Proclamation Edict Repealed Then Restored in Copenhagen
A long digest records an edict at Copenhagen dated November 1747 abolishing a prior prohibition on importation of wrought hides for shoemakers. Because of scarcity and high prices, the Danish king rescinded the ban by a new edict. The report also covers tremors near Herculaneum, Genoa military galley acquisitions, and Vienna treaty negotiations.
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Napier
Antient
Herculaneum
Genoa
Sardinia
Vienna
Brussels
Austrian Netherlands
Munster
Ratisbon
Austria
Carinthia
Stria
Berlin
de Franckfort
Baden-Dourlach
Brandenburgh-Bareith
College of Princes
Kilkenny Pickpocket Case and Trial at King's Bench
Dublin report recalls a street incident in Kilkenny where two men jostled a gentlewoman and one stole seven guineas and two moidores. A search led to one confessing the other hid the money. the judge ordered jalap for the captive, who then claimed the money from his body. In London, trials at the King’s Bench saw Francis, Elizabeth, and Margaret Duplacy plus Mr Hugh Litt charged with corrupting a French schoolgirl from Protestant to Roman Catholic faith. Litt found guilty, others acquitted.
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Irel
Dublin
Kilkenny
King’s Bench
Francis
Elizabeth
Margaret Duplacy
Hugh Litt
Romith
Litt
Scotch Peers choose Lord Cathcart at Holyrood
Edinburgh November 20 Scottish peers met at Holyrood House and unanimously elected the Right Honorable Lord Cathcart to succeed the late Duke of Gordon. That evening around seven James MacGee for alias Drummond, noted earlier as a prisoner in the Castle for the crime of Hamefucken, was mentioned.
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Edinburgh
Holyrood House
Lord Cathcart
Duke of Gordon
James MacGrefor
Drummond
Hamefucken
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Edinbelly
Lords of Justiciary
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Scotland
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Paris
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Baron de Montmorency
Mademoiselle Alexandrina
Augusta
Chapel Royal
St. James’s
Prince
His Majesty
St. Martin’s
St. Margaret’s Westminster
Prince of Wales
Prince Edward
His Highness
Royal
Princess Dowager of Wales
Princess Augusta
Leicester House
Princess of Wales
St. James's
Brunswick
Plantagenet
Augustus
Britain
Cafar
Rome
George
Dauette
City of London
London
James Stuart
Foot Guards
Cok Dejean
Dragoons
William Kingsley
Regiment of Foot Guards
Stuart
Winyard
Otway
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