I don't suppose anyone knows who the 'Prince of Mount Lebanon and his retinue' might be who were in St Ives, Cornwall, in 1730? Is this Haydar al-Shihab of the Mount Lebanon Emirate (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Lebanon_Emirate …), and if so, what was the context? Just curious :)
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Andrew Arsan at Cambridge may be able to assist. Or
@rain_later? It may have been one of the Shihab amirs, who had relations with the British. The Ma'anids, of course, had Fakhr al-Din, who spent five years living in Italy in the previous century. -
Another person to ask is
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Fascinating and have no idea who it could be. Maanids were extinct by then and this was after the battle of Ain Dara. Could of course be any number of 'princes' not necessarily 'the prince' any more clues?
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Thank you both :) I'm afraid the full entry from the town expenses is simply this: "1730 - Paid for horses to carry the Prince of Mount Lebanon and his retinue.... £1 10s 0d" Nothing else recorded, so far as I can tell...
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Intriguing. Two princes said to be of Mount Lebanon evidently travelled throughout England in the year 1730—there are multiple references in publications in Burney's Collection of C17th/18th Newspapers (
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Only one entry that I've found actually names them: Universal Spectator and Weekly Journal (London, England), Saturday, August 22, 1730; Issue XCVIII. This calls them 'Joseph Abaisci and John Hanner'.
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It also gives the fullest account of their travels: 'Hull, Beverley, Scarborough, Malton, Thirsk, Durham, Newcastle, Richmond, Northallerton, and York' before reaching Leeds, from where the US&WJ's correspondent was writing (11 Aug 1730).
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They were Maronites, and were travelling with the permission—'a Pass under the Sign Manual'_ and assistance of the king (at that time George II):pic.twitter.com/baFbwrR3Qy
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