Fire and plague haunt distant ports in old London Gazette
The London Gazette reports disasters and turmoil from Sept to Nov. Earthquakes, storms, and a deadly fire in Pera destroy homes and burn the Dutch, Neapolitan, English, and Russian properties. A Vienna smallpox outbreak alarms officials while royal visits and public notices unfold amid riots, pardons, and legal notices.
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London Gazette
Somme
Catali
Asia
Defire
Pera
Hames
Porte
St. Anthony
Vienna
Elizabeth
James Gray
Spain
Higue
Orange
S&s
Levy Abrahams
Lazarus Barew
Fryars
London
Hall
James Saylor
Leicester
Dyer
Guildhall
Londéjgs
Joseph Dingley
St. James
Bristol
Roger Howell
Bath Tavern
Royal Chapel Orders and Highborn Movements Captured
London reports detail lower Chapel Royal ornamentation to match the King's closet. Duke of Cumberland takes six of his late brother's servants, others kept on salaries. Duke of Marlborough travels from Wooburn Abbey, Earl Gower from Staffordshire. Lord Robert Spencer prepares to depart Lyons for Paris, then back to England. Earl of Chatham recovering, expected to return to town soon.
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P.S. T
Hug
Captain Fowler
John
Sarah
Scarborough
Onega
Tickner
Nightingale
Strannock
W.N. W
Broderick
Archangel
N.W
Shetland
Tutton
London
Dantrick
Dover
Thomas and
Mary
Harley
Waterford
Nancy
Moore
Judith
Corran
Duplin
Fennight
Edinburgh
Henry Fletcher Partis
Teilinting
Cumberland
Nancy Taylor
Chesterton
Northumberland
Jonathan Scrimshire
Rocherhithe
Miss Ives
Robert Ives
Greenwich
Denham
County of Bucks
Benjamin Way
Ely
Parntfor Bridport
Dorsetshire
Mills Grake
Cadke
Byoms College
St. George
Ien-Square
Thomas Partington
Fore Street
Lambeth
Baitin
St. Ann Soho
James Peraulte
George Dickens
Cloak Lane
Simon Stratford
Kirby-street
Hatton Garden
Clerkenwell
Bridewell
Bowstreet
John Fielding
Knt
William Kelynge
Thomas Kynaston
Elgrs
John Porter
William Fyfield
Mary Redman
John Philips
Samuel Aspinier
Ann Harvey Turner
Charles Moore
Elizabeth Stephenson
Daniel Murray
James Tower
William Waddington
Samuel Ringstead
Walter Field
Jane Connor
Samuel Forrar
Richard May
C. Thomas Jones
J. W
Hlaffels
Barnet
Graham
Delander
Wandsworth
J. Jones
Chapel Royal
St. James's
Duke of Cumberland
Duke of Marlborough
Wooburn Abbey
Bedfordshire
Earl Gower
Staffordshire
Lyons
Robert Spencer
Paris
England
Bath
Earl of Chatham
Notice of River Navigation Act subscription in Hertford
Trustees announce the plan to raise 35000 by loan under an Act to improve River Thames navigation from Hertford. Interest starts Dec 25 1767 at 4 percent, with half yearly payments. Subscriptions urged via Mr Martin in Lombard Street or Mr Thorowgood in Hertford before the upcoming meeting on the 23rd instant.
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Hertford
Thames
Michaelmas
Chistinad
Ichaelmas
Fumr
Martin
Lombard- Street
Thorowgood
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Fohr
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Hilting
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Esquimeaux
Palliser
Carmarthen
Edward Higgins
Lord Shelburne
Brecknock
Higgins
Divinity
Chapel Royal St. James’s
Woolwich
Gloucester
Genoa
Corsica
South America
Cape Francois
Norwich
Fowey
His
Gibraltar
Newton
Sunderland
George Seymour
Bilboa
Dungarvon
Portman Square
Marybone-felds
River Lee
KLNG
Walker
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Scoteland
America
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