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London Port News and Royal Naval Appointments
London gossip notes vessels and officers new posts in the Royal Navy with Captain Robert Man made Commander of the For Man of War succeeding Captain Hercules Baker. Also reports Dolphin rank changes, prison releases at Newgate Marshalsea and progress of the king’s voyage from Holland with Admiral Aylmer in command.
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London
Robert Man
Hercules Baker
Offspring Blackhal
Bilhion
Exeter
Plackburn
Horfy Grenadier Guards
Dixon
New- York
Byerly
Hanover
Holland
Aylmer
Stewart
Preston
Newgate
Marshalsea
Windram
Craw
Cunningham
Scott
Wall
Will. Scott
Ca- Seri
Murray
Grierson
William Maxwell
Peregrine Widdrington
Butler
Swindoorn
James Talbot
Barlow
West
Winchester
Lord Cobham
Cotton the
Fleet
Viscount Townshend
Jaconsb
Spring Garden
Prinze
St. James’s
Savoy
Glaf-Houk-street
Piccadilly
Bank
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