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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Replying to @rain_later @caitlinrgreen and
That report from Daily Post (London, England), Monday, April 20, 1730; Issue 3302.
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Replying to @rain_later @caitlinrgreen and
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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Replying to @rain_later @caitlinrgreen and
And then in Canterbury, Dover, Portsmouth, and Pool [sic] in October/early November. (Various sources.)
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Replying to @rain_later @caitlinrgreen and
I might have to go looking for these folk at some point!
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Replying to @rain_later @Confusezeus and
Oh, this is fabulous! Thank you for all this — I'd be fascinated to hear more of them if you do pursue! :)
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Thanks to this, have now got a record of their presence in Penzance, Cornwall, where the 'prince' is named as 'the Prince of Chesroan Abu Gemblat Hassar Abaisci, of Mount Libanus, in Syria'. Also looks like went to Norway in 1732?
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Replying to @caitlinrgreen @Confusezeus and
Chesroan is Kisrawan, a district of Mt Lebanon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keserwan_District … Gemblat surely is Jumblatt, but that's more than a little confusing: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Fi_CThWrKCAC&pg=PA219&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false … Hassar looks like a typo/misunderstanding of Hassan to me. Don't know what's going on with Abaisci.
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Replying to @rain_later @Confusezeus and
Interesting! Looking around, it appears he also travelled to Germany, the Netherlands, Poland and Sweden; on the continent, Hassar is transcribed 'Zessar' and 'Nessar'. There also seems to be an 'Asiatic' Prince Elias Abaisci in Europe in 1766, fwiw...
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Replying to @caitlinrgreen @Confusezeus and
I also picked up a reference to someone arriving in Geneva in 1728—not unreasonable to think it might be the same party, given how long they evidently spent in one country (England).
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How fascinating -- a very extensive trip indeed, it seems!
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