Turmoil on Precop Front Seeved by European Dispatches
May reports from Petersbourg indicate a Don Cossack raid near Precop with prisoners stating Turkey has rebuilt Precop defenses and placed 5000 Asian troops in retrenchments. Veldt-Marshal Count Lard has shipped artillery for Temaron with cavalry and Cossacks marching along the Sea of Afoph coast.
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Don Cossacks
Precop
Asia
Count Lard
Isle of
Temaron
Sea of
Afoph
Kilkenny Recorder Appointed and City Leadership
May 24 reports Arthur Helfham approved as Recorder of Kilkenny after a long hearing before the Lords Justices and Privy Council, Alderman William Walker elected Lord Mayor for the coming year. Also noted are a mutiny in Dublin Four Courts leading to a corporal's death, and a Cork murder with a large reward proclamation for convicted assailants.
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Dublin
Arthur Helfham
Privy Council of Ireland
Kilkenny
William Walker
Corr
Lords
John May
Cork
Robbery Arrests Near Pill Field After Bristol Walk
In Bristol on a May evening, Michael Welch and James Tool were accosted by James Shea and Patrick Fitz-Patrick two miles from Pill. Welch, returning from Chatham with wages earned as a mariner on the Defiance Man of War Reprining, was robbed of a canvas bag and twenty guineas. Tool, also present, suffered consequences of the incident.
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Bristol
Michael Welch
James Tool
James Shea
Patrick Fitz-Patrick
Ireland
Welch
Pill
Tool
Chatham
Welch Receives Money at Red Bull on the Key
The sole witness states that Welch was handed money by his landlady in the afternoon at the Red Bull on the Key, detailing the sequence of events and the location involved.
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Welch
Red Bull
London Society Feasts and Murders Stun London
The report details a double wedding at Richmond and St James's with high church presence, a royal baptism at St James's, and a bishop’s final sermon before Bath. It chronicles a brutal murder near Finchley Common, royal announcements on appointments to Minorca and Mint, and several notable deaths including Dr. Maystard and Lisbon merchant George Hudson.
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London
John Talbot
Decker
Matthew Decker
Fortune
Matthew
Richmond
Brown
Durham
Winchester
Londonderry
Stephen Poyntz
Duke of Cumberland
St. James’s
Amelia
Caroline
Maddox
St. Asaph
Oxford
Liberty of Westminster
Bath
Warwick-street
Golden Square
Cecil
Bangor
Salisbury
Exeter
Thanet
Martin Lumley
Essex
Hatfield
Hertfordshire
Bistoprick
Westminster
Walter Goring
Henry Goring
Staffordshire
Gorings
Norwich
Chancery-lane
John Prat
Hampshire
Cannon-street
Northey
Edward Northey
Cambridge
Bromley
Ironsides
Lombard-street
Highgate
Bell Bar
Leather-lane
Barnet
Finchley-Common
Conyhatch
Paris
Black Bull
Gilbert
Prince and Princess of Wales
Chapel Royal
Knights of the Garter
Thistle
Stublick
Anstruther
Parlia
Crail
Minorca
Port Mahon
Karte
Deceasd
Hopton Haynes
S. Mint
John Conduitr
John ‘Philips
Haynes
Anne Berkeley
Willian Los Bask
Stratton
Chelsea Church
Cox
Edward Carteret
Edmonton
George Hudson
Lisbon
St. Jamies
Maystard
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France
Holland
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