Illumination Festival and Royal Orders in Naples
Report from Naples notes three nights of illuminations for St Januarius with a grand Marian decoration in Aguglia Square. The King, guarded by barricades, halted Duke de Popoli and others attempting to pass. On the festival day the liquefaction miracle occurred in the treasury chapel, with artillery salutes and the king ordering prisoners in several castles for misdeeds. Venice news mentions free port benefits and crowded lazarettos due to quarantine. Other dispatches discuss Lorraine cession consequences, the potential Russia Ottoman peace, and Goerde hunting by the British Elector.
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Januarius
Agugita
de Popoli Cantelmi
Duke de Popoli
St. Elmo
Aguglia
Marquess Della Tarza
Pompey Pacolomini
Egge
Venice
France
Lorrain
Falckenstein
Luxembourg
Limbourg
Philpsbourg
Bosnia
Russia
Burial of Nicholas Hope Attorney at Law in Barbadoes
Bridge-town Barbadoes July 4 reports the burial of Nicholas Hope attorney at law and deputy remembrancer of the court of exchequer who died the night before of consumption after a lingering illness. He was a distant relation to Sir Joseph Jekyll master of the rolls. Dudley Woodbridge son to the agent for the south sea company reportedly marries the widow of Dettin brother to the island's president. Sterling per annum is mentioned for context.
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Bridge-town
Barbadoes
Nicholas Hope
Court of Exchequer
Joseph Jekyll
South- Sea Company
Dettin
London letters detail mayoral race and royal state news
From Liverpool letters the mayoral contest is described with Tyzer and Gil dart as candidates. Hanover reports Madam Wholinate ill. London wards plan quarterly precinct lighting duties, each with a collector. Notable incidents include Charles Allanson’s injurious fall, the Spitalfields rioters case, debates in Minehead, and church dissent among itinerant Quakers. Royal preparations at St James and anticipated delays of the royal yachts are noted, along with births, baptisms, a marriage in Leicester-square, and a highway robbery near Colchester.
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London
Liverpool
Alderman Tyzer
Gildart
Hanover
Charles Allanson
William .Allanson
Brentford-Burts
Haily
Spittlefields
Minehead
Somerset
St. James’s Palace
Ken
Fington
St. James’s
Kew
Nore
Princess of Orange
Viscount Malden
Earl of Essex
Paris
Middleton
Golden Square
Thomas
Williams
Jesus College
Oxford
St. David’s
Rangadock
Carmarthenshire
Walter Cooper
Bear-street
Leicester-square
Grovenor Chapel
Hardwicke
John. Hardwicke
Eltham
Kent
Thomas ‘Townshend
Viscount. Townshend
Universit
Cambridge
Cleveland “Court
St James's
Gibbe
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Mars
Holland
Naples
M. Dahlman
Constantinople
Goerde
Great Britain
Zell
Francfort
Prussia
Juliers
Bergues
Country News
Newcastle
Nicholas Fenwick
Matthew Bell
John Traacfon
Robert. Makepeace
William Peareth
John Anderson
George Ord
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