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Invention of Knocks and Mass Boxes Noted in Dover Rut
A letter describes an inventor teaching rustick servants to fashion knocks and private notes to distinguish visitors at a parlour door. It details a set of sounds from beggars to quality Footmen, notes on lighting reserve candles, and a claim of underground teaching. The piece also discusses Christmas box money and a December Rome consistory naming several new cardinals amid papal promotions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
N. B
Tours
Doverrut
Indies
Rome
Acquaviva
del Guidice
Petto
Chevalier de St. George
Monsieur de C2fures
Bourges
Adeuffeur de Malily
Rheims
Monsieur Spinola
Vienna
Montew Bentivoglio
Paris
Monfieur B
Ffu
Archin
Malines