Intrigues and Inquisitions Across Lisbon and Constantinople
Reports from Lisbon on the Royal Academy of History reading memoirs and a dramatic auto da fe at the Dominicans church with 39 men and 19 women convicted of Judaism and other crimes. A Spanish Count spoke to the King on the Infante birth as Azazel Telles de Faro retires to a Carthusian convent prior to Goa trade maneuvers. A merchant from Lemberg describes Ottoman–Russian maneuvers, the Donau convoy, and Austrian trade aims. In Fernandina, Henry Walsh is seized. Captain Burke, pirate of Madagascar, is accused of brutal acts and piracy in St Domingo, ending in arrest and trial.