Capitation Tax extends to all ranks in Brabant war era
Amsterdam dispatch notes the French established capitation tax in Brabant, taxing servants and clergy alike from fifty to two hundred florins. The letter criticizes the heavy burden on the poor, claims trade collapse yet army recruitment benefits, and connects tax with broader European war fears and a forthcoming peace congress at Aix-la-Chapelle chaired by Portuguese mediation.
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Brabant
Antwerp
Pergen-op-Zoom
Pergen-op-Zoom, Is Tax’d. A
the Hague
Europe
Republick
France
Spain
Prussia
Germany
Wirtemberg
Monbelliard
Don Lewis d’Acunha
Aix-la-Chapelle
Congress
French Indian Raid at Fort Near Pemaquid
Boston reports from Pemaquid describe about 60 French Indians attacking the Fort. They were repulsed after scalpings left two men dead or dying nearby. One survivor recounted being scalped by a Frenchman before bloodied tracks and missing bodies were found at a distant spot. The wounded man died shortly after reaching the Fort.
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Lantation News
Boston
Pamaquid
Death of Captain Coates and Royal Landing at Limerick
Ireland news reports Capt Coates commander of the Tavistock Indiaman died yesterday in Limerick. The Lady of Sir Peter Warren and her two children visited by yacht were welcomed by the mayor and city notables, then entertained at supper. Dublin items note the wrecked ship Industry of Whitby with 300 hogsheads of sugar lost off Wexford. prisoner George King reprieved to December 5.
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Ireland
Limerick
Coates
Peter
Warren
Colleer
Dublin
Wexford
Whitby
Joseph Corducks
London
Moneferrat
St. Christoper’s
George King
Canterbury Church Appoints Officials Amid Vacancy
Canterbury reports the Dean and Chapter appoint Thomas Potter to the Faculty matters and Abraham Butler, raised in the Ecclesiastical Courts, as Publick Notary and Procitor of the Consistory Court. Butler was admitted in the Archdeacon's Court. Bristol notes the death of Joseph James, a Bath Quaker and prominent distiller.
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Country News
Canterbury
Thomas Potter
Abraham Butler
Butler
Bristol
Bath
Joseph James
France
Saweden
Tho‘mas Herring
Bow Church
Rochester
Litchfield
Coventry
Ely
Chichester
Bangor
Llandaff
Bath and Wells
Lincoln
Asaph
Commons
Lambeth
Acton
Cobden
London
St. Paul’s
St. Austin
St. Faith’s
Middlesex
Farnley
Leeds
Yorkshire
Francis Fawkes
Knaresborough
Atley
House of Commons
Treasury
James Laroke
Eton
Bucks
Martin
Deceas
Meredith
William Meredith
Henbury
Cheshire
Bart
Cheatham
Thomas Cheatham
Mellor
Derbyshire
Jaff
Joseph Trapp
Abbot
St. Alban’s
Wood-Street
St. Andrew’s
Holbourn
Harlington
Trapp
Place
Christ Church
Newgate-Street
St. Lawrence Foster- Lane
Wadham College
University of Oxford
Yarmouth
John Peele
Excise
Thorp
Nottinghamshire
Cornelius’ Waterson
Zhou Fool
Horatio Townshend
Richard Bradford
Lord Herbert
Reflections on War Plans and Ecclesiastical Promotions
The column reports rumors of French and Spanish diplomacy, Dutch neutrality concerns, and military remittances to fund potential naval forces. It notes the confirmation of Dr. Thomas Herring as Archbishop of Canterbury, the deaths of leading clergy, marriages and political remarks from Stockholm and Madrid, and various appointments and lottery drawings.
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Sphikot
Southampton
Dioncese
France
Europe
Madrid
Hague
Spain
East-Indies
M. de Carvajal
Lifton
Duke de Richlieu
Versailles
Genoa
Senate
Leghorn
Naples
Francfort
Ratisbon
Dresden
Vienna
Switzerland
States General
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