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End of Week Dispatches from Spain and Rome News
Naples and Rome relay London and continental tidings. The King of Naples met with ministers after a Spanish dispatch sparked royal council discussions about the Queen of Spain, Farnese inheritance, and Parma Placentia. Reports describe tobacco smuggling precautions and a riot risk in St Louis’s Court area. In Rome, church construction and elite confabulations unfold as soldiers discipline a public quarrel. News from London covers executions, smallpox, a Richmond attack, coroner findings, and financial market updates.
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Spain
St. Ildefonso
Italy
House of Farnese
Nicholas Serra
Salerno
Castropignano
Don Nicholas de Serra
Don Nicholas
Belluga
Castelnuovo
House of Medicis
Parma
Placentia
Tuscany
Rome
Guadagni
M. Ricci
Iris
London
Ehey
Roint
Cameslingue
Iggiosi
Pxt
Annonz
M. Riggioti
Paris
Vani
Republick
Fuenclara
Vienna
Verona
Loredano
Levant
Constantinople
Porte
Russia
William Pulteney
Esg
County of Middlesex
Arriv
Arlington-street
Aix la Chapelle
Walter Jones
Brewer
Butler
St.Thomas’s Hospital
Newgate Market
Samuel Haswell
Newgate
Bonner
Buckinghamshire
Buckingham
Deadman’s Place
Middleton
Toohn Middleton
Aberdeen
St. James’s Church
Diana Gray
Earle of
Stamford