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Mining profits and royal courtesies in a Baltic gloom
A fragment from a periodical page notes 4 H E Honourable-Gage securing a 30 year grant to drain silver mines with one eighth of output to the Catholic monarch. It reports royal dispensation to buy Andalusian horses, papal mediation for Sig Bichi, and various court movements in Madrid, Lisbon, Stockholm, and Ratisbon, with a Britain envoy awaiting orders.
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Gage
Viscount Gage
Duke of Richmond
Andalusia
Horfes
Britain
Sig. Bichi
Rome
Motha
Capicelatro
Spain
Beneft
Wilk
Cabephagel
Count Freytag
Stockholm
Grwrers
Jagersbourg
Efrum-Clafter
Numien
Dragoons
Laland
Falster
Lord Glenorchy
Great Britain
Mr Affendelft
States-General
The
Uni
Ted
Finmarth
Norway
Holstein
Frederick-Ernest
Brandenburg-Culmbach
Rendsberg
Scheel
France
Goflec
Count Camilly
Rom Corsbradregaard
Jutland
M. Gabel
Thae
Ratisbon
Dyet
Furttemberg
Mentz
Vienna
Charles Leopold of
Mecklembourg
Christian Lewis
Baron Schutz
Wirtemberg
Philipsburg
Kehl
Saxony
Leiplick
Gemersheim
Swedish Pomerania
Hanover
Offabrug