News from Caffel and European fronts in late November
Reports from the time describe forces under the hereditary Prince of Brunswick cantonments, French troops advancing toward Nordheim, and expectations of winter quarters for allied armies. Letters from Hamburg, Paris, and Portsmouth discuss garrison actions, naval preparations, blockades, and ongoing diplomatic negotiations with Britain, including ship movements between Dunkirk, Brest, and Ferrol.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Serene
Gandersheim
Prince Frederick
Nordheim
Sudheim
Hardenberg
Bovenden
Luckner
Oldershausen
Werra
Eimbeck
Hildesheim
Neuhaus
Lord Granby
Solling
Daffel
Militia death sentence and assorted 1761 notices amid London
In a 1761 miscellany, a West Kent Militia militiaman was executed by whipping for taking money from French prisoners, with the sentence completed. The column also records marriages, deaths of tradesmen and officers, public notices from the Office for Sick and Wounded Seamen, a charity governors’ court, robberies near Newington Green, and auctions for property including Peerless Pool and a sugar house. The items reflect court-mattle discipline, societal ties, and civic commerce in London and environs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Doggiel
West Kent
Lord Romney
Liffinghurst Castle
Hodges
Horsham
Worcestershire
Clapton
Parkins
Taylor
Watling Street
Johnson
Foster Jane
Silver
Samuel Dunbar
Aldermanbury
New York
John Jones
Vaughan
Valentine Jones
John Elliott
Tower-street
Trotman
Aid Hospital
London Hospital
Steward
Benjamin Gifford
House Committee
W. Trotter
Dees
Newington Green
Kingsland
FOM
Cornhill
Thomas Richardson
Water-Lane
Custom-House
Phipps
Ship Tavern
Endia-House
Leadenhall
Peerless Pool
Apt
Klind
England
Leafe
Michaelmas Lair
Robert Phipps
Ccee Church
Leadenhall-street
Port News Deals with Winds and Shipping Arrivals
Deal reports wind shifts and ship movements on December 4 and 5. Sloops and vessels including the Happy sloop and New Union Edwards sail for Dublin and Plymouth. The Loestoffe and Bonetta arrive from cruises. Hind and Martin sloops of war depart on a cruise. The Three Brothers from Dublin arrives at Yarmouth.
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Deal
Wind W.N. W
Downs
New Union
Edwards
Dublin
Elizabeth
Bowen
Plymout
Pitt
M‘donough
Cork
Dennis
Bermudas
Joseph
Phillips
Boston
S.S.E
Loestoffe
Bonetta
Hind
Martin
Yarmouth
Storéy
Dubin
Royal assent granted to acts on royal dignity and land tax
In London on Wednesday the King, in robes on the throne, sent Sir Septimus Robinson to summon the Commons. The King gave royal assent to an act for providing for the Queen’s dignity and to an act granting a land tax for 1762, plus related duties on malt, mum, cyder, and perry. Also an act repealing part of insolvent debtor relief. Saturday Gazette lists addresses to the King and Queen from various regions and bodies.
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House of Peers
Commons
Great Britain
Matt
Mum
Cyder
Perry
King George the Third
Ana
Guernsey
Flintshire
Suffolk
Trinity-house
Kington Upon Hull
Wallingford
Berks
Cockermouth
Edinburgh
Flinsshire
Flinshire
Princess Dowager of
Wales
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Lonnon
Hague
Ferdinand
Silesia
Saxony
Darry Beerstrer
Owi
Francfort
Marshal Broglio
France
Paris
London
Dunkirk
Havre de Grace
Rouen
Brest
Rochefort
Port ’Orient
Bourdeaux
Toulon
Spain
Ferrol
Southas
Peter Denis
Howe
Kepple
Polly
Stonehouse
Whitby
Cape de Verd Islands
Carolina
Triumph
Bayonne
Mulder
Jonge Lamb
Jansen
Lady Maria
Dawett
Norway
Barcelona
Concordia
Vatze
Belfast
Hamburgh
Prussia
James
Rialto
Thomas
Alexander
Neilson
Virginia
Bristol
Mary
Reid
Hardy
Guinea
Goodwin Sands
Portsmouth
Spithead
Commodore Young
Enterprize
Innis
Pluto
Allen
Carkafs
Clarke
Chesterfield
Africa
Plymouth
Mars
St. Florentine
Dows
Kew
Lighthorse
St. James’s
Sumner
Ecclesiates
Lord Sandys
Thomas Sewell
Lincoln’s Inn
Winchelsea
Earl of Thomond
Nugent
Marquis of Granby
Duke of Marlborough
Oxfordshire
Duke of Ancaster
Lincolnshire
Richard Phelps
George Pitt
Turin
Archbishop of
Canterbury
Lambeth
Monitor
Feiat
Gol
Vor
Port News
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