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The Pacquet Boat and Dover News From Jan. 16
A compressed fragment from a 18th century issue recounts ships under sail at Deal and Dover. It notes the Duke of Bolton and the Marquis of Wharton arriving from Ireland, a patent dispute over the London Port Collector post, and stock quotations for South Sea and Bank stocks alongside advertisements for ink powder by Widow Jane Holman and various plays and books being published or reprinted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marwich
Dover
Downing
New-York
Deal
Duke of Bolton
Marquis of Wharton
Ireland
Guernsey
Hardy
Dragon
Scot
Rochester
Fuzzard
Rose
Whitney
Rye
Warwood
Milford
Chamberlain
Shark
Pomeroy
Lack
Prince
Portman Seymour
Leicester Fields
England
Charles Holman
London
Jane Holman
Red-Lyon-street
White Hart. Inc
Southwark
Arros
Macy
Mr. Taverner
Theatre Royal
Drury-Lane
Fryar
B. Berington
Cross Keys
Temple-Bar
Cogrant
Isancols Newton
Strand
Church of England
Church of Bogland
J. Roberts
Warwick- Lane
Scotland
Fowler
Gloucester
H. Daventer
Bolton
DeCockburn
Pucairo
Alfy
Europe
House of Lords
John Fenwick
Lord Somers
Earl of Halifax
Mre.Addison
Manly
B. Curl
Dialana
J. Pemberton
Fleetsttreet