Monarch appoints Philip as High Admiral at court
Yesterday from Holland and Madrid reports Prince Philip named High Admiral of the Monarchy with orders to sea officers. The prince wore a sea-officer uniform as the King presented him with a diamond staff, while the Duke de Montemar received fresh marks of royal favor. The news item notes court ceremony and honors for birthright among Spanish nobility.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Don Philip
Duke de Montemar
Spain
Italy
Petersbourg
Petersbourg, April 2. We Have Receiv’d Here A Copy of the Grand Vizir
Konigrego
Czarina
Turky
Porte
Black Sea
Russia
Ratisbon
Vienna
Rhine
Fort de l’Epilles
Fort Khel
Empire
Wars, Wages, and Widowhood Endnotes From Ireland
Londonderry March 31 reports the death of John Wright once a Pikeman in 1641 and noted his long life with tales of past wars and crafts including a spinning wheel and a coffin used as a cupboard. Cork April 1 records the death of Rev. Loyd parish minister of Bantry. Dublin April 9 notes the death at 72 of Mrs Dorothy Rawdon aunt to Sir John Rawdon. Townsfolk also hear an account of a large galley under Moses Davis sailing from Waterford.
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Ireland
Londonderry
John ‘Wright
Cork
St. Barry’s
Mr. Loyd
Banty
Dublin
Jaft
Dorothy Rawdon
John Rawdon
Moses Davis
Waterford
Dashwood genealogy and marriages fill London gossip
Early this morning Richard Dashwood Esquire was carried from his Grosvenor Street house for interment in Banbury Oxfordshire in a family vault. The piece notes Dashwood as the last surviving son of Sir Robert Dashwood and Penelope Chamberlayne, with two sons by Elizabeth Lewis, and reports on numerous forthcoming marriages and society events across London, including the Earl of Darnley, Lord Gower, and various aristocratic matches. It also covers parliamentary elections, naval appointments, and tragic drownings linked to river and maritime accidents, reflecting broad social, political, and maritime concerns of the era.
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Grosvenor Street
Richard Dashwood
Banbury
Oxfordshire
Robert Dashwood
Penelope
Thomas Chamberlayne
Elizabeth
Thomas Lewis
Stanford Hall
Nottingham
Isine
Collyer
Croydon
German Pole
Radburne
Derbyshire
Efy
Jodrell
Chancery-lane
Craddock
Yorkshire
Henry Courtenay
William Courtenay
Bart
Miss Bathurst
Lord Bathurst
St. James’s Square
Barnardiston
Arthur Barnardiston
Brightwell
Suffolk
Coventry
Earl of Euston
John Neale
John Bird
Stamp-Office
Leicester
George Beaumont
Deceas
James Winstan
Admiralty
Matthew Mead
Mead
Havannah
Spain
Woodburn
London
Lancaster
Carlingford
Ireland
Jourro Elizabetha
Nanning
Hamburgh
Oporto
Harwich
Leadenhall-street
Henry Gough
Josias Wordsworth
Pomroy
His Majesty’s Yard
Deptford
West
Antient and Honourable Society of Free and Accepted Masons
Devil Tavern
Temple Bar
Earl of London
Lord Crawford
Lord Welms
Lord Hume
John Ward
Robert Lawley
George Grame
Earl of Darnley
Fishmongers Hall
Holland
Deptford-yard
Woolwich
Purfleet
Sea Nymph
Scarborough
Burroughs
Hungerford Market
Greenwich
Gravesend
London Bridge
Tts
Also Mentioned on This Page
Arriv
Madrid
Leghorn
Lisbon
West- Indies
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