Florence Letter Reveals Regent Electress Actions
July 27 dispatch notes the Electress Dowager Palatine acting as Regent continuing pensions and seizing vast treasures of the late Duke. She sends a procuration to France to claim the Duke’s effects. Ginori to Hungary to offer royal compliments. Medici arms replaced by those of the new Great Duke at the palace. A new sovereign asks her to assume regency. new money coins with Latin imperial titles are minted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
France
Charles Ginori
Hungary
House of Medicis
Royal
Naples
Palatine
Prince de Craon
Franciscus U. Magnus
Etruria
Lotharingia
Bari
London News Roundup Mixed With Local Incidents
The column reports various items from London and beyond including the Prince of Wales’s absence at Hampton Court, a planned bridge project at Westminster with plans referred to a royal works official, and anecdotes about dog madness in Sussex. It notes a fishpond robbery foiled by a master and servant, appointments at the Post Office, Harrow School archery results, and deaths and burials in several counties. It closes with smuggling trials, a stand at Bunhill Row, and early reports from Cumberland and the Americas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Pulteney
Prince and Princess of Wales
Bath
Jerusalem
Ripley
Westminster
Battel
Sussex
Low-Layton
Attone
Carleton of
Walsh
King
Colchester
Prince of Wales
Hampton Court
Earl of Essex
Hampton-Court
St. James’s
St. James's
Henry Liddel
Maidenhead
Peter Delme
Ludgerthall
Jens Sawtell
Kent Road
Richard Clarke
Christopher Harris
Sawtell
Harrow School
John Lyon
Cox
Cumberland
Whitehaven
Carolina
Horatio Walpole
the Hague
Welch Pool
Montgomery
George Devereux
Powell
Lord Hardwicke
Powis House
Joe
Georgia
Fe’mnight
Chippingwhcomb
County of
Bucks
Hearne
Thomas Hearne
Also Mentioned on This Page
London
Florence
Vincent
Chelsea
Elizabeth Robinson Lytton
William Robinson Lytton
Giles Heysham
Knebward
Hertfordshire
Cafar Crofts
Nicholas Strode
Thomas Barrington
Lyttons
Anne
Oliver Lord St. John
Rowland Lytton
Giles Heytham
Lytton
Robert Heytham
Pauls Walden
Commissioners of Excise
Croydon
Idle
Southwark
Bunhill Row
York
George
Tyburn
Standford Brook
Turnham Green
Fleet-street
John Drinkwater
Wells
Warwick
King’s College
Covent Garden
Drury
Boston
Jones
Bristol
Virginia
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