Investiture Edict of Tuscany By Lorraine Lineage
Florence reports a Vienna courier note dated July 12 announcing Francis II Duke of Lorraine and Bar is granted investiture of the Great Duchy of Tuscany after the Medicis line ends. The edict sets succession rules, homage duties, and safeguards for Lorraine heirs in case of male-line extinction. It cites treaties of Vienna 1735 and the Quadruple Alliance, naming Charles VI and Stanislaus I in the arrangement.
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Florence
Lorrain
Tuscany
Francis III
Lorrain and
Bar
House of Medicis
Vienna
Italy
Ratisbon
Charles VI
Poland
Lithuania
Stanislaus I
Crown
France
House of
Francis II
Charles
House of Lorrain
Duke of Lorrain
Great Dutchy
Port News: Ships Arrive and Sail From Various Ports
Southampton and Deal report arrivals from the Canaries Amsterdam Guernsey Antigua London Leghorn and Cork with ships including the Mary Leap George and Jane Two Friends Jane and Two Marys. Gravesend lists arrivals from Maryland St Christopher's Barbadoes Gibraltar Jamaica Leghorn and Faro.
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Port News
Southampton
Arriv
Mary
Stafford
Canaries
Newman
Amsterdam
George
Jane
Allen
Guernsey
Friends
Morrant
Pitton
Gordon
Liverpool
Fuly
Moon
Montferrat
Camel
Antigua
Johnson
Virginia
Bold
Barbadoes
Weymouth
Portland Road
Princess Amelia
Breshaw
London
Leghorn
John
Javern
Limington
Cork
Deal
Portugal
King
Lisbon
Providence
Shattleford
Figara
Hannah
Zip
Cranwell
Bourdeaux
Pierce
Exon
Laney
Fones
New England
Gravesend
Robert
Duncomb
Maryland
Ogilvie
St. Christopher’s
Harrison
Gibraltar
Patty
Sally
Smith
Stanney
Apollo
Brown
Jamaica
St. Catherine
Roberts
Carteret
Olive
Faro
News from Leghorn and Paris detailing trades and Corsican affairs
Reports from Leghorn say the Marquess de Benucins assures Governors that Italians and all strangers trading there will enjoy full privileges under Tuscan laws. Genoa describes Corsican harvest disruption, French effort to stabilize the island, and Austrian support for Corsica. Paris notes a large hotel fire, royal family events, a coronation rumor, and several criminal sentences in Buckingham and Westminster.
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Leghorn
Marquess de Benucins
Duke of Lorrain
Tuscany
Paris Alamain
Genoa
Corsica
Marquess de Rivarola
Bastia
Naples
France
Vienna
Republick
Paris
N. S
Princess of Wales
Hampton Court
St. James’s
Byron
Duke of Portland
Great Marlborough Street
Dogget
Heather
Nine-Elms
Blackwall
East-India Company
Madrass
Bengall
William Jobson
Pool
Dorsetshire
Samuel Lane
Boston
New England
Philadelphia
Buckingham
Christopher Griffith
John Scot
Aaron Burt
Alexander Stokes
Fitber
Tatterhill
Vine-street
Horse Ferry
Westminster
Newgate
Manley
City
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