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Royal Christmas Day Court Activities and Notices in 1738
The piece chronicles Christmas Day ceremonies at Court with royal attendance, sermons, offerings, and the Sword of State procession. It lists aristocratic movements, court appointments, deaths, marriages, and various notices from St James's and London, including sheriffs, nobility, and local incidents. It also reports on foreign dispatches from Paris, Constantinople, and The Hague, touching on treaties, plagues, and political intrigues.
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Crown and Rolls Tavern
Chancery-lane
Cardinal Wolsey
Symonds Inn
Chancery Lane
Knights Companions
Orders of the Ga
London
Chapel Royal
Hereford
Cuttom
Duke of Manchester
Order of the Garter
Princess of
Orange
Sewarden
Princess of Wales
George Smith
Prince George
Thomas
Geraldine
Spain
Castile
Grenade
Waldegrave
Earl of Waldegrave
St. James’s
William Codrington
Antigua
Stedman
Denvers
Norfolk
University of Cambridge
Caius and Go
Salisbury Court
Aldgate
Smith
Deptford
New Cross
Edward Parker
Excise
City and Liberty
Westminster
William Tayleure
Savile-Row
St. James’s Parish
Paddington
Queen’s College
Oxon
High Court of Chancery
Charles Biggs
Bristol
Petticoat-lane
Newgate
Holland
Scotland
Ireland
East-India
France
London Gazette
Court of St. James’s
Stian
Paris
Couns de Boifneux
Constantinople
Henrietta Casimira
Nassau
Diétz
Hanau
John William
Frifo
Prince of
Saxony
Poland
Prussia
Duke de Chartres
Soiffons
Auvergne
Hague
Luxembourg
Republick
Vienna
M.van Hoey
M. Amelot
United Provinces
Marquess de Fenelon
Russia
Hungary
Empire
Rufsia
Ruffia
Munich