Lisbon and Rome News in Dustin Gazette March Entries
Dispatches from Lisbon report the Brasil Fleet of 15 merchant ships arriving at the Tagus after an 81 day passage with gold duff, crusadoes, silver, elephant teeth, sugar, hides, and shoes for private men. Cardinal Spinola in Rome urges the Empire to renounce investiture rights and restore them to the Holy See. Basil notes a Padua scholar renouncing Catholicism for Protestant faiths. Madrid notes stores of provisions and arms for a Moorish relief operation at Doust and changes to linen imports for New Spain. Paris reports Count de Baviere's Spanish honours and a royal reception near Bayonne with a sermon by Abbot de Mott sardinal de Rohan.