The Pope Sends Briefs and A Jubilee to Genoa
A long Parisian letter reports that the Pope has issued briefs to Vienna Turin Versailles and Madrid urging neutral stance for Genoa and offering a Jubilee to bolster aid while Cardinal Alberoni plots seminary fate and Bologna archbishopric. It notes Vienna Rimini Pesaro Fano magazines and preparations across Europe with Austrian and French tensions rising and Provencal concerns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vienna
Turin
Versailles
Madrid
Republick
Genoa
Cardinal Alberoni
St. Lazaro
Placentia
Bologia
Bologna
Rimini
Pesaro
Fano
Shimichi
Leghorn
Naples
Holy See
Germany
France
Spain
Marquess Dé Bok
Nice
N.v
Savona
Tortona
Ghamberry
Provence
Paris
Rome
Toulon
Maidlebois
Belleisle
Low
Moselle
Rhine
Avignon
Nes
Tema
Robberies and unrest sweep Scottish parishes in October raid
In October armed men raided homes of ministers in Leflay Keig and Tulloch stealing money watches and clothes and injuring staff. A second raid at Inverness and Aberdeen followed with similar thefts and threats. A blaze in Canongate left eleven families homeless as ministers flee to safer havens.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scotland
Edinburgh
Robert Abercrombie
Leflay
Aberdeenshire
Alexander Strachan
Keig
Mr. Sheppard
Shire of
Aberdeen
Kirk
Invernes
Sheppard
Canongate
Death of Rev Mr Lambe Bequeaths Large Sum to Dereham Family
Norwich notices the death of the Rev. Mr Lambe at Melton Norfolk. He was worth over 100000 pounds, most of which he leaves to the Hayes family of Dereham.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Country News
Norwich
Melton
Norfolk
Lambe
Hayes
Dereham
Do not bear down on enemy leads to acquittal of officers
The note recalls a Royal Navy trial at Chatham where Lieutenants faced arrest after a failure to engage the enemy on presumption. They were held for a time as prisoners until charges proved insufficient, then honorably acquitted. The speaker also mentions a public oath at the court regarding a prior Vore-al proposal to a Lieut Cen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chatham
Piblick
Lively old verse and news mix from London paper
Conflating verse and brief notices, the page reports royal moves, clerical orders, portsmouth accounts, a sea incident, parliamentary opening, Princess Caroline's illness, and local elections. It names John Willes, John Robinson, Burnestone, Lisle, Garnon, and Francis Eliott among other figures, with occasional commentary on events and public affairs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Willes
Willes
Burnestone
Yorkshire
John Robinson
Leeming
Portsmouth
London
Tam
Severn
Lisle
Sam
France
George Garnon
Hull
Heydon
County of
York
George Berkeley
Deceas
Francis Eliott
Collecr
the Excise
Antient Corporation
Thetford
H. Cockfedge
House of Peers
Royal
Princess of Hesse
St. James
Harwich
Caroline Yatcht
Charles Molloy
Holland
Prince of Orange
Princess of Orange
Caroline
Bath
Dulwich College
James Allen
John Allen
Thomas Allen
Alexander Allen
Putney
Symonds
Fleet Street
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Don Evening-Post
Italy
Saxe Hilbourghausen
Croatia
Berlin
Potzdam
Bernes
Podewilles
Meuse
Namur
Louvain
Nivelle
Hague
Earl of Sandwich
States General
Spandau
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