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Pieces of Eight from Porto Bello in East Indies Trade
A wide scroll of news notes the export of four thousand five hundred ounces of foreign silver by the East India Company for trade in the Indies, French troop movements toward Italy, proposed passage for Imperial troops through Venice, a rumored Polish conflict update, and various naval, political, and social items including a luxury surgical anatomy exhibit and court appointments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Porto Bello
East India Company
Indies
Italy
Naples
Venice
Republick
France
Dantzick
Stanislass
Palatinate
Kiev
Poland
Augustus
Spain
Duke of Grafton
Princess Royal
Prince of Orange
Lady Conway
Jamaica
King
Calton’ Sons
Chovet
Charles Talbor
Hanfell of
Hanfell
Raarthi
Wilitaass
Mediterranean
Europe
Court of King’s Bench
City of
Chester
Robert Grosvenor, Bart
Watkins Williams Wynne
Sach Eterion
Robert Grosvenor
Watkins Williams. Wynne
Horatio Walpole
Lincoln’ Inn
of Wharton
England
Cougs de Montijo