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Four Twenty-Gun Ships ordered to join Commodore Mitchell at Flushing
Admiralty orders fast fitting of four twenty gun ships at Woolwich and Seventy barrels of gunpowder for Admiral Mitchell. Vessels Culloden, Chesterfield, Oxford Man of War sail westward. Several prizes captured or wrecked, sailors and workers die, amid transit of ships and trials at Westminster Sessions.
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Mitchell
Flushing
Woolwich
Admiralty
Culloden
Chesterfield
Oxford
Dartmouth
Torbay
W.N. W
Norwich
Newfoundland
Lisbon
Patfey
Tate
London
Madeira
Vigo
Hill
Faroe
Canaries
Betty
Stephenson
Rotterdam
Burrowhouness
Lowther
Bowman
Virginia
China
Copenhagen
Orkney
Phaeton
Dunkirk
France
The
India Company
Somerset
Tolson
the India Company
Pelham
George Linsey
Tyburn Road
Geneva
Long-Lane
Southwark
Wood-street
Oman
Abraham Harcourt
Harwich
John Marcall
New-Prison
Thomas Burdus
Heffer
Red-Lyon
Holborn
Rachael Knight
Clerkenwell Bridewell
Holland
Newington Town
Newington Green
George Whitmore
Newgate
Old Bailey
Winchester
John Derby
Isabella Hawey
Pool
Dorsetshire
Elizabeth. Jolliffe
Jolliffe
Brampton
Thomas Bishop
Reading
Jedgehiey
Mocs
Gutter-lane
Cheapside
Medley
Pees
Newington
Surry
Parham
Epsom Downs
William Mitchell
Bloomsbury Square
Simon Mitchell
Clerkenwell