Contested Woollen and Linen Trade Debate In Letters
A lengthy eighteenth century exchange discusses whether Britain can recover the woollen trade without hindering exports, whether a royal registry would threaten liberty, and if linen could supplant wool. The writer insists he supports linen but remains opposed to overreach, urging direct answers to key questions and signaling continued advocacy for national interests.
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Farart
Woolf
Knavi B
Three Kingdoms
France
Great Britain
Ireland
Tam
Dublin May 4 Dragoons to Embark for England
This Day General Ligoniere's Horse departs Kilkenny for England. Two Regiments of Dragoons in the North, also bound for England, will embark there rather than march to Dublin. Friday night Capt. Arthur Belfour of Colonel Irwin's Regiment of Foot died of a fever at Dame-street lodgings. The Rev. Mr. Dawson is presented to Naas living, succeeding the late Rev. Mr. Spring. the living belonged to the Earl of Ross.
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Ireland
Dublin
Kensfington
Ostend
Bruges
Flanders
Robert Rich
Norfolk
PDN
Navy
Jamaica
Port Mahon
Gibraltar
St. Paul’s
Deptford
Loven
Bate
Southwark
Commissioners of Excisé
Excise Office
Court of King’s Bench
Arthur Rawlinson
Westminster
Robert Flower
Beadle
Cheapside
Benice
Falmouth
Oporto
Vigo
Portugal
Holland
Dunkirk
West-Indies
Barbadoes
Theatre Royal
Drury- Lane
Covent-Garden
Military Movements Reported From Newcastle And Gloucester
May 8 dispatches note Col Price s Regiment of Foot leaving Newcastle for Berwick while Cadogan s Dragoons arrive for southward march. A Gloucester report from Bradford Wills cites a fire at Winslow destroying six tenements and a barn with goods lost, plus two houses burned at Ashton Common on the same day.
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Newcastle
Ashton Common
Steeple-Ashton
Trowbadge
Port News Item on Ships Arriving and Departing
Deal May 11 ships sailed for Jamaica Bourdeaux and remained with HMS Loo Easton Empire Galley for Gibraltar. Dover May 11 wind arrivals Betty from Oporto and St John Baptist from Figuera for Hull.
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Port News
Deal
Anne Pink
Clark
Jamaica
Samuel
Williamson
Bourdeaux
Loo
Easton
Paze
Harmond
Gibraltar
Dover
Betty
Smith
Oporto
St. John Baptist
Lindsey
Figuera
Hull
Proposals from Peterborough Electors to MPs Worfrey and Parker
Peterborough constituents press for restoring Parliament frequency and independence, curbing corruption and place-men, and redressing trade decay and taxation. They urge impartial inquiry, punishment of traitors, and unity beyond party lines, while noting military shipments, naval store contracts, and local theatre announcements.
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Eoward Worfrey
Armstead Parker
City of
Peterborough
House of Commons
Ion
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