First Stone Ceremony at Capo di Monte Palace in Naples
News from Naples reports the king laying the foundation stone of a grand palace at Capo di Monte and placing a box of gold and silver medals beneath it. Also noted are the queen's recovery, new court appointments, and financial audits of recent fireworks expenses. Nearby dispatches detail military movements in Apulia and Belgrade, a Polish royal birthday celebration, and various European court notices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Capo di Monte
Dresden
Don John Brancaccio
Order of St. Januarius
Bilignano
Cariali
Spinelli
Monteleone-Pignatelli
Castropignano Eboli
Zocoosco
Spain
Sicily
Apulia
Ifeoia
Prince Royal of
Poland
Col
Annonia
Santa Cruz
Barbary
Amuley- Alachmad-Muhamet
Taradant
Muley-Mujladi
Tetuan
London
Berlin
Wuitterhausen
Machenow
Potzdam
Baron de Cocceil
Magdebourg
Halberstadt
Minden
Cleves
Prussia
Pomerania
Hungary
Paris A la Main
Theodore
Corsica
Cardinal de Fleury
Fontainebleau
Iffy
Foreign Missions
Naples
Abbe de Ripa
Count Konigsegg
Prince Charles of Lorrain
Belgrade
Port News Update From Falmouth And Nearby Ports
In port news from Falmouth dated September 30 ships arrive and depart. Vessels include the Robert and Mary Pomeroy from Leghorn to Hamburg and the Duck Drake London orders. Other arrivals include the St Joseph from the River Sella to Amsterdam and the Bonnetta Sloop of War bound for Portsmouth. The Chester remains. John and Mary from Bristol arrive, along with the India Merchant from Legnorn. Wind southwest.
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Falmouth
Pomeroy
Leghorn
Hambourg
Duck
Drake
London
Devonshire
Pipe
Yoptham
Mediterranean
Prince Frederick
Lisbon
Dartmouth
St. Joseph
Martin
Sella
Spain
Amsterdam
St. Jago
Cape de Verd
Betty
Anne
Oliver
Cork
Roan
Capt
Young
Portsmouth
Society
Berzil
Biddeford
Mitford
Burteed
Rotterdam
Portugal
Chester
Deal
His
Saunders
Bristol
Burton
Legnorn
Wind S. W
Widows of Royal Navy officers to receive pensions in London
Pay Office notice dated Sept 21 1738 instructs widows of commission and warrant officers to collect pensions and bounty due to August 31 1738. Separate days assigned for captains to gunners widows, carpenters pursers surgeons, with hours 10 to 2, and attendance required in person or receipts via parish minister or churchwardens for absence. Widows in London or near Paris urged to attend or provide required certificates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Royal Navy
London
Paris
South-Sea Company Cocoa Nuts Sale Notice
The Court of Directors of the South Sea Company hereby gives notice they will expose to sale at Threadneedle Street on Thursday October 12 at nine o clock forenoon 1674 sevens bags and Cafes of Carraccas Cocoa Nuts recently imported by the ship Tryton chiefly from the Carraccas and that no more Cocoa Nuts will be put up to sale until February next.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South-Sea
London
The
South-Sea Company
Threadneedle-street
Tryton
Property and leasehold listings near London and beyond
An advertisement offers evera leasehold and freehold estates around Middlesex Edgware Ryegate and Chigwell, with annual values from 80 to 600 pounds. Listings seek a London area estate 100 to 300 pounds yearly, plus Wight or nearby holdings 150 to 300 pounds. Curacy advowsons 20 to 60 pounds annually. Details from Mr John Pillmer at Rainb ow Coffee House Holborn daily mornings and afternoons.
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Evera
Middlesex
Edgware
Ryegate
London
Ile of Wight
Winchester
Chigwell
Tunbridge Road
John Pillmer
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France
Earl of Crawford
Choczim
Ukrain
Vienna
Europe
Joseph Salvador
Francis Salvador
Swaffo
Baron Swaffo
Nieto
Robert Lant
Putney
Str. Thomas’s Hospital
Epsom Downs
Franklyn
Smiling Kate
Richard Ap Hugh
Nantwich
Sam
Charles Brown
Bishops-Stortford
Gedney
the Excise
Takely
Bishops- Stortford
Bath
Edmund Bacon
Thetford
Norfolk
Knightsbridge
Thomas Stapylton
King’s Own Royal Regiment of Horse
Fisher
Smythe
Queen’s College
Oxford
Sc. Beest
Cumberland
Skimpling
East India
Carolina
Theatre Royal
Drury Lane
Grand Volzi
London Bridge
South Sea
South Sea Annuities
New South
Bank
India
Royal Exchange Assurance
Mine Adventure
Qrse
Exchequer
Prem
Ditco
Port News
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