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Tea and Wool Trade Tensions Spur Seizures and Shipping Moves
Letters and reports from Dartmouth to Gravesend detail seizures of wool in Southwark, questions over export intent, and a captain capturing a ship laden with wool goods bound for Lisbon. The writer argues such actions bolster English clothiers while opposing Irish exports to France. Maritime notices list ships sailing to Plymouth and Havre, with prevailing easterly winds and naval patrols.
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Galverteer
Hell
Woolf
Southwark
Ireland
Lisbon
England
Portugal
Frith
France
Dartmouth
Scipio
Grant
Mary
Wally
Joyce
Penny
Te el
Plymouth
East-India
Channel
Dachee
London
Havre
Cowes
Sylvia
Macauly
South-Carolina
Amsterdam
Carolina
Portmoth
Tagus
Clemenits
Braganza
Lyon
Déal
Downs
Lenox
Gravesend
Ivf Ankerman
Norway