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Shipping News and Royal Notices from 1720 Shore Records
A dense 1720 London sheet reports naval command on board the Sandwich Prince Frederick and Dorsetshire with Rear-Admirals. It lists South Sea Stock and Bank prices, burials, christenings, and a March Post Office notice by Cornwallis Craggs and Marshalls. Advertisements promote elixirs, medicines, and a runaway youth reward with multiple local vendors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W.B
Norris
Sandwich
Hofier
Prince Frederick
Hopton
Dorsetshire
General Post Office
London
Charles Lord Cornwallis
Fames Craggs
His Majesty
Treasury
Nich. Lechmere
Ralph Allen
Bath
Somerset
England
Wales
Berwick Upon Tweed
Pormartre
Henry Marshall
Southgate-fiver
Winchester
Southampton
George By'ney
Winchetlery
Mr. Gadwin
Wincheer
Liberty
Haze Bell
Prince’s Street
Lester-Fields
Henry Clark
Chipping-Norton
Oxford
Anne
Earl of Sunderland
Ma .de Senneterre
Lincoln’s Inn Fields
John Norris
Hofer
Bates
Adi Suffolk
Monmouth
Wepowlk
Nottingham
Foizabeth
Frederick
Buckinphans
Medway
Revaur Inn
Dartindtth
Sit Eaton
Boy i
Mae _ Clinton Bedford adler
Charltod
Kington
Warwick Williams
Gosport Delaval