The Last Husband Contenders and Foreign News From London
The piece notes a legal question about inheritance after remarriage and reports diverse foreign news. It mentions Count Ligneville’s news from Vienna, a possible battle against the Sicilians’ shift to Spain, the Madrid situation with Miquelets, Calef siege threatening Barcelona, imperial decrees on Protestant Arrets, and Captain Delgarno destroying a privateer near Gibraltar. It also covers weather disruptions off Brittany and money seized near Vannes, Law’s esteem, Mississippi colony plans, and the Countess of Mar’s expected arrival in Geneva.