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Royal Navy bounties extended and allied notices published
May proclamations extend three pound bounty for able seamen and two pounds for ordinary seamen with payment to June next. Peer nominations at Holyrood discussed, commissions empower Admiralty to seize ships and goods from American colonies. Reports from Philadelphia on militia and Hessian riflemen. Smuggling, highwaymen, and coastal searches noted amid naval preparations and local marriages and deaths.
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St. James’s
Apri
His Majesty’s Royal Navy
His Majesty
Royal Navy
Privy Council
Scotland
Holy-Rood” House
Edinburgh
Great-Britain
John Earl of Strathmore
Great- Britain and Ireland
High Court of Admiralty
New Hampshire
Masachusetts Bay
Rhodey
Utand
William Howe
North- America
Nova-Scotia
Florida
Alfoa
Guy Carleton
Gesera
Quebec
Mauritius
Coromandel
Nabob
Ascot
Clavering
Circar
Ee John Byng
Regiment of Foot-Guards
Colt Fleming
Philadelphia
Clinton
New-York
Congress
America
Lord Hyde
Jeferys
Boston
Palmouth-express
Marseilles
Carthagena
Algiers
Em Barbadoes
Hurdle
London
Henry the Fourth
Kent
Dartford
Whenté
Walter Baker
Minories
Oxford-street
St.Giles’s
St. Giles’s
Litchfield-street
New Gate
Clergyman
Shepterd’s Bush
St. James’s Square
James Wordley
Sudbury
Suffolk
Alithea Stone
Lime-street
York
Rich. Metcalfe