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Paris Account and London News from the Era
A Paris account notes Mr Laws buying 20 ships bound for the Indies and potential elevation to High Treasurer of France. Marriage linked Duke of Brisac to a rich heiress. Mississippi Company stocks at 190. London reports Indian princes at Lincoln’s Inn Fields Theatre. Duke of Wharton reaches Peerage age. Land Tax Bill passes. Customs to report silk imports from Italy and Europe for three years. Rumor of Lord Stanhope’s France peace mission. Two deaths in wine licence and Hyde Park robbery. MP elected for Kellington. Palatine order for Protestant conduct during street processions.
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Paris
Laws
Indies
France
Duke of Brisac
Mon Seigneur Pecoele
Misisippi Company
London
Missisippi
Lincolns-Inn-Fields
Duke of Wharton
House of Peers
Commons
Italy
Europe
P. S
Lord Stanhope
Spain
William George Creffet
Milford Crow
Hyde Park Corner
Guildhall
Thomas Copplestone
Kellington
Samuel Rolle
Elector Palatine