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Naval dispatches and court notices from the era
Excerpts describe a French letter fragment, ship movements including the Seaford and Phoenix, shipwrecks near Londonderry, and routine court actions in the King’s Bench with wills, trades, and assaults. Notices include births, marriages, and deaths across London and Wales, plus circut schedules for judges and sheriffs in several counties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gosport
Spithead
Seaford
East Indies
Phoenix
Catherine
Grace
Cade
Saloe
Holland
Cherburgh
Wallworth
M‘couland
Philadelphia
Londonderry
Shouldham
Phillips
Newtéundland
Pool
Colman
King’s Bench
Lincoln’s Inn-Fields
Strand
St. James’s Street
South Wales
John Williams
William Whitaker
Ais Majesty
Radnorshire
Presteign
Breconshire
Brecon
Glamorganshire
Cowbridge
North Wales
Davies Barrington
James Hayes
Merionethshire
Bala
Carnarvonshire
Conway
Anglesey
Beaumaris
Chester
John Morton
John Skynner
Earl
Montgomeryshire
Denbighshire
Wrexhaw
Flintsiire
Mold
Cheshire
Lord Massfield
Furlice Gould
City of York
Yorkshire
York
Lancashire
Lancaster