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1706/04/27

Narcissus Luttrell (1857). A brief historical relation of state affairs from September 1678 to April 1714, vol vi. Oxford: OUP.  [more]
From Paris, that their last accounts from Barcelona were kept private, but own their chief engineer Lapara was killed, and succeeded by brigadeer Villars. That the beseiged in a sally had cut off the regiment of Maine, and that provisions were dear in the camp, the Miquilets intercepting their foragers, and that they had taken the covert way of fort Montjoui, and erected a battery thereon. Thursday night the commissioners for England and Scotland agreed, That both kingdoms be united into one by the name of the kingdom of Great Brittain. To be represented by one parliament, which is to sitt here. To have the same successor to the crown. Equal communication of trade, and all other priviledges. And on Monday are to be upon taxes and impositions.
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