Acapulco Trade and Manila Galleon System Described
A colonial-era description explains Acapulco as a sea port connecting Spanish America with the Philippine Islands. Two ships depart yearly for Manila and return with cargoes including silver and East Asian goods. The voyage supports heavy trade, employs many in Mexico, and features large armed galleons capable of fending off pirates.
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America
Acapulco
Manilla
Spanish America
Philippine Islands
East India
China
Panella
Lima
Mexico
Mama
Rogers
Cooke
Sio Nven
Acapatco
Porto Bello
New Spain
Cusco
Peru
Chili
Galleon Fleet And Flora Trade Of New Spain Items
The passage describes annual Manila galleons sailing July to Acapulco by December to February, returning for Manila by June, making the voyage about a year. The Galleons, eight men of war with 50 guns, carry military stores and general merchandise for private account, facing dangerous conditions. The Flora fleet, partly royal and partly private, sails to Vera Cruz in New Spain with 16 ships of 460 to 1000 tons, led by captains, admiral, and patache on the king's account.
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Manilla
Acapulco
Marth
Peru
Galleovt
Perra Firma
South Sea
Mexico
Vera Cruz
New Spain
Patache
Pitinace
Try For Fanny Blooming Fair From Pindus Bow
Fragment reads like a poetical tribute to Fanny with archaic phrasing and garbled lines. It mentions Siluria and Gambrian references, suggesting a lyric or ode style. The text appears as a damaged translation or transcription from Welch origin.
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Hole
Pindus
Lilly
the Dale
Fanny
Cambridge Degree Recipients at New Trinity College Listing
Cambridge on January 17 announces Friday’s degree ceremony for Bachelor of Arts at New Trinity College with a long list of fellows and colleges including Trinity St Johns Peterhouse Caius Sidney Magdalen Emanuel Pembroke Bene’t Catherine Clare Wardle and others. The names cover many colleges and hundreds of attendees reflecting a traditional academic procession.
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Cambridge
Trinity College
Hale
Bosworth
Celtman
Jennings
Law
Martin
Bains
Sawerby
Lloyd
Frere
Mair
Howes
Néate
Swatman
Neville
Wilgrets
Oliver
Broadley
Wiliams
Brooks
Lincoln
Wilkes
Cooke
Atkinson
Heald
Parry
Pulley
Airlie
Eliley
Parnell
Bayley
Wolfe
Wrratheri
St._John’s
College
Chintian
Dobson
Parchert
Millers
Stanley
Williams
Butchery
Huster
Kynaston
Ferry
Thorold
Auberton
Hibjam
Salmon
Cory, Dade
Dowbigen
Sidney College
Theltlewaite
Whitehead
Magildlen College
Burnell, Batley
Foster
Settle
Green
Emanuel Colleges
Gill
Lamb
Hartley
Humphrey
Watkinson
Hodges
Fen
Jun
Poftlewaite
Hobbs
Hutchings
Thompson
English Channel Tales and Norwich Memorials
From Weymouth and Norwich come fragmentary reports of wartime events. An English captain and a lady arrived from Jersey via St Malo, describing scant French force readiness and prisoner exchanges, with a fatal prison breach tale. Norwich notes a February 14 1797 sea victory memorial display honoring Admiral St Vincent and Nelson, with a sword presentation and heraldic device by Horatio Nelson’s Norfolk kin.
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Weymouth
Jersey
St. Maaroes
England
Norwich
Don Xavier. Winthuysen
Earl St. Vincent
Horatio Newson
K.B
Norfolk
Sir Horatio Nelsony
Ninham
Crowded Leith Harbour Echoes Busy Winter Shipping
Edinburgh January 18 Leith Harbour is crowded with ships awaiting births as open winter allows uninterrupted North Sea navigation. A Glasgow Bridgegate fire tragedy leaves a woman burnt to death alone in her home. Barcaldine mourns John Gregor aged 108, a Killicrankie battle veteran who served in the Scots Brigade and lived with family for decades.
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Edinburgh
Leith
North Sea
Bridgegate
Glasgow
Herseff
Barcaldine
John
Gregor
Killicrankie
Shriff
Nuir
Holland
Court of King's Bench Sittings Before Lord Kenyon
In a case to recover money paid to the defendant for illegal insurances the plaintiff, recently jailed for sending a letter to a licensed lottery office in Bone Street threatening action unless paid, wins a verdict for the amount received by the defendant. Lord Kenyon condemns illegal insurances as a great societal evil and urges judges and juries to curb the practice.
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State Lottery A
Capital
Megrs
Swift and Co
Ea Zr
Soc
Whaler
Ilegal Insurances
Northail
Bonetreet
Lord Kenyon
Hoto
Storm wrecks three American ships near Texel coast
In January a Minerva under Captain T Cutts was driven ashore on the South coast of Texel amid a tempest, all hands perilously stranded. The Favourite, Captain Tomisox from Philadelphia to Hamburg, was also driven ashore with loss of several crew. A third American vessel lost its masts and stranded on the island’s West end. the crew remain aboard with little hope of rescue as winds do not abate.
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Minerva
T. Cutts
South Coat
Texel
Philadelphia
Tuomisox
Hambureh
Burglary Prosecution At Dockhead Involving Clarke and Martin
Police at Union Hall report Abraham Clarke Thomas Martin Frames Stevens and Redmayne charged with breaking into Meilrs Fell and Steeles at Dockhead and stealing wool and beaver skins valued at about one hundred pounds sold by Redmayne to Walcup. Stevens bargains for Crown. Clarke and Martin committed for trial. Redmayne accessory. extra charges linked to a lighter robbery.
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Abraham Clarke
Thomas Martin
Frames Stevens
Redmayne
Meilrs’Fell and Steeles
Dockhead
Walcup
Cage
Cooper
Stevens
Clarke
Martin
Fenton
Redamayne
Fourpence daily pay reform for sheriffs alters ses sions attendance
Treasury notification prompts counties to limit 4s per day to the 12 senior justices at Quarter Sessions, replacing pay to all attendees. The 4s rate dates to Richard I with barons exempt, amid discontent. Also reports the death of Worcester banker Sprrspuxy and a Norwith child fire incident with hospital prognosis.
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Richard I
Sprrspuxy
Worcester
Norwith
Aring
Fresh Siespury Anti scorpurie Drops in Soho Square
Fresh supplies of Siespury's Anti scorpurie Drops from Dife pensary in Soho square arrive weekly through Mrs B Newbery London. The remedy claims relief for obstructed perspiration indigestion or impurities of the blood with cures for scurvy gout leprosy ulcers rheumatism and more. Bottles priced ss and 1s 2s with directions detailing diet and 60 cures attested by surgeons ministers and others.
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Hornsby and Co
Cornnel
Opposte
Roya Exchange
London
Myfirs
Crewman and Son's
Exeter
Thomas Billinge
Liverpool
Thas
Rapital
Horse and Co
Pritts
India
THE
WELCH
Afric
Phoebus
Fariny
W. D
Glamorganshire
Garriita Jones
Pennant
Montgomeryshire
Montgomery
Severn
Thore
Court OF
King’ S Bench
Fellows
Wheeler
Amsterdam
Union Hall
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