Carrack ship hidden treasure and Dublin robberies reported
Letters from Kinsale note three casks of double pistoles and wrought plate found in a captured Carrack. Longford reports the Widow West of Weststown robbed at night with family shot and wounded, robbers fleeing with valuables. Dublin letters recount prison yard fires, escapes, and executions, plus a privateer capture near Cape St Vincent and a Gibraltar voyage with prize crews. Also reports a Cavan marriage with 6000l fortune and a Dublin lawyer’s death.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kinsale
Longford
West
West’s-town
Span
Mr. West
Dublin
Gibraltar
Poultney Pri‘vateer
Purcell
Polebeg
Bay of Biscay
Spain
Portugal
Gaskales
Cape St. Vincent
Cape
Spanish Sea
Port News Arrival and sailings from several ports
Shipping news lists arrivals at Falmouth Liverpool Deal Dover Gravesend and Dublin from Plymouth Virginia Boston Zante Lisbon and Genoa. Outward-bound ships include the Revival and the Prince for Lifton and London. Wages for the Hound ordered at Chatham with a cash and book transfer. Commodity imports and exports noted along with stock prices and a verse to a young lawyer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Port News
Falmouth
Prince William
Guillett
Jane
Catherine
Arnold
Plymouth
Isle of Man
Ball
Prince
Frederick
Lifton
Liverpool
John
Joseph
Virginia
Fool
William
Thomas
Lander
Unity
Thompson
London
Samuel
Hannah
Olive
Southampton
Luce
Guernsey
Oporto
Endeavour
Mignard
Jersey
Deal
His Majesty
Lynn
Gilbert
Grantham
Hale
India
Hill
Dublin
Dover
Fan
Elizabeth
Fuller
Boston
Mediterranean
Durell
Zante
Georgia Packet
M‘cleland
St. Kill’s
St. Remo
Leghorn
Adventure
Gehen
Providence
Casey
John and William
Morris
Greyhound
Stevens
Annunciation
Lisbon
Gaul
St. John Baptist
Spendle
Faro
Foxhunter
Parrot
Genoa
Mary Anne
Wilson
Rotterdam
Christiana Maria
Stean
Stockholm
Hayes
Love
Cork
Haslemere
Webster
Gibraltar
Sheldon
Marshall
Vernon
Bills
Dumfress
St. David
M‘tagegard
London News Roundup of Appointments and Stormy Seas
A London letter from Portsmouth dated January 28 reports Capt Gansell named adjutant of the Second Regiment, with warnings of a 36 gun Spanish privateer offshore. It notes Capt Howde leaves the Court of Directors for Bombay voyage, and mentions deaths and ship losses including the Britannia and a Virginia river incident. A mad ox causes river chaos near Old Swan. a servant drowns after an accident at St Johns Street distillery. Prisoners are listed for hawking untrimmed newspapers in Westminster.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gansell
Fontinae
Portsmouth
London
Howde
Bombay
Wilks
St. John’s Street
Old Swan
Tower-Duck
John Blow
Justice Jones
Eadley Carter
Also Mentioned on This Page
William Stuart
Cavan
Stuart
Trotter
Diocese of
George’s-lane
George Coates
His Majesty’s Court of Kings’s Bench
Ecclesiastical Cours
Justice Bell
Mary Tinman
Justice Frazier
William Eddin
Oxford
the Hound
Chatham
Streights
Dunkirk
Jamaica
Antigua
Ireland
Pott
Mevius
Clodio
London Bridge
South Sea
New South Sea
Bank
Royal Exchange Assurance Sy
London Ditto Rr
Dia
Selt
Amjerer
al Tie Marine Coffee-House
Birchin-Lane
Thomas Murray
Axmirfier, Linnen and Woollen-draper and Chapmany Bankrupt
Robert Kirke
St. Martin’s le Grand
Rogpert Kirxe, Fraker
Marine Coffee
Henry Hooke
St. Martins le ‘Grand
Marine Coffee-Howse
Richard Turner
Samuel Rosinson
Bow-Lane
Marcus Ee Allius Cicero
R. Francklin
Ruff
Covent-Garden
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