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Papal France Fort Louis Governorship Reduced to 7000 Livres
The letters describe shifting governance in Fort-Louis with a 60 percent cut from 12000 to 7000 Livres per year, naming the Marquess de Rotensin and the Duke of Orleans. It notes deaths from smallpox, royal compliments to the Spanish Infanta, and various courtly gatherings, feasts, and political proceedings across London and Marseilles. It also covers a theft report, court actions, theater notices, and stock prices in London.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort-Louis
CCI
Marquess de Malhoret
d’Auge
Duke of
Orleans
Elizabeth
Spain
Marquess de Castelhar
Count de Kinski
Duke de Rocheguyon
Duke de Rochefoucaud
Madamoiselle de la Rochefoucaud
Duke de Tallard
Cadiz
Porto Rico
Marseilles
Duke de St. Aignan
Toulon
M. du Guay Trouinis
Sieur Janson
St. Roche
London
Robert Sutton
Bath
Hanover Square
David Denham
Pett
Sussex
Guildhall
Verdi
Haggins
St. Clement Danes
Newgate
Duke of Newcastle
Parfofis-Green
Hampton Court
St. James's
Theodore Waterland
Long’ Stanton
Cambridgeshire
St. Bennet Fink
Royal Exchange
Wandworth
Surrey
Humphry Is
Borough of Grampound
Cornwall
Judith Morris
Wandswor
Whitehall
Keene
Marquess de Montejo
England
Charles Wager
Leghorn
O.S
Grand Duke
Florence
Perlon
Seaton
Vere Beauclerc