon
Cannon
Jermyn-street
Prince
St. James’s Park
Tueday
Smith
Chelsea
Admiralty
Collins
Duke of Cornwall
Newark Upon Trent
Duke of Rutland
Thomas Lumley Saunderson
Bath
Earl of Scarborough
Henry Arthur Herbert
Ely
Mary Yatcht
Molloye
Greenwich
Holland
Jolly Tit
Smith 2d
Fewkes
Carey
Augusta
Byng
Epsom Downs
Bridgman
Poppet
George Hanmer
Paddington
Harrow On
Foster
Cowes
South Carolina
Georgia
Havannah
Charles-Town
St. Augustine
Offin
Boston
New England
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