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Grand Entertainment at St James by Duke of Cumberland
Tuesday marked the Duke of Cumberland birthday with a grand entertainment in St James's. Ministers and nobility attended, tradesmen, household servants, and attendees at Pall Mall taverns. also notice of Charles Downing Downing Esq, Comptroller of the Customs, dying aged 73 in Red Lion Square and his son Jacob Garrand Downing succeeding in the post. Further reports include Spain England neutrality, Dutch and Spanish trade advantages, and routine courtly dispatches via the Hague. cadiz trade shows English predominance. A coroner’s inquest in Clare Market noted a murder verdict for Mr W. and coastal shipping notes from Dublin.
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Duke of Cumberland
Tephen Poyntz
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King’s Head
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Charles Downing Elq
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Spain
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Marquis de St-Gilles
Coutci
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