Princes de Courtenay Seek Royal Honors By Birth Right
Continuation of a memorial asserting the Courtenay princes’ direct male line from Peter of France. They cite royal promises, treaties, and genealogies, noting Henry III and Louis XIV eras, efforts to secure recognition, and opposition by the Parliament and royal agents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry III
House of Courtenay
Henry
Louis XIV
England
France
Sieurs de Sainte Martha
House of Conde
Prince Henry of Bourbon
London
Princes de Courtenay
du Boucher
Chevillon
Peter
Louis le Gros
Duke of Lorrain
House of Bourbon
Port News Outward Ships Remain Inbound Arrivals
Desi March 16 The outward bound ships all remain Arrived the St Anne Blankett from Jamaica and the Cafar Robinson from Carolina Wind W.
Princes Return and Court Befits London Gossip
London dispatch notes the Prince of Carignan returning to Paris with Sardinian Queen’s compliments and plans to travel to Lyons and Chambery. Reports on Lorraine possession bids, French stock declines, and a St James’s Council gathering with new Privy Councillors. Also covers Beron de Warnar’s introduction, John Olmius taking his seat in Commons, a Mile End brewer’s marriage, the late William Bromley’s burial, and stock panic over a potential 3 percent National Debt reduction.
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Carignan
Paris
Sardinia
Lyons
Chambery
M. Meebeck
N.S
Lorrain
Stanislaus
M. de la Galaiziere
St. James’s
Archbishop of Canterbury
Duke of
John Olmius
Weymouth
Dorset
House of Commons
Robert Warfield
Mile End
St. Peter’s
Cornhill
Middleton
Powell
William Bromley
University of Oxford
Baggington
Coventry
Paper Shortage Sparks Printing the Foreign Countries
The town faces a paper shortage driving printers to import foreign sheets as Affizes at East Grinstead condemn a forger to death and twelve to transportation while others suffer shipwreck off the Goodwin Sands. Imports include German linen and paper from Hamburg. exports such as wheat to France and gunpowder to Barbadoes are noted. A fatal fire at Mr. Harding’s Brandy and Oil Shop in Little Britain destroys houses, with a niece and two enslaved women perishing. An Ode titled Alexander's Feast is announced at Covent Garden and high tide at London Bridge.
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East Grinstead
Sussex
Holland
France
Maryland
Harding
Little Britain
Theatre-Royal
Covent Garden
Alexander
Financial Bond and Stock Prices Across Markets Today
Reading of quotes shows South Sea Stock at 104 103 7 8ths and South Sea Annuities at 242 4 8ths with related bank and premium figures. New South Sea Annuities listed at 12, Bank 146 3 qrs, opening circulation at 108, Prem India 180 1 half, Three per Cent Annuities 106 1 half. Royal Exchange Assurance 109 1 qr, London ditto 143 qr, African and English copper quotes, South Sea Bonds 31 8s, Prem India ditto 61 16s, Three per Cent ditto 15s, sale tallies 2 to 4 ditto, Mine Adventure Shares 61, Emperor's Loan 116 18th, Three per Cent Exchequer Orders 63 qrs, per Cent Prem Three per Cent ditto 2 1 Sth co x qr.
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Sgeeray
South Sea
Bank
Prem
India
Royal Exchange AC ‘Furance
London
Dita dl
Mine Adventure
Exchequer
Notice of General Court for East India Company Directors
The Court of Directors of the United Company of Merchants of England trading to the East Indies announces a General Court at East India House Leadenhall Street on April 6 to elect 24 directors for the ensuing year. The meeting runs from nine in the morning until ten in the evening, after which no further votes will be accepted.
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East-India House
United Company of Merchants of England
East-Indies
Aid Company
Leadenhalltreet
Garraway
Fixchange- Alley
Dyers-Hall
Thames-Street
Samuel Torin
Broly
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Marchioness de Bauffremont
du Bouchet
Courtenay
Pofferton
Prince of Conde
Lamenardiere
Port News
London Bridge
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