Foreign dispatches reveal troop movements and Corsican hostages
Belgrade reports Marshal Wallis preparing fortifications and dispositions for assembling camps, while Turks offer no invasion and forage shortages loom. Paris notes a Baltic voyage for a squadron and local hostages seized in Marseille. Ireland records a major seizure of ninety bags of foreign wool at Shermoore Creek.
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Wallis
Sabarshh
Ratfcha
Peter Waradin
Vienna
Count Wallis
Belgrade
Zwornick
Turku
Pomerania
Juliers
Bergues
Ireland
Shermoore
Mayo
Philip Cox
Conaught
Edmund Nuttervill
Port News Deal May 20 Sailors Pass by Several Ships
The Men of War remain as wind shifts report vessels passing Gravesend on May 20. Salvator, Donaldson, Liddell Miller with crews from Norway and Riga, Philippa Davis Middlebourg and other ships from Riga and Rotterdam are noted. The London Packet, Bri tannia, Vine, Willing Mind, and Willing Mind from Dunkirk appear among arrivals or passes.
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Deal
Wind N.N. E
Gravesend
Salvator
Donaldson
Liddell
Miller
Norway
Thornton
Naimne
John
Bremen
Willing Mind
Boyne
Dunkirk
James Willoughby Chosen Bristol Chamberlain
Bristol May 19 Last Wednesday James Willoughby merchant was chosen Chamberlain replacing James Hollidge Esq who is advanced in years and long held the office for about 28 years with noted reputation and integrity.
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Bristol
James Willoughby
James Hollidge
Shipping and political dispatches from Leghorn to Madrid and London
Letters from Leghorn report seven sail convoy from Antibes with four hundred men aboard including 300 Hussars and ten battalions ready at Antibes for orders. Corsica fields 20,000 foot with supplies, Spain expects galleons at Cadiz end of month and Gibraltar squadron discussions at Madrid. Also reports appointments, trials, and a deadly attack by a chained Martin dog at Cheapside.
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Leghorn
Antibes
San Fiorenzo
N.S
Madrid
Cadiz
Valencia
Gibraltar
Marquess de Villarias
Mediterranean
Theatre Night At Deury Lane And Market Notice In London
Evening performance at the Theatre Royal in Deury Lane titled The Sitra papagem with The Devil to Pay. Also a formal notice by the City of London Committee for Letting City Lands announcing a contract for Portland Stone Curbs for Leadenhall Green Market entrances and inviting proposals.
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Theatre Royal
Deury-Lane
City Lands Leases Noted by Committee in Vine Street
The T2E Committee for Letting City Lands in the Chamberlain's record announces intention to lease multiple lots in Vine Street near the Minories including three messuages and stables in various possessions. A council sitting at Guildhall on May 30 will receive proposals, with further details at the Comptroller’s Office. They also announce leasing out one of the city’s fifteen sea coal meeters on June aqth.
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City of London
Vine-Street
Fosep
Mendes Alvarez
Folin Heald
Peter Crofts
Grovefaid
Peter Fellers
John Crowder
Gillet
Mitchell
Thomas Spencer
Fohn Meacham
Francis Wither
Robert Paradine
Fohn Eacles
Daniel Sell
Richard Sharp
Edward Hogsfile
Council
Guildhall
London
Comptriller
Fune
den. Hamond
Post Office Notice On Lost Bills After Western Mail Robbery
General Post-Office London May 12 1739 informs public that Bills and Notes taken from the Wesern Mail are held by the Peace officer who jailed the thief at Exeter Gaol. Persons awaiting or expecting accounts of bills should inquire at the General Post Office. By order Post-Master General J D Barsurr Secretary.
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General Post-Office
London
Wesern
Exeter
Amsil
General Post Office
J. D. Barsurr
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Holland
Port News
John Warfon
Earl of Rockinghim
Excié
Scotland
Maule
James Maule
Dromoxe
Kingdom of Ireland
Courtman
Poulry
Lee
Bishopsgate Street
Cobham
Surrey
Man
Sieh
Mr. Jones
Bourdeaux
France
London Bridge
Sd. Prem
India
Royal Exchange-Asurance
Ditta
Prem
Eperor
Astronomical School
University of Oxford
John Keill
Royal Society
Henry Lintot
Cross
St. Dunstan’s
Fleec-street
Samuel Wyldb
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