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Lost Merchant Manhunts for Deserters and Reward Notices
A fragmentary broadside lists a merchant in Eustace Street and assigns rewards for locating deserters from the Hon. Brigadier Da Burgay's Regiment of Foot and Captain Samuel Stanes's Company. Details include Thomas Eastop aged 22, 5 feet 8 inches, born in London, a peruke maker. John Lock born in Cambridge, a weaver, 28, 5 feet 8 inches. John Richards born at Long Sutton, Somersetshire, tall with pimples. Notices direct informers to Kilkenny Castlecomber or Archer in Dublin for 40 shillings reward.
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INSON
Golde Lane
Trixoell
Gus
Andere
John Barclay
Eustace’s Street
Nenagh
da Burgay
Regiment of Foot
Samuel
Stanes
Thomas Eastop
London
London, By Trade A Peruke-maker and Likewife Deferred At ‘the Faitie'gime
Qustof
Apperaid
Regimeéne
John Lock
Cambridge
John Archer
Dublin
Benjamin Diakesi
Pany
Thomas Howards
Foot John Richards
Long Sutton
Somersetshire
Kilkenny
Castlecomber
Cathe