Royal Notice and British Arrangements in Parliament
From the London Gazette a February 18 report records the Hereditary Princess of Brunswick departing for Dover to sail for Calais, and Nicholas Heath of Boy Court in Kent being granted license to assume the surname Nicholas and bear the Arms as per Elizabeth Heath's will. A long list of peers is noted for Berkshire to Wiltshire in the king’s authority. Foreign intelligence reports on Lisbon Britain's grievances and Prussian royal marriage efforts are summarized.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brunswick
Dover
Ca‘lais
Epee
G Coe Bromswick
Nicholas Heath
Boy Court
Kent
Severa
Wilts
Elizabeth Nicholas
Stapleford
Essex
Nicholas Oily
Icles
Ché
Court of Greats
Brasils
Lisbon
Nngge
Connell
Athly
Lispon
Portugal
The
Hague
Copenhagen
Count de Struensee
Berlin
Prussia
Sophia
Albertina
Sweden
Poland
Distemper Claims Are Reported Suppressing Cattle Disease
A distemper outbreak is said to suppress cattle in Petersourgh and elsewhere, with reports noting the disease appears controlled or largely halted according to local accounts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Petersourgh
Fan
Tragic Mining Damps Claim Two Men In Shropshire Region
Abergavenny February reports two colliers at Pardoe's Clee-hills coal-works suffocated by earth damps. Four others were rescued as two horses perished. A second incident finds Mr Hodges drowned near Ludlow after his saddle bags led to days-old river accident near Stafford's Bridge. In one week twelve fatalities are noted within twelve miles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Abergavenny
Pardoe
Clee-hills
Kimber
Whittenstow
Streton
Shropshire
Hodges
Felton
Ludlow
Earl of Powis
Shrewsbury
Stafford’s Bridge
Shipping News Explains Arrivals and Departures at Downs
On Feb 17 ships arrived and sailed for the River and Jamaica. Catherine Keppin from Virginia and Boston Packet Lyde from Boston remain in the Downs. Other vessels listed include William Wheatley Newmarket for Jamaica Hope Poor for Dublin Carolina Merchant for Carolina Ruby for Gibraltar Lord Hyde Shoemaker for New York Duke of York Clubb for the Screights Kingston Frigate Kennedy for St Vincent Sally Dyer from Bristol arrived at St Vincent’s Queen of May May from (text fragment). Wind southeasterly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
NEW & Deal
Catherine
Keppin
Virginia
Boston
Lyde
Downs
William
Wheatley
Newmarket
Barker
Jamaica
Hope
Poor
Dublin
Carolina
Markall
Ruby
Gibraltar
Lord Hyde
New York
Duke of York
Screights
Bridge
Oliver
Pers
Trecothick
Kennec
Glynn
Kirkman
Wilkes
Roffiter
Esdaile
Alsop
Shakespeare
Halifax
Bird
Bridgen
Crosby
Banks
Ladbroke
Ite
Harley
Plumbe
Townefend
Junier
Spencer Cowper
Guards
Ashley
Cowper
Kig
St. Omer’s
Council of
Granada
de Chantelourg
Lord Hillsborough
Great Britain
Molinex Shuldham
Royal Oak
Portmouth
Newfoundland
Byron
Matton
Greenland
North Seas
Duke of Portland
Collins
Wiggins
Birke
Fulham
Jenkins
Elysiam- Row
Sir John Fielding
Battersea Bridge
Surry Side
John Langhorne
Blagdon
Somersetshire
Miss Thompson
John Thompson
Westmoreland
James Glover
Henrietta-street
Cavendish-square
St. George’s Church
Susannah Gough
Harley-street
Chelsea
Smith
Kensington
Lucy Wilton
S Wilton
Chelsea Hospital
York
Joseph Braint
Braint
Newgate-street
Susanna Garland
Southampton-street
Bloomsbury
Daniel Harris
White
Arundell-street
Pitt
Gracechurch Street
Newman-sreet
Oxford Street
Kennedy
Kennedys
BANK
Charles Parry
Hereford
Hereford, Maltfer
John Gunter
Broad-street
Samuel Jones
West Smithfield
Mercer
Guildhall
London
John Deeton
Robert Vincent
Friday-street
William Langford
Athborn
Derby
Hofier and
Hatter
Thomas Handaside
Moreth
Northumberland
Cernfactor
Turk’s Head
Newcastle Upon Tyne
William Naith
Coleman-street
Lanedon
Packer
Prefler
Fragmented Shipping Names at Sea Lists Read Like Alehouse Ledger
A garbled OCR fragment lists numerous ships and origins such as London Cadiz Leith Gibraltar Cadiz St Sebastian's Jamaica Jamaica St. Andrew and other coastal ports. The row appears to compile vessel names captains and origins in a scattered maritime ledger style.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adelphia
St. Sebastian’s
Dil'gence
Mist
St. Malo’s
Cadiz
Leviathan
His
London
Marblehead
Han 85
Christie
Leith
Gibraltar
St. Zipcard
Ditto
Missy
Ann
Stoddart
Mateee Westmoreland
Roe
Moden
Adventure
Stanworth
Traparti
Portsmouth
Favourite
Frederickson
Ation
Leghorn
Georgia Packet
Anrion
Georgia
Diamond
Her
Jamaica
St. Andrew
Odds
Long royal discourse and court dispatches from London
Reports from London detail a prolonged conference with the king at the Queen’s Palace and dispatches arriving from Sir John Goodricke at Stockholm. The Princess Dowager's gifts include the coronation diamonds, with a luxury presentation to the Brunswick princes. Mourning rites and lay out plans are noted, along with court receptions, parliamentary bills, and unrest among colonial and Indian affairs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brunswick
Prince of Wales
Princess Dowager of Wales
Egremont
Ogton
Wales
Earl of Hillsborough
Handrey-square
Lord Camden
House of Peers
Earl of Sandwich
Admiralty
Lord Ligonier
Draper
William Jollyffe
Petersfield
House of Commons
Maryland
Virginia
Ohio
Alegany
Trith Society
George Chifman
John Bottomly
John Blydesteyn
Queenhithe
Asgill, Stephenson, Law
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London Gazette
St. James's
Janmes
Rober
William Hicks
Papcattle
Chethirt
Henry Manwaring
Pever
Gambridge and
Hoasingdonshire
John Waddington
Cornwall
James Wee
Pencalherick
Devonshire
Charles ‘Hagne
Luipton
Samuel Bosanquet
Walthamstow
Gloucestershire
Edmund Waller
Farmington
Henfordshire
Samuel Mody
Watford
Hérefortshire
John Skypp
Ledbury
James Eliot
Ospringe
Leicestershire
John Peach Hungerford
Dingley Hall
Lincolnshire
Montague Cholmeley
Easton
Monmouthshire
Thomas Fydell
Chepstow
Morhembeland
Francis Blake
Crawley
Northamptonshire
Francis Benyon
Spratton
Norfolk
Toba Lombe
Melton
Wellsbourn
Worcestershire
Charles Watkins Meysey
Shakkehurst
Wiltfiire
Henry Penraddock Wyndham
New Sarom
Yorkshire
William St. Quintin
Scamtton
Bart
South Wales
Brecon
William Davies
Dole Coed
Carmarthen
William Jones
Dofry
Cardigan
Llewelin Parry
Cwmcannon
Glamorgan
Edward Thomas
Tregrofe
Pembroke
John Parry
Penderry
Radnor
William Witcombe
Clyrow
North Wales
Anglesey
John Jones
Pemrhofe
Brodwen
Carnarvon
Richard Parry
Millionen
Denbigh
Peter Davies
the Grove
Flint
John Ellis Mortyn
Calcoed
Merioneth
William Wynne
Park
Lig
Montgomery
Mat. Jones
Crofoyndd
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