Swedish Senators Recalled In Plena Diet
From the London Gazette May 26 Stockholm reports the Diet resolved to reappoint three former senators Lagerbielke Hermelin and Gyllénstieria despite earlier excuses. Baron Duben new Chancery President informed foreign ministers to address him. Nine senators remain, an expedition committee completed the deposal. Royal approval noted for Struensee sentence. Cardinal Yorke gifts to Lady Stuart and 4000 crowns. Venice bans grain exports under penalties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London Gazette
Stockholm
Plena
Lagerbielke
Hermelin
Gyllénstieria
Baron Duben
Chancery
Ulric Scheffer
Flanders
Copenhagen
Count Struénsce
Christiansbourg
John Frederic Struensee
Christian
Luxdorph
A. Schumacher
Hoyer
Rome
Cardinal Yorke
Stuart
Venice
London Broadside Notes on Courts and Crimes 1772
London news items recount court actions at Guildhall with Aldermen, Sheriff incidents, robberies, eloped youth cases, and a wide array of social notices. Reports mention beggars and pickpockets, arrests, marriages, deaths, and a riot at a Norfolk flour mill with three killed, amid a stream of legal and civic updates.
Letter defending Lord Clive against al Dowla charges
Ludlow May 22 writes to the London Evening Post defending Lord Clive from alleged plotting against Serajah al Dowla. He argues Clive was not privy to any life attempt or aware of measures conflicting with al Dowla’s stipulations, cites Clive’s redress efforts in Bengal, and asserts Clive’s humane, benevolent conduct. He mocks the paper’s writer Sketch as rash and suggests a more fitting signature.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Howrahan
Exeter
Alderman Elliott
Kittoe
Exmouth
Gloucester
Edward Carne
Oriel College
Oxford
Milé Hitchle
Chacey
Worcestershire
Nailsworth
Newcastle
Frestonpans
Jacobus
Wednesday
Westgate-street
George Grey
Lord Cliver
Serajah al Dowla
al Dowla
Lord Clive
Bengal
India
Clive
Tam
Candidus
Auctions of Estates and Homes in Essex and Northampton
A series of sales by auction across England lists eight lots of Freehold farms near Rumford Essex with 11 dwellings, then two Northampton properties including a well-built Scaldwell house with six rooms and two gardens. Christie auctions a grand Queen Ann street mansion in London with extensive stables. Additional parcels near Surrey and Berkshire include a 109-acre Great Greenings estate at Challendon, and Ashridge Wood with 12 fields and substantial timber. Various viewings arranged by Inn hosts and agents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas Skinner
Cock and Pell Inn
Rumford
Essex
Onesiphorus Leigh
Collier Row-lane
Harrold-wood Common
Noke’s Hill
Mesirs
Gowers
Dyer
Carter, Dearfrey
Cock and Bell Inn
Chelmsford
Post
Ingatestone
Brentwood
Ilford
Skinner
Goswell-street
N. B
Peacock Inn
Northampton
Scaliwell
Market Harborough
Everard Sturgis
Tresham Chapman
Christie
Royal Academy
Pali
Queen Ann Street
Chandosstreér
Cavendish Square
Foley House
Escalier
St:ivary
Adam
Adelphis
White Hart
Riegate
Joséph Hubbard
Marvin
Elm Court
Temple
London
Kiegate
Mr. Hubbard
Challeno
Globe Inn
Newbury
Newbury, In the County of
Berks
Johia Wellbrough
East I LA
Mey
Otterwise Klefley
Niefey
Tounty
St Miles
Oxford
Market Klesley
Wantagé
Wallingford
Ashridge
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Logon Dou
Denmark
Stade
Duke Gloucester
Chevalier de St. George
England
Great Plend
Guildhall
Mansion House
Society of the
Bill of Rights
Aldermen
Court of Exchequer
Westminster
Lydia, Hood
Boston
Cotes
King's
Crim
University of Oxford
King’s College
New York
Clarendon Press
Chelsea
Newtonet’s Lane
Newgate
Ball’s Pond
Stoke Newington
Mills
Mercer’s Street
Long Acre
Jacob’s Court
Cow Cross
David Wilmot
Susannah Bloy
Jack
John Cox
David Brodie
St. Mary le Bone
Samuel Barrington
Houndsditch
Barnes
Blackman Street
Southwark
Carp
Paradise Row
Kensington
Abraham Soter
Kentish Town
John Granfeil
Eig
Pentherer
Brafier
Turnmill Street
Peckham
George Chambers
Yo Che
The
London Evening Post
Ludlow
John Pottinger
Fale
Hill
Marlborough
York
Swittlo
Jones
Sharpe
Snow-Hill
Jamess
Francis Newbery
John Newbery
St. Paul’s Church-Yard
Lisbon
Matthew Holand
Flezney
Gray’s Inn Gate
Richard Joh Ard Urequhart
Royel Exchange
Durham
Charing-Cross
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