Subscription for wartime defence in Westminster 1759
A county and city meeting at St Albans Tavern resolves a two shilling subscription and voluntary contribution to fund soldiers for His Majesty's forces. A committee will collect pledges, open accounts with bankers, and prize discharge terms within Britain. Funds may reward able-bodied volunteers for militia service if excess funds remain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mrnp- Clesex
Westmenster
St. Alban’s
Adar
Great- Britain
Bis Ada Ferly
Fulylaf
Tonhall
Viseount Ligonier
Coreanef
Sten Ako
Magery
Duke of
Newcastle
N. B
Mcif
Drummord and Go
Chasing-Cross
Meil. Bickwell and Co
Pall- Mall
Meil. Campbell and Co
Meeting to promote subscriptions in Arddlesex district
Sept 22 1759 the Nobility Gentry and freeholders of Arddlesex with West mh fit city and liberty urged to attend a General Meeting at St Johns Tavern St Albans Street Wednesday 19 instant to subscribe and name their sums for Wesf Drummond and Co Backavell and Co Campbell and Co Giffingham Cooper and Sway and Co marked targets for the subscription drive and to provide their names and pledged amounts
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alban’s Tavern
Dindilsex
St. Tiban’s
St. Obai's Street
Arddlesex
City and Liberty
West Mh
Gamry
City
Liberty
Bed
Mednesday
St. Joan's Tavern
St.Alban's Street
News from Europe and War Briefs Across Multiple Fronts
Reports from Danzick and Puffenwalck detail Swedish casualties and captures near Parlewalck, with 400 Swedes seized and several officers taken. Across the Baltic and German theaters, British, Prussian, and French movements unfold as fleets engage near Usedom, Colberg, and Magdeburg, with Allied advances toward Gieffen and Leipsick and a cardinal promotions note in Rome.
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Siulpnagel
Knesewitz
Parlewalck
Sweden
Puffenvalck
Carpelan
Ile of
Usedom
Colberg
Cronstadt
Copenhagen
Berlin
Count Duhna
Waldau
Manreuffl
Pomerania
France
Port News Arrivals and Movements From Falmouth and Downs
Port News from Falmouth and the Downs records arrivals including the Niholas, E dt Peterson Fein headan, Jenny, Coopers, Thomas and Elizabeth from Plymouth Bay Turnpenny and Blewir from London and ships bound for Lisbon Cork and London. In the Downs Majesty's ships Aquilon Grampus Wolf Sloops and others remain, with several vessels sailing or preparing for Cadiz Plymouth and Cork amid a strong northeast wind.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Falmouth
Niholas
E. Dt Peterson Fein
Headan
Stats
His Majesty’s
Jenny
Carford
Virginia
Londons
Barnevelt
Howard
Nathaniel
Hunter
Liverpool
London
Mary
Anne
Anderson
Milford
Thesybella
Srauth
Nency
Waterford
Lynn
Charlestown
Brstol
Lizard
Cork
Downs
Aquilon
Julines
Elizabeth
George
Duke of Marlborough
Hufsar
Marquis of
Granby
Susannah
Hays
Sweetman
Cadiz
Plymouth
Sprigs
Wind N.E
Private Letters Hint Leipzig Surrender and Bohemia Move
London reports private letters from the Mail noting Leipzig may have surrendered to General Wunfch with two battalions captured and a march toward Dresden to join General Finck. Other letters say Dresden was retaken, Fouquet moves into Bohemia, Daun follows, and Prince Henry pursues Daun as the campaign likely ends in Bohemia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wetxlar
Magtha Contades
Anterod
Dudeshoffiin
Gieffen
Ferdinand
Prince Ferdinand of Brunswick
Nieder-Weimar
Mulhausen
Kleist
Vacha
Smalkalda
Francfort
Afaya
Deux-Ponts
Gieslen
Lower Rhine
Mayn
Thuringia
Wunfch
Saxony
Leipfick
Empire
Leifick
Kerfuillez
Oecause
M. Bompart
Toulon
Sunkirk
Thurot
Britanny
Rome
London
Du'ch
Leipsick
Dresden
Finck
Fouquet
Silesia
Bohemia
Marshal Daun
Prince Henry
Count Dauns
Naples
Don Philip
Also Mentioned on This Page
Admiralty Office
Admiralty of England
Cashel
Justice Hall
Old Baily
Marek
Offeber Oi
J. Crivtanpd
Guildhall
Black- Friars i
Thames
Black Friars
Batuursrt
Geerge Sackvill
Colorel Fitzroy
Newmarket
Frog de
Shrewsbury
Fraternity of the Trueblue
Dhe Raven
Toefiay
Potts
Fox Hounds
Bethlem Hospital
Sid
Moorfields
R. Hunter
Edwund Green
Woolstajter
Woburn
Bedforsshire
Francis Green
Richard Filkes
Joie Freeman
Edmund Green
Manchester
Jseph
Bristol
Joshua Marier
James Barron
Dorning Rasbotham
Allen Viger
Holland
Flanders
Stettin
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