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Fragmentary Paris Madrid dispatches recount royal obsequies
Yesterday the Mail from France and Poland arrived with news of King Philip’s corpse moved from Buen-Retiro to El Escorial. The Madrid procession included royal church ceremonies, mass, and solemn consignation, while other items note Cortes recognition of Ferdinand as Prince of Asturias and preparations for winter in Madrid.
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Madrid
Buen-Retiro
de Escurial
Knights of the Golden Fleece
Call’d de Tos Monteros
Don Lewis de St.Paul
Coe
Segrias
d’Alcameira
Don John de Camargo
Prince of Asturias
Vera-Cruz
Werc
West Indies
Gulph
Mexico
Aris
Philip
Cortes
Don Ferdinand
Asturias
St. Heletonio
Oétober
Constantinople
Porte
Ragotski
Poland
Augustus
Spain