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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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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They were fundraising after some form of invasion of Mt Lebanon by the neighbouring Ottoman pashas ('Bassa's')—at Leeds the town Corporation gifted them twenty guineas and sent them on their way to Pontefract.
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No doubt the same 'two Syrian Princes just arrived by Way of Holland' for whose entertainment 'the last new Tragedy, call'd, The Rival Father, or The Death of Achilles' was performed at the New Theatre in Haymarket in April 1730.
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That report from Daily Post (London, England), Monday, April 20, 1730; Issue 3302.
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Other reports have them moving from Yorkshire to Coventry and Warwick... Universal Spectator and Weekly Journal (London, England), Saturday, August 29, 1730; Issue XCIX
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