Intrigue and illness ripple through Rome conclave rumors
Rome May 29 reports attribute Cardinal Gotti’s party with defections to Cardinal Corfini’s faction. A scheme to elevate Cardinal Deli to the Pontificate failed amid broad cardinal opposition. Several cardinals are ill. Vienna dispatches note troop movements from Hungary to the Austrian Netherlands and Bavarian auxiliary troops marching home.
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Corfini
Party 5
Stainpz
Fini
Cardinal Portia
Cardinal Corcia
Vienna
Young Daun
Hungary
Austrian Netherlands
Heister
Quelli
Bavaria
Tornaco
Rome
Cardinal Gort
Brussels
Fune
Liege
Haffel
Maubeuge
Netherlands
Leyden
Surata
Baflaim
Bombay
Law
Baffora
Persia
Schach Nadir
Indus
Candahiar
Royal Navy and Merchant Shipping Under Fire in Chops of the Channel
Reports from London detail multiple British ships outward bound and converses with Spanish Privateers. The Dragon, Queen’s ship, and other men of war return to port while several vessels report encounters with privateers off the coast. Dispatches indicate ongoing preparations for an expedition and intelligence on French and Spanish movements. Royal family news notes the Princess of Wales at Vauxhall Gardens, with local officials detailing recent crimes and apprehensions as London navigates a tense maritime scene.
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Kensington
John Ruffel
Earl of Orford
Cambridge
Ludgate-Hill
Hook
London Spaw
Joan Eaton
London
Middlesex
Josiah Burcher
The
Admiralty
Wood
Col. Robinson
Coldstream Regiment of Guards
Prince of Wales
Vaux-Hall Gardens
Iron-Gate
Hig
Southwark
Justice Richardson
Wheeler
Bermondsey Street
Bartholomew Greenwood
Newgate
Col. de Veil
George Wheatley
Promart
Amsterdam
Santa Cruz
Sr. Sebastian’s
Ireland
France
Portugal
City Market Standings Notice Opens Fruits Greens
London 1940 notice from the Committee of Common Council to watermark holders at Leadenhall Market. Standings will be opened on Nudimmer Dap next and applicants may contact Mr Mathew Rycroft to place 112m. Current and future standings must report by Michaelmas next. committee will meet every Thursday at five in the Guildhall Council Chamber to resolve remaining standings.
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London
Leadenhall Market
Mathew Rycroft
Guildhalk
Court of Lord Slayer and Aldermen Coal Contract Notice
London June 7 1740 notice from the Committee of the Court to provide coals for the poor of the city wards they will sit at the Guildhall London on Thursday the 12th at ten o clock in the forenoon to receive proposals from those willing to contract for delivery of six hundred and thirty chaldrons of coal for the use of the said poor
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London
Lord Slayer
Guildhall
Sale of Leasehold Messuages in Brownlow Street
Auction notice states properties of the late Mr Abraham Ford to be sold by administrator. Items include leasehold houses in Brownlow Street and two in Bedford Street near Holborn, appraised value 1581 per year. Sale at Marine Coffee-House Birchru Lane now Royal Exchange on Wednesday 18th between 4 and 6 pm. SamuEl Rosinson, broker in Bow Lane. Further particulars from Mr Fell in Castle Yard, Holborn.
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Birchin-Lane
Royal
Billiter-Laig
Lfe
Stevens Torron
Booker
Belf
Abraham Ford
Marine Coffee
Birchru-Lane
Royal Exchange
Brownlow- Street
Bedford- Street
Holbourn
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John
Anne
Fowler
Leghorn
Antelope
Ayres
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Dragon
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Amiv
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Earl of Wal
Degrave
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Spain
Wallngham
London Gazette
Whitehall
Mary
Princess of
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