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AWM.738.002
29 Dec 1737-3 Jan 1738:12,21 (940)
London. October 8. . . By private letters from Spain we
have an account, that the King had not only conferr'd the
honour of Knighthood, and settled a pension on the famous
Farinelli, but had also given him his picture set round with
diamonds valued at above a thousand pound sterling; the
Queen gave him a gold snuff box, with two large diamonds on
the lid of it, and in it a bill for 500 pistoles, and the
Prince of Asturias a diamond button and loop for his hat, of
very great value; and it is said that he is made one of the
gentlemen of the King's bed-chamber.
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