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Embargoes and military orders amid European tensions
A late 1739 Royal News summary reports an embargo on most shipping except coasters, a pattern tent for regiments, and captures of Dutch and Spanish vessels. At home, auctions, rent notices, and obituaries accompany politics, finance, and public works, with Naval budgets and legal measures under discussion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Admiralty
Viscount Shannon
Poland Street
Myer Valdmay
Amsterdam
Bilbao
Bilboo
St. Sebastian’s
Jamaica
New England
Paris
Marquis de la Mina
Chare
Madrid
Braintree
Bocking
Essex
Abby-Sands
Sheriffmuir
Hounslow
Brentford
Plymouth
London
Earl of Deloraine
Scotland
Seaforth
America
Bangor
Madam Walmoder
Commons
Greenwich Hospital
African Company
Colony of
Georgia
Westminster Abbey
Cadiz
Lisbon
Cork
Portual
Spain
France
Hanover Square
Count de Cambis
Order of the Holy Ghost
Litchfield-street
Y Lawley
Thomas Lawley
Spasehill
Shropshire
Clanbrazil
George Bleman Lawley
Dublin
Mitchief
Gallway
Kingdom
Symcox
Naas
Timahooc
Kildare
Enniscorthy
House of Commons
Perirton
Ben. Burton
Anderson Saunders
Ireland
Lord Tutzamors
Charit Signior
Bachiarecli
Mosick