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Narcissus Luttrell (1857). A brief historical relation of state affairs from September 1678 to April 1714, vol vi. Oxford: OUP. [more]
This days Holland post advises, from Genoa, that general Staremberg the first night he lay in Barcelona, hearing an assassine under his bed, called out, and his gentleman entring sword in hand took his master for the villain, and wounded him in his hand and body; but more servants comeing, the rogue was taken: this hind’red him not from setting out for Terragona, where the allies are incamp’t: and that the Dutch general, Noyelles, died of a quinsy, the 21st of April, at Barcelona.
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Quinsy [Sometimes also seen as squinacy, squinancy, or variant spelling quinsey] Pus-filled swelling in the soft palate around the tonsils, usually as a complication of tonsillitis.