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Lisbon Fleet News and Royal Parliament Duties 1749
The packet boat arrives with three Lisbon mails amid fleet movements under Admiral Baker. Commodore Crom is set to sail for England in late April. London and Dublin reports detail a Parliament vote on new duties including vellum and paper, cards and dice stock, and brass and metal duties, plus bills for Greenwich Hospital and a lottery to raise funds. A Dublin notice warns of a scandal letter concerning a fictitious murder claim and offers a five pound reward for the letter’s author.
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St. Ives
Resolution
Aales
Lisbon
Admiral Baker
Brazil
Somerset
Boyne
Elizabeth
Warpight
Larmouth
Pembroke
Winchelsea
Port Makgn
Solébay
Ludlow Castle
Haw-Fireship
Grafton
Lynn
Crom
England
Deal
Hovendon Walter
Majesty
Adonmonsh
Centurion
Swillow
Scarborough
South-Sea-Castle
Roe- Buck
Seaford
Yarmouth
Westminster
Scotland
Scot
Clare
Burgage
Great Britain
Royal Hospital
Greenwich
House
Aid
Waolden
Perton
Cork
Viana
Newenham
Dubmain
Her Majesty
Hastings
Bristol
Tyger Gally
Brisiol
Barbadoes
Lope Gally
Lositon
Newfoundland
Belfast
Carrickfergus
Leverpool
Glaspoe
Erwin
Whitehaven
Francis Gally
Londonderry
Stockhol
Ralph Gorey
Thomes Quin
Samuel Walton
Fobm Page
City of
Dublin
St. Andrew’s Church
Dawson
Davis
Dorothy Day
Cog
Pembrok-Court
St. Warbrough’s
Cogin
Dore
Eccleston
Anne Mullally Bay
Anne’ Sinclare
Dorothy Davis
Ralph Gore
Quin
Sam. Walton
John Page
Ste Andrew’s Church
Nothce
Tracy
Ward