Spectral notes of distant times from a broad English page
An array of early eighteenth century items recounted from Newmarket meetings to royal proclamations and parliamentary talk. It notes racing ambitions between young horses, legal changes on prisoner rescues, naval appointments, merchant profits, and coastal privateering activity with details about ships, prices, and notable figures. The piece blends gossip, state affairs, and local incidents in a dense, period voice.
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Lestons
Newmarket
Knoswasi
Duke of Ancaster
Holland
Paris
William
Queen Mary
Scotland
England
Lord Baltimore
Pelly
Trinity House
Cavendish
Snelgrave
John Wynne
Efy
Thomas. Winnington
Royal Hospital
Chelsea
Robert Mann
Wee Pe
The
East-India Company
Samuel Feake
Chartian
Doding Braddyll
Lords of the Admiralty
Strahan
Compuoller
Chatham
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Treasury
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Samson Gideon
Ee Gore
Ela
John Bristow
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Erard van Neck
Rsocce
Roger Drake
Richard Jackson
Privateers threaten English coast from Dunkirk port
An April dispatch from Dover reports Dover and Sapphire capturing a Dutch Galley loaded with 200 European soldiers from Count Saxe’s regiment. The London letter notes French privateers and a looming large-scale embarkation of 30,000 troops, with mentions of Calais, Brest, Havre, and Dunkirk. Townsfolk fear privateering and a potential descent on the English coasts as preparations intensify.
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Holland
Anne Thomas
Catherine Thomas
John Wynney
John. Williams
William’Evans
Vainolan
Carnarvon
Ely
Clutty Holt
Hooke
Magazine
Greenwich
Islington
Count de Saxe
France
Dunkirk
Germany
Marshal Duke de
Paris
Bristol
Arriv
Tuscany
Leghorn
Nancy
Oporto
Portsmouth
Seaford
Wiplock
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Fuller
Anglesea
Brett
Fletcher’s Hole
Beachy-Head
Bradley
Diplock
Newhaven
Secur’d
Dover
Apell
Richard
Woolfon
London
Gibralgar
Sandgate Castle
Jersey
Marseilles
Havre-de-Grace
Saphire
Ostend
Count Saxe
Downs
Pheed ‘Velfel
Hambourg
Diatirk
England
P. S
Calais
Breft
Managmeé
Channel
Brest
Galais
Ganette
Whitehall
Pietro
Andrex. Capello
Rome
Nota Subich
Lezze
Marci
Venice
Senate
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