This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1857 Excerpt: ... Hill has received his commission to goe envoy to Savoy. Another is designed for Venice; and it's said Mr. Stanhope will be recalled from Holland, and succeeded by sir Phillip Meadows, junior. Thursday was a hearing before the barons of the exchequer between the marquesse of Carmarthen and the lord Hallifax, upon a ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1857 Excerpt: ... Hill has received his commission to goe envoy to Savoy. Another is designed for Venice; and it's said Mr. Stanhope will be recalled from Holland, and succeeded by sir Phillip Meadows, junior. Thursday was a hearing before the barons of the exchequer between the marquesse of Carmarthen and the lord Hallifax, upon a demurrer pleaded by the latter to a bill brought by the former, for the profits of the place of auditor of the exchequer, and the barons allowed the demurrer, and that the lord Hallifax was not obliged to give any account of the profits to the marquesse, till he had made good his title by law to the said office. Sir Cloudesly Shovell, with the English and Dutch fleets and several merchant ships designed for Turky, are sayled from St. Hellens westward; 'tis said they will first touch at Lisbon, and then proceed to the Mediterranean. Yesterdays Dutch post sayes, that general Cohorn had already exacted a million of livres contribution from the countrey of Waes; and that the states of Holland, being so well pleased with the behaviour of their troops in the late action near Antwerp, had ordered each soldier a duccatoon, and the officers proportionably. Tuesday, 6 July.--Letters from Lisbon advise, that the king of Portugall has forbidd all commerce with France and Spain, and ordered their ships to depart his ports. The admiralty has ordered eight 2d and 3d rate men of war to be victualled, and immediately sail after sir Clowdesly Shovell, to reinforce him, the French being very powerfnll in the Mediterranean. The earl of Sandwich, master of the horse to the prince, is not dead, as reported, but upon recovery. This day, sir Roger Mostyn, knight of the shire for Cheshire, was married to a daughter of the earl of Nottingham: her portion 14,0oo/. A treaty...
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