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Royal Court Twelfth Day Observed Amid Mourning
Long London Gazette style notice recounts Twelfth Day at court. King and Princes attend Chapel Royal with heralds and state officers. King makes an offering, choir anthem, and court shows disguising attendance due to mourning. Dukes and Knights in order collars. Hazard games canceled. News also lists naval encounters, ships, privateers, and deaths of notable figures with brief civic notes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lon Odon
William
Henry
Chapel- Royal
Artus
England
Chester
Knights Companions of the Garter
Hazard
Duke of York
Hasting
Gravesend
Milton
Aberdeen
Salath
Monte Christi
Syren
M. M’carty
M'Cabey
Dagerty
Prince Edward
Duke de Choiseiull
Port Paix
London
Watson
Barbadoes
Philadelphia
Newfoundland
Bilboa
Neal
Yarmouth
Lisbon
Wight
Somerset House
St. James’s
Henry Beaucorck
Duke of
Teddington
Stephen Hales
Ales
John Lowth
Middleton Caynes
Buckghamshire
Earl of Winchel
Dublin
Wynance
Camberwell
Fingle
Leatherhead
Elizabeth Dunn
New Prison
John Fielding
Carr
Cheapside
London Gazette
Fan
Conde de Fuentes
Spain
William Pitt
Ely
Charles Cottrell Dormer
Baron Wittorf
Heffe
Middlesex
Hofier and Hatter
Guildhall
Peter Bartholomew Jullian
Christopher Dent
St. Giles In the Fields
Manchester
Ebenezer Milligain
Nottingham
Chapman
Talbot Inn
Derby
James Palethorp
John Grammar
Daniel Titterton
Bread-Streett