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Kings illness and court rites described in Naples and Versailles
News from Naples notes the King recovering from a fever after a cold and visiting the St Joseph fair. Work proceeds on a new opera house funded by the King as Marquess de Franchi is imprisoned for disobeying orders. In Versailles Holy Week observances and Easter ceremonies are detailed, with the King blessing many and distributing the Holy Bread, then delaying his Rambouilleur journey due to a cold.
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St. Joseph
Marquess de Franchi
Mew
Julian
Tenebres
Order of the Holy Ghost
Cardinal de Rohan
France
Dauphin
Mesdames
Prince de Combes
Count d’Eu
Aix
Misick
Mesdames de France
Abbe de Choiseul
Duke of Chandos
Earl of Ashburnham
Deceas
Roger Tuckfield
House of Commons
Ashburton
Devon
Edinburgh
House of Lords
Jonathan Whitbury
Norfolk
Audley-street
Miss Smelt
George Smelt
Abel Walters
Lord Abergavenny
Cleveland Court
St. James’s
Townshend Andrews
Boffiney
Cornwall
Horse Guards
Whitehall
Seymour Court
Chandos Street
Thomas Fowlks
Fullerton
Green
Banks
Robinson
Batley
Bromfield
Holloway
Bigg
Wheeler
The
East India Company
Plymouth
Britannia
King
Mocha
Frognal
Bombay
Lynn
Gilbert
Wyndham
Shuter
England
Anjango
St. Helena
Coward
Angria
Parker
Bengal
Buffeiow
Darby
Anselme
Choul
Richmond
Gough
China
Harrington
Jenkins
Bengall
Dorothy Felton
Sarah Boreman
Portugal
Anne Mudd
Jonathan Adey
Isaac Howe
Kingston
George Inn
Southwark
Great Britain
Europe
Paris
Deptford
Greenwich
Isle of Ducks
Turkey
Holland
Gloucester
Frome
Whiliam Seymour
Edward Seymour
Hippy
Bath
Wilthire
Whitchurch
Herefordshire
Thomas
Langartan