Winds slow as ships list at open water port
Nov 1g dispatches report light SW wind driving outward vessels to fail. Numerous ships arrived and cleared for river, naming crews and origins from Cadiz Barbadoes Newfoundland London and other ports. A long list of vessels includes Hope Strange Neltor Hayes Worcester Whitshead Mercury Franks Elizabeth Nancy Clive Ancona Charlotte Bristol Polly Alward Dover St George Weare Dublin Experiment Curry Tygree Hill Aurora Gawen Betty Cully Concord Ranger Yerman Fanny Wood Lancaster Betty Devonshire Dean Hampshire Wolfe Coke Speedwell Scott Atlantic Stack Experiment Carew Jenny Duncan Mary-Ann Gilchrist Jane Whitlock Neptune Success Merden Friend ship Ashford Suannah Baker Royal Oak Gray Fame Collabera Lurgan Eagle Hogan etc.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ECW
S. Dear
S.W
S. W
Hope
Strange
Cadiz
Gaavesenn
Neltor
Hayes
Worcester
Whitshead
Barbadoes
London Packet
Palmer
Bourdeaux
Happy Return
Webb
Coike
Mercury
Franks
Lifoen
Elizabeth
Nancy
Clive
Newfoundland
Weare
Londonderry
Mary
George
Riga
Dublin
Experiment
Curry
Honduras
Constantinople
Tygree
Hill
London
Barelona
Aurora
Gawen
Betty
Cully
Concord
Randal
Shelland
Alicant
Hyde
Harbour Grace
Ranger
Yerman
The
Bay of Bulls
Fanny
Wood
Ferryland
Lancaster
Shaw
Devonshire
Dean
Portsmouth
Hampshire
Wolfe
Malaga
Coke
Speedwell
Scott
Atlantic
Stack
St. Abe’s
Carew
Jenny
Duncan
Corke
Mary-Ann
Gilchrist
Jane
Whitlock
Waterford
Neptune
Cook
Success
Merden
Friendship
Ashford
Su‘annah
Baker
Royal Oak
Gray
Fame
Collabera
Lurgan
Eagle
Hogan
Thompson
Stersburgh
William
Symonds
Ge Creek
Swan
Naples
Royal family moves to Queen's Palace for winter
Fragments report the royal family relocating from Kew to the Queen's Palace for the season with plans for chapel and drawing rooms on Sundays near Christmas. Also noted are noble appointments, naval news, tax ideas, and legal actions from London to Ireland and beyond.
London News In Court Warnings Crimes and Births
Report covers court actions in Mansfield and Exchequer Chamber with affidavits, plus a series of brawls robberies and maritime incidents. Includes drawn prizes at Guildhall, shipwrecks near Woolwich, burglaries at Drury Lane and Knightsbridge, arrests, a fatal shooting aboard a ship, and various births marriages and deaths in Berkshire and May Fair.
Notable Deaths and Illnesses Across London Figures
A late 18th century notice lists multiple deaths and illnesses in London and surrounding areas. Names include Mr. Elliot a cheekemonger in Charterhouse-lane and Mrs. Vincent wife of Captain Frederick Vincent of Grosvenor-place. Several others named: Mr. Patience a pewterer in Fleet-street, Mr. Hollingbury a taylor in Cannon-street who died after parrot bite complications, Mrs. Booth of Middle Temple, Joseph Finch Esq. Harlesdon-green, Edmund Smith Esq. Bow, Wil Ham Lea Esq. Winfield near Bradford, the Rev Mr Martyn of Inglih come near Bath, and Hon Mrs Eliz Forrester Colerne Wilt. The notices reflect long illnesses and frailty preceding death.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ning
Hatton-street
Robert Patience
Fleet-street
Elliot
Cheekemonger
Charterhouse-lane
Vincent
Frederick Vincent
Grosvenor-place
Search
Cryer
Old Baileys
Hollingbury, Taylor
Cannon-street
Booth
Mr. Booth
Middle Temple
Harlesdon-green
Joseph Finch
Bow
Middlesex
Edmund Smith
Wil Ham Lea
Winfley
Bradford
Martyn
Inglihcome
Bath
Colerne
Wilts
Eliz. Forrester
Money on bond offer from a London broker
A London advertisement seeks noblemen, gentlemen, or ladies with money to lend on bond on short notice. Grove, at No 19 Caray Meet, Chancery Lane, offers annuities and bargains from 50 to 600 pounds, with secrecy and immediate access. he disclaims any connection with other ads.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grove
Caraymeet
Bofwel Court
Chancery-lane
Acta
Drops for Every Disorder Promoted by Blood Foulness
A letter from Henry Ellis praises Norton’s Drops for curing a scerbatic face disorder and other ills after four years of suffering. The note warns the public to buy only Norton’s genuine bottles at Fleet Street and Piccadilly, listing cures from leprosy to rheumatism and claiming improved digestion and appetite.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Ellis
Hester Studd
Gitlara
Church- Leigh
Essex
Warden
John Norton
Marchant
Norton
Golden
Square
Piccadilly
London
St. Anthony's
Kearny
Lords Hear Appeal and Approve Land Tax Bill
In London the House of Lords heard counsel on the Irish appeal of James Glascott and Frances against Nathaniel Wigmore. They affirmed the decree. The Land Tax bill passed to a third reading. Hartman’s naturalization bill was read second time. The royal assent was given to a tax act for England Wales and Berwick for 1777 with Scotland’s share per treaty. The Lords adjourned until Monday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Honfe
Court of Aixchequer
Ireland
James Glascott
Frances
Nathaniel Wigmore
Alleyne
Hartman
Quarrie
Commons
House of Peers
England
Principality of Wales
Berwick Upon Tweed
Great Britain
Scotland
House of Commons Daily Proceedings and Bills Read
Nov 19 and 20 sessions note petitions for private bills and resolutions from the Committee of Ways and Means. Continuation of malt, mum, cider and perry duties to June 24, 1778. Mutiny bill second reading. grain warehouse inquiry. Gloucester de la plan petition. Royal assent to Land Tax bill. writs issued for Islington and Sandwich replacements. Marine mutiny and Islington Poor bills examined.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Turspay
Charles Whitworth
Committee of Ways and Means
Cyder
Perry
Gloucester de la
House of Peers
Islington
Lestwithiel
Cornwall
Charles Brett
Chiltern
Sandwich
Kent
Wm. Hey
Customs
Samuel Mead
House of Lords Orders Report on Private Bills Delayed
On Tuesday an order was made in the House of Lords that no report on petitions for private bills should be received after the ensuing March. Mr. Gilbert told the House of Commons that returns from overseers of the poor show the last year’s funds used for the poor, with abstracts to be laid before Parliament after Christmas. He planned to move after holidays to appent a day for the important consideration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lord Marchmont
House of Peers
Gilbert
House of Commone
England and
Wales
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Hursday
Country News
Newcastle
Kars
L Oondon
Kew
Queen’s Palace
Earl of Buckinghamshire
Kingdom of Ireland
Boynton
Edward Boynton
St. James’s
Admiral Keppel
Bristol
Cork
Biscay
James
Higgins
Antigua
Bermuda
St. George
Wier
Dover
Maria
William Mott
Andrew
Sinclair
Halifax
Nova Scotia
Matthew Squire
America
Lord Howe
Paris
Lyons
Sablons
King’s Bench
Fox
Counsil
Raéter
Lord Mansfield
Guildhall
Lool
Cach
Gol. Taco
Cooper
Shoreditch
N. W
Woolwich
Blackwall
Hazard
Salisbury Plain
Violet
Denfray
Portugal
Limehouse
Spesseh
Pital
Stockford
Brook’s Market
Gray’s Inn-Lane
Hicks’s Hall
Cleskenwell Parish
His Majesty’s
St. Margaret’s Bill
Bow-street
Nathaniel Wrench
Fulham
John Cooper
Knightsbridge
James Lee
Lee
William Briggs
Thomas Grove
John Stockden
Pancras
Mary Robinson
John Maddison
Clarke
Princess-street
Drury-lane
Benjamin Bates
John Green
James Penleaze
James Grant
Squib
Clerkenwell
Wade
Towerditch
Athbrook
Shillingford
Berkshire
George Rich
Hertford-street
May Fair
Ardifoif
Upnor Cattie
Batemany
Hampstead
His
Prinsing
Gough
Berwick
Tweed
Charles Eyre
William Siaan
Meurs Duhamel
Rabin
William Falconer
T. Cadell
Strand
David Macbride
M.D
T. Becket
T. Lowndes
Fleettreet
W. Woodfall
Macbride
Mr. Noxton
Golden Square
House of Lords
House of Commons
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