Fire Devours Several Shops and Dwellings in Alderman's Walk
The blaze destroyed a Cooper's workshop, a Chandler's shop, two lodgings, and three stables near Bishopsgate Street. Firefighters saved horses. one fireman injured. Widespread damage but no deaths. London Gazette reports St John Island accounts and Quebec supply, plus a list of bankrupts William Holland John Smith Abraham Price Thomas Chatteris.
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Wormwood-street
Bishopsgate-street
Gardner
King’s Arms
Alderman’s Walk
Bishopsgate
Broadtreet
London Gazette
Whitehall
Boscawen
Pitt
Louisbourg
Island of
St. John
Point le Prince
N. E
St. Peters
North Point
West
North River
Lord Rollo
Quebec
Europe
Nova Scotia
Rollo
S. William Holland
Lincoln’s Inn
Middlesex
Chapman
John Smith
Manchester
Abraham Price
St. Margaret
Westminster
Thomas Chatteris
Oundle
Northampton
Estate lands to be sold in the Kingdom of Great Britain
Proposals will be received for the sale of two final farms in the parish of Iangentroc Langanthely in the County of Ralnor formerly part of Bishop Hartstounge estate. Bidders include Sir Henry Hertstounge in Limerick Edmund Sexton Perry in Dublin and Mr Thomas Walter at Lyfford near Farringdon.
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Trewern
Wayvill
Derew
Kinghtow
Iangentroc
Langanthely
Mail from Holland reports Turko-Russian clashes and sieges
The latest letters from Constantinople and nearby ports describe a torn regional situation. Rebel forces drive out the Cham with the Grand Signor promising aid and ordering troops to restore the ruler. Plague ravages Pera and Galata as Aly Pacha dies and Mahmed Pacha rises. News from Malta and Petersburgh covers the Russian and Ottoman stages, plus Prussian fortunes in Saxony and Bohemia as major powers maneuver for advantage.
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Tartary
Porte
Gallipoly
Bender
Rhodes
Aly Pacha
Chutaya
Mahemed Pacha
Hussein Aga
Arfa
Pera
Galata
Florence
Malta
Emanuel de Pinto
Order of St. John of Jerusalem
Tencin
Petersbourg
Constantinople
Cuftrim
Count Schwaloff
Demicow
Vienna
Versailles
Stockholm
Dresden
Vistula
Prussia
Berlin
Dantzick
Petersburgh
Wolkowky
Russia
Republick
Poland
Landsberg
Brown
Fermor
Warsaw
Prince Charles
Courland
Maria Daun
Stolpen
Port News and Militia Petition From The Era
Port notices describe ships like Revenge Chatham Centaur and Stirling Castle sailing or remaining in the Downs with several outward bound vessels to Jamaica Oporto and Louisbourg. A London petition from county women seeks militia enrollment arguing capability to train defend and resist French forces while noting monthly summer drill days and claimed compensation in clothing after three years.
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Kennings
Gibraltar
Ranger
Jemmison
St. Kit’s
Santane
Portsmouth
Stirling Castle
Gauderer
Downs
Revenge
Chatham
Mary
Wright
Louisbourg
Deal
Woige
Stockholm
London
Sheweth
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Robert Turner
N. BR
Newcastle Upon Lyne
Nottingham
Leeds
Kendal
Wakefield
Cambridge
W. W
Guildhall
Grupert Wacker
Midie- Raifon
Lincoln
John Kent
Nathaniel Beard
Aldermanbury
Navestock
N. B
Holland
Prince Henry
Chemnitz
Mitchel
Ralifoon
Aulic Council
Hanover
Cassel
Prince Schubife
Marpurg
Cologn
General de Chevert
Lippe
Fitzjames
Count de Noailles
Recklinghausen
Auvergne
Marshal de Contades
Ham
Hague
Ferdinand of Brunswick
Dulmen
Wahrendorff
Heffin
Prince of
Utrecht
Bohemia
Daun
Saxony
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