Papal audience and Sicilian tax decree headline Rome news
Rome August 9 reports Cardinal Acquaviva and the Pope in audience with thanks to the King of the Two Sicilies for a Crusade Bull enabling a tenth of ecclesiastical revenues. Navona flooded, guards increased, and dignitaries watched the spectacle from St James balcony. The Pope met Harrach and Coronati and heard of Cardinal Schrottenbach’s death. Earthquakes shake Monterosi and surrounding towns while court politics include Bondélimonte debates.
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Cruzade
Auathoriz
Navona
Chevalier de St. George
Acquaviva
Albani
St. Mary Maggiore
Hungary
Congregation of the Holy Office
Mide Harrach
France
M. Bondéelmonte
Avignon
Versailles
M. Bandelmonte
Monter
Bagnana
Franckfort
William of Heffe-Caffel
Hesse-Darmstadt
Hanau
Bens
Franconia
Swabia
Wetteravia
Westphalia
Charles Augustus
Baden-Dourlach
Venice
John de Lizze
Republick
Port News From Plymouth and Southampton Arrivals and Departures
The Aug 76 Port News lists vessels entering and sailing from Plymouth and Southampton. Ships include Martha for Dublin, Unity for Gibraltar, Pompey for Lisbon, Elizabeth for Dieppe, Docking for Liverpool, Exeter for Exeter, Endeavour for Bristol, Olive Branch from Oporto, Swallow for Roe, Batchelor's Adventure for Hamburg, and Danuck Merchant and St Andrew for Lisbon and Philadelphia. Wind is southeast.
Pamphlet on Brandenbourg rights cited in Utrecht Gazette
From the Utrecht Gazette August 26 a pamphlet titled True State of the Case argues the Electoral House of Brandenbourg has possessed Juliers and Bergues since 1609 under imperial and treaty authority. It contests Saxony rights and endorses Prussia’s prerogatives, with notes on commerce and interstate relations involving France, Russia, and the empire.
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London
Utrecht
Hague
Munstér
Saxony
Tapis
Juliers
Bergues
Prissin
Prussia
Westphalia
Goure
Petersbourg
France
Paris
Swiffesland
Gmeres
Fribourg
Vesuvius
Market Prices Lacking Clear Context On Stocks And Bonds
Yesterday values show South Sea Stock at 101 1/2 and South Sea Annuities at 11 x 1/2. Various securities and bonds cited include New South Sea Annuities, Bank 143, Bank Circulation 3, PremIndia 1682 x half, Three per Cent Exchequer Orders 51, Emperor's Loan 108 3 qrs, Five per Cent, and other listed items with fractions and待.
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Prem
India
Royal Exchange Assurance
London Ditro
Ditta
Diceo
Rare French Wines Offered in Old Fifth Street Shop
An advertises a sale by a wholesaler opposite the Church in Old Fifth Street offering Burgundy wine from Beaune and other French labels. The notices claim age year 1734, stored for eighteen months, candle-bright and not forced. Open daily except Saturdays and Sundays, with tastings by single bottle pro rata and option to draw from the hogshead.
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Lowe
Old Fifth-street
Dial
France
London
Dr. King
Charterhouse
Grand Sale of Diverse Goods At Bell’s Warehouse
At the Marine Coffee-House Birchin Lane this day the 24th Inflant goods of James Fulks and the remaining goods of Martha Cross and Carina Parry deceased are offered. Items include mercery linen woollen drapery haberdashery millinery mourning wear bed linen furniture china and more. Viewing at Mr Bell’s Grand Sale Warehouse Aldermary Churchyard Bow Lane Cheapside from morning until sale.
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Birchin-Lane
James Fulks
Martha Cross
Ipswich
Carina Parry
Cloysters
Deceas
Houthold
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John Stanley
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