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Royal Navy and East India Shipping News From 1723
Monday to Tuesday reports of the Carolina Yacht with the king aboard sailing down the Thames and advisories of East India ships returning home via Portland Road. Notices of stocks, burials, lotteries, horseracing plate hopes at Chesterfield, and new book publications fill a dense, patrol-like page.
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Thames
Tilbury Fort
Gravesend
Portland Road
Eyles
Winter
Lyell
Small
Princess Amelia
Miffer
Worth
Mocha
Barbadoes
Cap Sprigmore
Barbados
Berkshire
Reading
Spe. Cial
Chesterfield
Derbyshire
Wm. Thorpe
S. Botrance
Fust
Rome
Monfieur de Servier
Geo. James Prin
Adel Ropers
S. Bailard
Blue Ball
Little Britain
T. Butler
King’s-head
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