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Fragmentary Early Modern News Digest Highlights
A dated miscellany reports on church procedures, grain export figures, privateers off Hull and Scilly, and ships seized near Bilbao. It notes a Mayday arrival from Naples, a violent storm affecting the West Indies, naval movements from Gibraltar to the Baltic, and parliamentary attendances by titled peers. Details include a Marys privateer action near Cadiz, a capture near Bilboa, and updates from Berlin, Brussels, and London about strategic forces and vessels. The item preserves names like Admiral Haddock and Capt. Pratt, with scattered references to Jamaica, Naples, and the Lower Rhine.
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Pearce
Winchester
Dre Lisle
Wadham Colléze
Oxford
Ganterbury
Benty
Hull
South Carolina
Scilly
Bilboa
Naples
Widdward Islands
Monferratto
London
House of Peers
Duke of
Berlin
Lower Rhine
Brussels
Blanders
France
Iaridaly
Haddock
Gibraltar
Rye Lett
Pegat
Germains
Reneer
Bohemian
Beis
Brabl
Belgrade
M. Dugee
Comary
Sazon Artilery
Prague
Falmouth
Plymouth
Risgett
Ambrose
Cratzé
Rand
Welerschat
Cadiz
Cape Bre
Leghorn
Sava
Manning
St. Remo
Ward of Scilly
Bilbo
Roberts
Exeter
Coamberlain
Netea
Pratt
Antias Ang
Sas Deavin
Navarro
Antibes
Provence
Min
Rimvordes
Vannab
Ayall
Torres
Cedi Creatas
Tobago
Rerfia
Binch
Lenton
Fame
Soemi
New-York