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Fragmentary 1730s Notices and Trade Dispatches In London
A collection of late 18th century style notices and shipping intelligence. Items include a marriage between Sir Michael Awton Kat and Lady Margaret Oningsby, a live crocodile exhibited in London, government accounts on payments to captors of Spanish ships, and militia and naval deployment orders. Entries cover ship arrivals at Dublin, Wexford, Cork, and ports along the English Channel with cargo notes, prices, wheat and barley rates, high water timings, and numerous vessel movements in early February including collier ships, beef and spirits consignments, and imports from Ireland and England.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Michael Awton Kat
Bath
Parment
Grantham
Margaret Oningsby
Earl of Oningsby
Anapolis
America
New York
Custom House
Aldergate Street
Aeterranean
Committee of Ways and Means
Admiralty
Spain
Cadiz
St.Christopher’s
Liett
Philip Pearson
Sherriff
Robert Major
Thoréof
Cavan
Smitheld
Belfast
Disburn
Pacquet
England
Dublin
King’s End
Mary and
Catherine
Isle of Adan
Olive
Whitehaven
West Indies
St. Dominick
Wexford
Britain
Flower
Mary of
Hester of
Swanzey
Wicklow
Mary
Dungarvan
Hope
Newry Lome
Maderas
Virginia
Francis
Bristol
Portmouth
Rotterdam
Stephy
Newnham
Cheptow
William and
George
Chester
Bridge Water
Pritty Betty
Lively
Warden
London
Homer
Holyhead
Kinsale
Anne
Race Horse
Fishernia
High Water
Friends Adventure
Plymouth
Ballat
HighWater