News of battles and plagues across Europe and Africa
Reports arrive of Prince William of Brunswick's death after five days with fever. Polish regiments seized near Krakow as plague spreads in Little Poland. Ruffian squadron captures 40 ships near Tenedos bound for Constantinople. False decrees in Bologna claim Jesuit suppression. Migration waves rise after King Stanislaus’ death. Corsican letter notes French failures against mountaineers threatening stability in Corsica.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Warfawy
Romanzow
Prince William of Brunswick
Pulawski
Krakow
Poland
Bender
Leghorn
Tenedos
Constantinople
Asia
Africa
Bologna
Clement XIV
Stanislaus
Paris
Corsica
Marbceuf
France
Watches Recovered and Grim Murder in Plymouth News
Country news reports Bath watchmaker Mr Bullock recovering 39 of nearly 80 stolen watches, eight gold, with details of the April burglary. A Somerset farmer is ordered to castle for the murder and suspected rape of a village woman, aged sixty five, found with bloody clothes and razor. Extra from Plymouth lists ships and armaments, with gun counts, guardships, and provisioning notes for the fleet and victualling offices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
Bullock
Oxford
Plymouth
Royal George
Chichester
Queen
Chat
Royal Oak
Ham
Kent
Magnanime
Ing Hero
Cornwallis
Temeraire
Swan
Limerick
Cadiz
Ditto
Foweys Lively
Portsmouth
Sound
Military dispatches and naval readiness near Sheerness
Extra. of aceter from Sheerniff reports General Conway and Sir Charles Frederic viewing the garrison, ordering 20 000 bags to defend walls. Yarmouth arrived with a fire extinguished in carpenters store, amid a thousand pressed men aboard. Mercury frigate Keeler from Chatham. Lords of the Admiralty to view dockyard. pressing continues hot. war likely.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sheerniff
Conway
Charles
Frederic
Yarmouth
Noré
Mercury
Cap- Keeler
Chatham
Fea
Admiralty
Plague Quarantine and Royal Court News from August
Letter from Lisbon dated August 315 reports Mediterranean ships in quarantine due to plague. A false alarm about an English vessel caused two deaths from suffocation by wet corn vapors then. Advices describe Ottoman defeat impacts in Morea and revolts in Thessaly. Royal visit to St James's, levee, and a conference with the Spanish ambassador follow. Foreign ministers, Knowles, and North comment on tensions with Spain and France. Cadiz defenses and Port Egmont events are noted. Local civic decrees and forthcoming Guildhall oaths and court sessions are announced.
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Lisbon
Levant
Mediterranean
Morea
Lavidia
Thessaly
Richmond
St. James’s
North
Rochford
Hillsborough
Halifax
Edward. Hawke
Prince Maffareno
Powis-house
Ormondftreet
Sir Charles Knowles
Bert
St.James’s
Lord North
Great Britain
Earl of Chatham
House of Lords
Falkland Island
Fenc
Admiralty Office
Lloyd's Cotten-house
Port Egmont
Cadiz
O’reily
Madrid
Havannah
Leeward Islands
France
England
Guildhall
Westminster
St Margaret’s Hill
Southwark
Court of Aldermen approves Recorder leave of absence
London notices recount motions at the Court of Aldermen regarding the Recorder's absence for one month from their Court while denying dispense nt from attending the superior Court. The Lord Mayor is to inform the Recorder of the consent and advise him to address the Common Council for a parallel leave. Also reported are appointments, a church rectory vacancy, mail robbery near Paddington, highway robberies near Islington, and recent hospital wounding of sailors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Privy Council
Alderman
Townsend
Pottseripe
Cominon-Council
Alderman Nath
Commen ‘Council
Court’of Aldermen
Court of Aldermen
Court of Common Council
James Wright
Wray-house
Essex
Warren
Diocese of
Ely
Potter
Canterbury
London
Paddington
Coventry
Islington
Highgate
Duke of Richmond East Indiaman
St. Thomas’s Hospital
St.Luke's
Old Street
John Kenny
Spital-fields
Susan Barrat
Bishopsgate-street
Gray’s Inn
Humphreys
St. Paul’s Church
Mary, Bone
Port arrivals and sailings noted in Plymouth and Portsmouth
Plymouth and Deal report arrivals from London Oporto Jamaica and Jamaica links. Vessels listed include Britannia Camberivell Friends Assistance Glory Westmidrland Ardel Royal Charlotte and others with sailings to New York Lisbon Portsmouth and the River. Shipping movements reflect Royal Navy and merchant ships in late September.
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Plymouth
Britannia
Miller
London
New Yorks
Deal
Glory
Yorke Bruges and Dilpanic Ship Incident Report
A note records an event involving Yorke Bruges and a vessel named Dilpanic f ship. Details are sparse in the fragment, with limited contextual names or dates provided. The text suggests a maritime or shipping matter requiring clarification.
Public notice of medical cure claims in parish records
Statement from John Kingston and William Bedson dated July 16 1770 asserts a family cured of boils through a variety of medicines. It notes Sarah daughter of James Marny left service due to a levy described as leprosy like. John Kingston signs as chure and mentions Dr Rysseeg in Broad Street Carnab with free remedies offered.
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John
Kingston
William Bed
Chu
Christ Churgh Uly
Sarah
James Marny
St.Martin’s Street
Rysseeg
Broad-Street
Ste Paul
Extraordinary Cure Claim From Drops in London Letter
A reader describes long illness treated by a patent drop remedy from Hal in Johnson's Court London. After trying many physicians, the writer found temporary relief and then full recovery following continued use of the drops, credited to Mister Berin ton, surgeon, in Piccadilly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iran
Hal
Johnson’s Court
Berinton
Piccadilly
London
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Yeterday
Hollianp
Flanders
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