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Notable Appointments and Seizures Reported in London and Ports
Yesterday price Bennett was appointed Surveyor of the Window Lights in Nottinghamshire replacing the deceased Marshal. William Fletcher named Inspector of the Customs at Lynn in place of Webster. Barbadoes letters note death of Martin Lucas, a leading planter and merchant. Noon and Smith seized numerous French gloves and lace at Lambeth. An Admiralty trial reviewed the French ship St Anne and St Rit te which, after capture by a Spanish privateer, was retaken near Plymouth and condemned as royal property. Martha Browse, from Newfoundland, taken by a Spanish privateer off Portugal, then retaken by an English frigate and brought to Oporto. A notice correcting the death of Hutchins.
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Price Bennett
Lords of the Treasury
Nottinghamshire
Marshal
Deceas
William Fletcher
Lynn
Webster
Barbadoes
Martin Lucas
Noon and Smith
Lambeth
Henry Penrice
High Court of Admiralty
Doctors Commons
St. Anne
St. Ritte
England
Confyn
Newfoundland
Portugal
Oporto
Hutchins