Papal Reception Preparations Reported For Next Spring
Rome and Madrid dispatch on Be nevento voyage to receive the Pope with preparations under way for his spring visit. Ministers urge honours for the Nuncios while Portugal’s affairs move toward a potential truce. Details mix court intrigue, naval movements, and weathered deliberations across Madrid, Paris, and London.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Portugal
Fendortugueze
Vincio
Bichidrid
Takenach
wWasinot ES
Fragmented Odds and Ends From Earliest Known Desire
A garbled excerpt lists a venue in Newport market with a tomy, turvy colord oration by Bacon John’s Co 3 and references to the Kingdom of Darkness. The text meanders through mentions of intelligence, audience, and improvised lines about chimes and Westminster, hinting at a broad, confused theatrical or political pamphlet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oratory
Newport-market
Bacon John’s. Co
Canibei
Bridge subscription scheme and royal officials in London
The article details a proposed bridge project with subscribers to fund construction and toll conveyance to heirs, plus assurances against reassigning tolls. It notes Captain Perry presenting a bridge model, Lord Ripley’s stone-arched designs, and calculations on costs and feasibilities. It reports criminal sentences at the Old Bailey, including theft, sodomy, horse-stealing, and a man burnt in the hand for bigamy, with various officials arriving or hosting events at court or government offices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bank of England
Capt. Perry
Dagenham Breach
Thomas Ripley
Ripley
Minwch
Oyer and Terminer
London
Peter Levee
Featherby
Thomas Vaux
Stephen Burnham
John Clark
Fleet-fiteer
John Bleak Cowland
John Teh
John Oney
Honey
Elizabeth Powell
Anne Norton
Isaac Milton
White-Ghiapél-Bars
George
Gotton
Roger
Johnson
Henry VII
Fisher
Murther
Newgate
Anthony Carroll
Foot Guards
Ockham
Surrey
Robert Walpole
Newcastle
Townshend
Kinski
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Holland
Rome
Paris
Cardinal de Fleury
Count Zinzéndorf
Vienna
Duke of Bournonville
Madrid
Alquin
John Alden
Faro
Albion
Townsend
Leghorn
Sarah
Lawrence
Jamaica
Skillimore
Zant
Rebecca
Samuel Melburn
Virginia
Somerset
Spark
Antigua
Mary ‘Angelita
Newfoundland
Havre
Burys
Richard Pike
Lisbon
Footham
Samuel
Everdon
Barbadoes
Dartmouth
Yetterday
Abraham Dumeresh
Deal
Goodwin Sands
East India
Loo
Gravesend
Charles
Mary
Curtis
Rotterdam
Chandos
Tobias Jewers
Wandsor
James ‘Allen
John
William Nutman
Otleb
Putneys
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