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Court News and Maritime Dispatches Amidst Royal and Global Affairs
Reports from court include a gracious reception for the Harlot Oxford and Mortimer at Windsor and a Duke of Newcastle dinner. Admiralty grants protection to masters of collier and fishing boats, while fires prompt a £1,000 bounty for Tiverton and Blandford sufferers. Dutchess of Wharton travels to England. Henrietta Howard resigns from the Bed Chamber. Sir Charles Wager leaves for Hamp ton Court. Dispatches detail ships from Turin to China and St Helena, with many vessels and crews reaching Canton and the Downs. Cargo lists note silks, callicoes, tea, and other goods. The Kingston chapel is to be replaced by a charity school, Jenkins’s Affair goes to the King, and a new styptic invention is promoted. Cadiz letters report distress from flotilla seizures, and sixteenth Sail of Spanish ships are mentioned.