Duke of Orleans at Fontainebleau and Royal Curiosities
The Duke of Orleans recovered and visiting Fontainebleau as the court grows with foreign ministers and nobles away. A queen mother sent a porcupine deer foot to court from Guinea via two Capuchins of Blois. Monastic communities mark the Feast of Blessed Peter Fourrier with Masses and Vespers, while Deal reports ships and a Phoenix bound for Guinea.
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Orleans
Fontainebleau
Blois
Guinea
Congregation of Our Lady
St. Marceau
Peter Fourrier
Martincoin
Lorrain
Danish Envoys At Hampton Court Audience With Royal Family
London dispatch reports Count Rantzau of Denmark received private audiences at Hampton Court with the Prince of Wales and later the Princess Royal and other royals. Secretary Pucci of Tuscany conveyed news of Princess Violante’s death. the Queen met in her apartment via Lord Chamberlain Grantham and the Master of Ceremonies.
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Hampton Court
Count Rantzau
Denmark
Prince of Wales
Clement Cottrell
Kit
Duke
Count Ranczall
Princess Royal
Amelia
Carolina
Sig. Pucci
Grand Duke of Tuscany
Violante
Tuscany
Duke of Newcastle
Knt
Earl of Grantham
Sunday notices and city events at St Pauls Church
Yesterday the Lord Mayor Aldermen and Judges attended St Pauls Church for a sermon by Rev Mr Lawson. Sheriff Sir Isaac Shard fell ill and died at Camberwell. Lord Chief Justice Raymond unable to attend due to illness. Lady Susanna Hamilton granted apartments at St James's. Thomas Portain jailed at Newgate for horse theft linked to wagon wheel law. Rev Nehemiah Towgood received Doctor of Physick from Cambridge. A boy nearly drowned in Hackney River aided by three others. Chichester Stage Coach robbed on Hounslow Heath of over 7 pounds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Terin
St. Paul's Church
Lawson
Isaac Shard
St. Paul’s Church
Camberwell
Stringfellow
Sc. Dunstan’s
Raymond
King’s Bench
Susanna Hamilton
St. James’s
Kilman Jack
Thomas Portain
Newgate
King’s High Road
Nehemiah Towgood
University of Cambridge
Hackney
Clapton
Driver
Coverlet Fields
Chichester
Hounslow Heath
Day of Succession Celebrations and Market Listings
On the Day of the King's Succession great guns fired from barracks and regiments on duty answered from Oxman Town Green. Lords Justices met at the Castle, then toured St Stephen's Green with dragoons and bonfires. Market listings show South Sea stocks and bonds. notices invite readers to contribute songs for The Hive volume and list diverse poetry volumes and publishers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Volles
Oxmantown Green
St. Stephen's Green
City Sheriff Eligibility Ban Ordered by Old London Court
The Court of Common Council orders that any person nominated for Sheriff under the 1703 act must pay four hundred pounds to the City Chamber and twenty marks for prison minister maintenance to be exempt from Sheriff eligibility in Middlesex. If such a nominee later becomes an Alderman, they remain liable as if the order never existed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Parsons Mavonic
Middlesex
Notice to debtors of the Stafford estate
The estate of JOHN STAFFORD, late of Edmonton and Ratcliff, deceased, cautions all persons indebted to the estate not to pay money but to the executors or to persons they appoint.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Stafford
Edmonton
Ratcliff
Cloath-colour'd Crab Cloath Left in Coach Seat
A cloak of man’s color was left in a coach seat. It took up a fare on the 17th instant at the Crown and Still in Fore-street. It was set down at Mr. Thomas Green’s, Soapmaker, at the Crown in Whames-street near Bear-Key. A Guinea reward offered to the finder who returns it to Mr. Green.
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Thomas Greens
Whames-street
Bear-Key
Greeny
Sale of estates of Richard Earl of Ranelagh Chelsea and St James
Trustees appointed by Parliament announce the sale by auction of the freehold mansion house and gardens at Chelsea with appurtenances pictures and furniture and the freehold mansion house in King Street St James's with appurtenances. Auction to be held at the Lottery Office Whitehall on Wednesday 23 June at 10 in the forenoon. Details and sale conditions available at Mr Befley’s in Norfolk Street Strand and at the respective houses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard Earl of Ranelagh
Chelsea
King-street
St. James’s
Whitehall
Befley
Norfolk-street
Strand
Also Mentioned on This Page
Deal
Torrington
Wind N.N.E
Gallipoly
Ayres
Genoa
Mary
Woodhouse
Petersburg
Phoenix
Watkins
Telemace
Plato
W. Wit
Lombard-street
J. Roberts
Warwick-Lanes
T. Cox
Royal Exchange
J. Chrickley
London Gazette
Charing-Cross
C. King
Westminster Hall
London
Dublin
South Sea
India
York Buildings
Welch
Fup
HIVE
Austose Puizios
Tickell
Mos
F. Walther
Cornhill
Phinrps
Humphry Duke of
Sir R. Blackmore
VI. Creecn
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