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Portuguese Demands in Papal Court Stir Disputes in 1737
The letter from Downs, aboard the Oliver Galley, reports tensions between the Court of Lisbon and the Holy See over elevating the Patriarch to Cardinal and advancing royal princes, with talks of transferring Papal fiefs and settling Tuscan succession disputes. It notes Italian and Spanish policy friction, debates in Florence, and potential shifts in the Tuscan and Sardinian relations, while warning of broader implications for British trade and neutrality in the Madrid and Utrecht treaties.
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Lifton
Portugal
Lisbon
Father d’Evora
Sardinia
Holy See
Piedmont
Turin
Sacred College
Florence
Palagine
Tuscany
House of Medicis
Great Dutchy
Lorrain
Bar
Stantilius
Pofferton
Prince de Crzon
Advocate Costa
Malecontents
Corsica
Baron de Neuhoff
Leghorn
Jamaica
England
Fleet-Ditch
Virginia
Hyde-Park-Corner
Guarda-Costas
Spain
Seville
Carolina
Britain
Mediterranean
Bay of Biscay
Paul Crape
Great Britain