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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: . Advice is also come, that 2 of our Streights ships, of great value, are taken by the French, and carried to Thoulon. Mr. Southern, secretary to the admiralty, has laid down his place, and Mr. Bridgman succeeds him therein. Major general Churchill, we hear, will succeed general Tal- mach in his regiment of guards, and collonel Earl be made governour of Portsmouth. This day was a hearing in council about the Danes and Swedes ships, whither they should be released, but no order made therein. The lord Cholmley and Mr. Bertie (vicechamberlain) quarcll- ing yesterday at the chocolate house, went out to fight, but were prevented by the guards; but they fought this day, and Mr. Bertie was disarmed. The subscribers to the new bank this day chose sir John Houblon to be their governor, and Mr. Michael Godfrey deputy governor. Cardinal Howard hath left his estate to the Convent of English Dominicans, near Brussells, and are to pay some lega- cyes out of it, particularly 1 ooo crowns to the lord Arundel of Wardour. The articles on which the Spaniards surrendred Gyronne are very dishonourable, there being 5000 men in garison, who marched out without arms or baggage, their horse dismounted, save only 10 in each troop, who are to goe to Rousillon by easy marches round the Pyrenean hills, and not to serve against France this campagne. From Flanders, that our army is in very good condition, and have forage enough where they are for a month, which tis beleived is longer than the French can subsist, so that we may hear of some action. The dauphins wines not being come up, he sent to our king to borrow 2 load, and his majestie sent him 6. The Dutch man of war which last week oversett goeing to Holland had a great summ of money on board, and 3 daughters of Van Citter...
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