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Maritime Notices and Royal Navy Housing Plans
Ships arrive and depart from London and nearby ports with cargoes from Virginia, Carolina, and Nevis including the Susanna, Fox, Squire, and Anne. Marriages reported between the Marquis of Winchester and Lady Anne Vaughan. Naval build plans reveal two third rates and one fourth rate ships refitted for trading to the Indies, plus Oxford granting MA to Reverend Laurence. Stock prices show fluctuations. pardons granted to 54 convicts to plead at Old Bailey. Advertisements describe a brick house for sale and a crane-neck chariot sale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cowes
London
Jamaica
Hannah
Plymouth
Blessing
Chester
Rotterdam
Richard
Mary
Fox
Squire
Streights
Anne
Nevis
Susanna
France
Marquis of Winchester
Anne Vaughan
Danter
Earl of Carbery
Marquis of Wincheser
University of Oxford
Laurence
Newgate
Bank
India
Kent
Eaglestone
Knight's Coffee
Essex-street
Sam. Philips Mercer
Old King‘s Head
Henrietta Street
Covent Garden