Subscription for Volunteers to Serve as Soldiers in His Majesty's Forces
A Westminster county meeting at St Albans Tavern on September 1759 orders a voluntary subscription for able-bodied landmen to join the Army in Britain under an Order in Council. Fundsopened at Hugh Bankers, with the committee to manage it and seek lordly approval, promising discharge after three years or at war’s end and bonuses from any surplus. The Duke of Newcastle to present the resolutions to the King for royal approval and support.
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Mrp- Clesex
snaGeey
Liberty of Westminster
St. Alban’s
St. Adbah
Great- Britain
Amajesty
Maroy
Viscount Ligonier
Uch
Duke of Newcastle
St. Alban’s Tavern
St. Alban’s Street
County of Middlesex
Guyard
St. Martin
Otober
Great Britain
Middlesex Nobility Seeks Subscriptions at St Albans Tavern
Sept 22 1759 notice from Middlesex County nobility gentry clergy and freeholders inviting listed subscribers to name sums and pay 20 percent on subscribed amounts to specified bankers in London prior to a September 27 meeting at St Albans Tavern and committee session authorizing collection by Drummond Backwell Campbell Cooper and Stow and Co.
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Hiddlesex
City and Liberty
Witchinfler
St. Alan's
St. Alban's-Street
Afeff
Drummond and Co
Charing-Cross
Afeff- Backawell and Co
Palmall
Alef. Campbell and Co
Giflingham Cooper
Meff
St. Alban’s Tavern
Middlesex
Westminster
Mel
Backwell and Co
Pall.Walt
Campbell and Co
Mr. Gillingham Cosper
Jeff. Stow
Vestry Resolves Immediate Subscription Drive for Parish Aid
At a meeting of United Vestries of St Margaret and St John the Evangelist Weirmitster September 1759 a subscription for parish aid is ordered. A committee of eleven will collect five guineas or more from inhabitants, with immediate payment of 1 percent and further installments as called. Subscriptions to be held at Feary the Vestry Clerk and published in public papers.
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St. Margaret’s
St. Margarét’s
St. John the
St. Alban’s
Feary
Margaret’s Street
Weilminger
St. Alban's Tavern
St. Alban’s Faverh
Guildhall
Black Friars
Black-Friars
Mail from Holland and Constantinople Aug 17 report
Yesterday arrived the mail from Holland and Constantinople dated Aug 17. An order forbids the Venetian Consul from granting protection to Santriots settled in this archipelago. The Grand Seignior aims to make them tributaries. Coffee houses in the city were shut and reopened quickly with unclear reason. News from Vienna and Berlin covers troop movements near Bautzen, Friedland, and Lohnia, with forecasts of campaigns and fortifications across Bohemia and Saxony. Paris reports orders for seamen to join their corps and Sardinia's troops moving. Italy notes their king’s army on the move.
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Vienna
Marshal Daun
Spremberg
Lohia
Bautzen
Prince Henry
Marquis de‘Ville
Gorlitz
Friedland
Henry
Berlin
Manteuffel
Templin
Guben
Silesia
Poland
Faomuer
Bohemia
Umarburgh
Nieer Wey Inet
Lahn
CroXdork
Gielen
Budephurgh
Fiid Rovers
Azar
Dille
Prince Ferdinand
Salizboden
Duke de Broglio
Hich
Linns
Dedenhoffen
Azlar
Geetem
Wetzlar
Duke de Broglie
Linnes
Prince Ferdinand of Bruns
Crosdorff
Gieffen
Butteck
Dudenhoffen
Werg
Fendi
Luckner
Schwalbach
Hanau
Bay of
France
Saxony
Francfort
Army of
Empire
Notnitz
Dresden
Haddick
Prince of
Paris
Dunkirk
Brest
Havre
Italy
Sardinia
London News on Rodney’s Home Return and Private Plans
London reports Admiral Rodney returned in person to inform the Lords of the Admiralty of private intelligence from his Havre voyage and to present a plan for future operations off the French coast. The piece notes recent captures including two ships named Gibraltar and Mary in a calm, and reports Dutch and French corsair activity near Norse waters and Copenhagen. It mentions a Tuscan vessel St George and Joseph seized by a Prussian privateer and a courier message from Algarve arriving at Lisson.
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London
Tis
Adm
Rodney
Havre
Admiralty
Gibraltar
Osthuizen
Stoffel Johannes
Narva
Ostend
Timbes
Dover
Milles
Johannes
Liverpool
Stockholm
Farele
Scaw
Iceland
Naze
Norway
Cowen Calf Harbour
Thay
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Admiralty Office
Admiralty of
England
Qld
Walco
Cieviane
M. Cooper
Epw
Bathurst
Shrewsbury
Fraternity of the Trueblue
Raven
Pytts
N. B
Fox Hounds
St. George's Fields
St. George's Field
Joyce
Newington Causeway
Blackman Street
Southwark
Henson
Angel
Holbourn- Bridge
Nathaniel Wilkes
Deceas
Winden Lofts
Saffron- Walden
Essex
Repository
Yeterday
Holland
Constantinople
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