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Royal appointments and marriages listed in diary notes
Chronological entries list Philip Mercier as Painter to the Prince of Wales and Edward Willacre as Borough Court steward in Southwark. It records marriages including Robert Bruce to Frances Blackett, business appointments in Jersey and Bath and Wells, and deaths of Lady Compton and Mr. George Lafcels among others, with parliamentary and church notices across England and Ireland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philip Mercier
Prince of Wales
Edward Willacre
Edward Whitacre
Southwark
Leonard Street
Deceas
Robert Bruce
Thomas Bruce
Earl of
Aylesbury
Frances Blackett
Foeph Hall
Brain
Fames Brain
Tottenham
County of Middlesex
Iain le Hardy
Isle of Jersey
Philip Legeyt
Lady Compton
William Compton
Hartbury
Goucester
Hydes
Hurf
Berks
John Taylor
Aridewell
Bethlehem
Wynne
Bath and Wells
Guido Clinton
Matthew Ducie Morton
Eig
Dusie de Moreton
Treton
Cornwal
Thomas Smith
Thorogood
Catlin Thorogood
Essex
Wareham
Dorsetshire
Joseph Gascoigne
Chiswick