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Siege of Vigo and English expedition items reported
The account notes crates of muskets above eight thousand and brass ordnance stored for ships due in Britain last spring. Lord Cobham organized provisions and levies. many feared people fled to Portugal. Reports mention Marquis de Risbourg near Tuy, several officers, and rumors of Colonel Owen and a Duke of Ormond regiment. Prisoners sent for transportation to America and a court proceeding over a Medley author.
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Great Britain
Cobham
Portugal
Marquis de Risbourg
Tuy
Vigo
Owen
Duke of Ormmond
Valladolid
Lord Cobham
Hewet
John Vanbrugh
Tobias Jenkins
Nich. Dubois
Grinling Gibbors
Richard Godfrey
Inner Temple
Thomas Gery
Prat
Richmond
Earl of Essex
Earl of Rochester
Newgate
America
Marvel
Kettleby
King’s Bench
India
Harve
Dryton
Cays
Adventures of
Telemachus
Johorod
Daylor
Scarron
L*’Escange
Kfop
Tathers
Piatarch
Burkit
Turkifa Spy
Vol. Wilsby