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Pilchards, Privateers, and Strafford Death Reported Abroad
From Cornwall to the Exchange we hear thirty thousand hogsheads of pilchards, with prices down to 7s per hogshead. News recounts privateering near Jamaica and Gibraltar, naval orders for new invalid companies, and the death of Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford. Reports of Dutch ships seized, French actions at Cadiz and Bourdeaux, and Kouli Kan’s mass executions in Delhi underscore a turbulent imperial scene with fleet and army expansions planned for spring.
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St. Tames’s Street
Cockburne
Cornwall
War Office
Poland
Warsaw
Jalt
Wentworth Castle
Yorkshire
Thomas Wentworth
Earl of Strafford
Wentworth
Woodhouse
Stainborough
Smith
Crawford
High Court of Admiralty
Do&ors
Bourdeaux
France
Garonne
Seiz
Madrid
Don Lewis
Sabine
Morris
Gibraltar
Carracca
Bristol
Corke
Cadiz
Downs
Jamaica
East-India Company
Persia
Kouli- Kan
Deli
Kouli Kan
Severa
Empire
Tissilewife
Admiral Vernon
Madeira
Stubbington
Maugar
London
Leghorn
Port-Mahon
Board of Admiralty
Ordnance Office
Tower
His Majesty
Leeward Islands
Chelsea
Imand of
Scilly
John Jones
Kington Upon Hull
Montagu
Ersfield Hall
Cour ‘Ty of Strafford
Harry Grey
Earl of Stampford
St. Joseph
Sparifa
Spithead
Sebastian
Barbadoes
de Enfield
Rhymes
Pertog
Sutherland
Lord Raymond
Castle
West
Portsmouth
Lisbon
N.S
Romney
Newfoundland
Hollard
Angria
Great Britain
Ireland
Electorate of Hanover
Miporea
Tower of London