Letter from a Factor in Dublin on Wool Export Ban
Dublin to Devonshire correspondents urges speed to stop Ireland wool exports. aged 1748 letter notes scarce wool, large shipments to France, and traders blocking Irish supply. discusses government efforts, market prices, and potential future shipments, with port news from Deal and Dover.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dublin
Devonshire
Woolf
Ireland
Deal
Dover
Caley
Mackay
Berwick
Lisbon
Catharine
Peggy
Ditchen
Yarmouth
Downs
Morison
Gibraltar
Virginia
Dozens of Thousands of Wool Packs Shipped Abroad Debate
The text questions whether 30 to 40 thousand packs were exported instead of 40 thousand stones and argues that Ireland’s merchants push wool exports to Britain’s detriment. It suggests lifting prohibitions to restore trade, warns that harsh measures fail, and notes likely higher wool exports, especially from the West, with Dublin’s small arrivals supporting this.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ireland
England
Deland
Great
Britain
Bifp
Dublin
London Gazetteer and London News Roundup 4th Instant
Reporting from London and Salisbury on government praise, local crimes, ship arrivals and exports, plus stock quotes and theater listings. Notable items include a bevy of incidents from Woolwich to Hackney, a deadly assault, a pistol duel near Salisbury, a box of estate writs recovered, and royal grants elevating Walpole. Also ship cargoes from the Streights, Jamaica, and Pensylvania, with South Sea stock movements and theater performances.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Daily Gazetteer
Phat
Woolwich
Deptford
Thomas Bevois
Surrey
John Heylin
St. Mary le Strand
Middlesex
Sandbury
Week
Cliff
Kent
Gunnins
Paris
Hackney
Richard Howard
Eig
The
South-Sea Company
Charles Holizer
Southwark
Robert Lacy
Mary Philips
Leters
Salisbury
Greenwood
Black’s Fields
Horty-down
Also Mentioned on This Page
Messrs
France
Conaught
Streights
Jamaica
Hambourg
Barbadoes
New-England
Pensylvania
West Indies
London Gazette
Whitehall
Robert Walpole
Order of the Garter
Kingdom of Great Britain
Sitle
Houghton
Norfolk
Walpole
Earl of
Orford
Suffolk
Francis Earl of
Theatre Royal
Drury-Lane
Opy
Covent-Garden
Goodman’s Fields
London Bridge
South Sea
New South Sea
Stackhouse
S. Austen
St. Paul’s Church-Yard
Marine
Birchin-Lane
Prade
Thomas Murray
Axminster
Linnen-draper and Chapman
David Pagen
Deceas
Robert Kirke
New Bears
St. Martin’s le Grand
Reosert Kirke, Broker
St. Alban’s Street
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