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Dover Privateers and Doverish News Collage of 1746
Dover reports capture of a French dogger privateer by the Raven sloop and another privateer taken by Falkstone. Bristol brings Duke privateer from Lisbon with Jalabert the merchant and royal managers aboard. Ships of force prepare to defend northern coasts as Chatham Blandford Hector and Assistance pay crews to Dec 31, 1746. Northumberland election outcome favors Lord Offulstone by 16 votes amid contest chatter. An arm wound robbery in Tooley Street. Powis ill. Frymer Bonde dies. Ayres AlFORD dies. Portmouth extracts list ships at Spithead, dispatches for Dublin, Flushing, Antigua, Jamaica, Leghorn, and Copenhagen. Market quotes for several stocks and bonds.
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Dover
Beachy-Head
Falkstone
Bristol
Duke
Denham
Lisbon
Jalabert
Royal Family
Chatham
Nore
Blandford
Hector
Northumberland
Fenwick
Lord Offulstone
Lancelot Allgood
Allett
Tooley Street
Southwark
Stockwell
Marquis of Powis
Red-Lyon-Street
Holborn
Spithead
Hampton- Court
Prince Frederick
St. Helen’s
Royal George
Prince George
Invincible
Tilbury
Margate
Chichester
Lyon
Intrepide
St. George
Penzance
Speedwell
Deal
S. W
Winchelsea
Edward and
Mary
Littler
Elizabeth
Howard
Dublin
William
Thomas
Lander
Pool
Friends
Gregg
Flushing
Noble
Antigua
Arundel
Patfey
Brewer
Warren
Woodward
Concord
Blackman
Clarke
Barbadoes
Nairne
Sherburne
Nicholas
Johnson
Jamaica
Neptune
Cole
Scipio
Story
Fabriquer
Blandzal
Leghorn
Copenhagen
Dorset
India
Royal Assurance
London Assurance