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Navy Commissioner's Petition For Convoy And Italian Trade Details
A Petition to the Lords of the Admiralty seeks a convoy for merchant ships bound for Lisbon and Oporto. The article reports on ordnance at the Office, East India Company sale plans, fleet movements under Sir John Norris, new ships and yachts readiness, and various naval and criminal notices including a Bristol murder trial, shipboard discoveries, and local crime reports along with commodity arrivals from Cork, Naas, Dundalk, and Wexford.
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Navy
Aldborough
Suffolk
Lords of the Admiralty
Lisbon
Oporto
East India Company
Normanton
Harlingfield
Deptford
Broad-street
Nore
Dunkirk
Holland
New-York
Sir John Norris
Ordnance Office
Charlotte
Portsmouth
Pott
West India
Rentone
Qyrto Bello
Anne Hervey
Leicester Fields
Goodier
Bristol
John Dinley Goodier
Islington
Arthur Stone
Serjeants Inn
Fleetstreet
James