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Petition for Redress on Ship Losses from 1727 Privateer
The following notice petitions the House of Commons for relief to sufferers from the captured ships the Richard Copithorne and the Loyal Galley. It details brutal mutiny and capture by Spanish privateers, delays in restitution, and efforts with Madrid and Seville to obtain damages under Preliminaries and the Treaty of Seville, naming Copithorne and other named claimants and consigning their pleas to Parliament for redress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard Corrisorne
House of Commons
Europe
London Gazette
Spain
America
Richard Copithorne
Messina
London
N.S
Coyithorne
Aiboran
Capithorne
Capithorn
Forcastle
Copithorne
S. Foot
Everal
Gasry
Iviffa
Majorca
Malaga
Burt
Nicolas Holloway
Eighis
M. Vander Meer
States General
Madrid
Charles Wager
Gibraltar
O&ober
Paris
St. Roche
Seville
Loyal
William Pugsley
Leghorn
Marth
Pembroke Hall
Cambridge
Mawson
Landaff
Prince of Wales
Reyner
St. Mary Magdalen
Old Fish-Street
Garnett
Brazen-Nose College
Oxford
Rane-Bow
Northamptonshire
St. Paul's
Guildhall
Alderman Barber
William Benn
Robert Godschall
Wiliam Walker
Westley
Peter Roberts
Alderman Lambert
James Heywood
Joseph Ayliffe
Samuel Sedgwick
Vnomas
Newgate
Matchwick
Dublin
Portugal
France
Barbadoes
Dunkirk