Wind and Ships Bring News From Across the Ocean
A fragmentary diary notes colorful phrases about a Maft and a madgim, with references to a Frenchman and plundered money. It lists ships arriving in English ports including Windsor, D Abbadie, Ilchester, Nancy, Susannah, Gale, Teacher, and Lydia from Virginia, Brazil, Lisbon, Leghorn, Fort St. David, and Bristol during July.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madgim
Tramirat
Butt
Wind S. W
Cholwnondéley
Leghorn
Windsor
Portfield
Virginia
Whitehaven
Eldridge
London
Oporto
Lydia
Merryweather
Bristol
News from Lisben and Navy Prizes Amid War News 1748
A lengthy 1748 column reports Lisbon mail arrivals with details of the Portfield from Mocha and the Ilchester from Bombay, plus notices of privateers and prize captures. It records royal health, a South Sea Company dividend, troop discipline, transatlantic shipping, and several local incidents, including storms, drownings, accidents, marriages, and deaths. It concludes with a proposed 1749 government lottery to raise 400000 pounds and analysis of its odds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
France
Lisbon
Portfield
D’ Abbadie
Mocha
Brazils
Ilchester
Todd
Bombay
Bengal
King
George
Walker
South-Sea Company
Blue Regiment of Horse
Earl of Hertford
Cowes Road
Rotterdam
Philadelphia
Brentford
Leverpool
Carolina
Cape Clear
Roft
Houston
Dove
London
Virginia
Industry
Smith
Marblehead
Spain
Hampton
Tannett
Newbery
Leeward
Martinico
Lydia
Mary
Babson
Co Boston
St. Thomias’s Island
Alderman Blachford
Ile of Wight
Henry Marshal
Knt
Alderman Benn
Alderman Alsop
Alderman Rawlinson
Lords of the Treasury
Illing
Ile of Man
Earl of Lincoln
Hammond
Burbridge
Bedford
Ranelagh Gardens
Ones
Handel
Chichester
Government Service Proposal Sparks Approval Hope
A brief editorial note hopes approval for a government service measure that does not incur interest or raise the national debt, expressing cautious optimism about its reception.
London Gazette Bankruptcy Notices Include Whitstones Minshull and Siefken
From the London Gazette comes bankruptcy notices for Thomas Whitstones a vintner in Cambridge and William Minshull a tailor in Holborn, and John Siefken of London a merchant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas Whitstones
Cambridge
Willian Minshull
St. Andrew Holborn
Middlesex
Taylor and Chapman
John Siefken
London
Multiple Estates and Manor Sales Across Lincoln and Northampton
To be sold: Manor of Huttoft in Lincolnshire with several messuages and farms in Huttoft and Enderby valued at 3041 per year. Also the Manor of Wellingborough Hatton in Northamptonshire with fines and quit-rents, plus messuages, farms and lands in Wellingborough Wilby and Ellington, near 3901 yearly value. Also a well situated London area house with 6 rooms, gardens, offices and river fishery rights, with advowson and vicarage income, near the river to Bedford. For details contact Richard Banister in Fetter Lane or James Digby in Bourne.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Huttoft
Lincoln
Alford
Enderby
Wellingborough-Hatton
Northampton
Wellingborough
Wilby
Ellington
Huntingdon
London
Bedford
Richard Banister
Fetter- Lane
James Digby
Bourne
Also Mentioned on This Page
Hackney
Savoy
Northumberland House
Oxford Road
Newgate
Alice Prior
Bridewell
Richard Manly
Elizabeth Williams
Burkett
Miss Sheafe
Alexander Sheafe
George Champion
Bridge Ward
Palfey
East Indies
Camberwell
Great Ormond-street
Thomas Hail
East India Company
St. James’s House
Lewis Augustus Blondeau
John Legonier
Bath
Colonel Legonier
Westminster Abbey
Francis Legonier
Dragoons
England
Falkirk
C. York
The
London Gazette
Gene Langford
Kirks-End
St. Albany
St. Albin's
Edward, Langford
Srancis Sarjant
London-Colney
Kirks
Francis Sarjant
Ted
Bocland
Regiment of Foot
Ball
Winchester
William Monk
Clayton
Yorkshire
Great Britain
John Winter
Regie Ment
Dartmouth-Street
Westminster
William Wroght
Thomas Overton
Sheffield
John Shiercliffe
Abe Fcoud
William Wright
William Williams
Newport
Wight
John Blackall
New Sarum
Thomas Hodgson
Cheapfide
John Mason
Bermondsey
Surry
Daniel Highmore
Leadenhall Street
Cheapside
Everal
Tyrene
Delander
Tompion
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