Expenditure on the preparation of the room (Don Quixote Room) where Princess Carlota Joaquina is to give birth. Acquisition of the lace for the baptism towels, the cradle, costs with wet-nurses and payment of the musicians to play Te Deum on the occasion of the birth in the Royal Chapel of the Palace of Queluz:
For twenty-two and a half rolls of fine lace in order to provide the four towels that are to serve for the Baptism of the Royal Person who is to be born, at the price of 3$550 per roll that did not involve any issuing of a receipt to the person who sold them as contraband.July 1798
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Mahogany wood cradle for Royal Service. Master Cabinet-Maker
António SilverioAugust 1798
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Making of the sheets for the beds of the wet-nurses that are to suckle the Royal Person that is to be born.August 1798
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Expenditure made on the preparation of the Room of Our Lady Princess Carlota for her birth as well as for the Royal Person who is to be born.
September 1798
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Payment to the Musicians to play Te Deum in the Royal Chapel of Queluz (…) when Our Lady Princess Carlota Joaquina comes to successful fruition December 1798
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The instructions given by the Patriarch of Lisbon for the saying of prayer in every church of Lisbon for the successful birth and labour of Princess Carlota Joaquina as published in the Supplement to no. 39 of the Lisbon Gazette, 28 September, Friday edition:
LISBON 28 September.
As the pregnancy of Our Lady Princess comes to an end, his Excellency the Patriarch Cardinal ordered that every church in this capital offer up Prayers daily as from the 21st of this month through to the day of HRH’s birth.
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