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The Seaford to be Commissioned and Venturers in Action
A winded session notes the Seaford being placed in commission under Capt. Thomas Pye with delivery to a voyage within eight days. Reports from the West Indies describe the Spaniards in Carthagena facing scant rigging provisions and plague like distress as French forces reportedly gain an advantage. The London diary records numerous deaths, marriages, and official appointments, plus a disastrous warehouse fire in Lombard Street and a daylight robbery near Highgate.
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Deptford
Board of Admiralty
Seaford
Thomas Pye
Admiral Scheuart
West-Indies
Carthaena
France
Jast
Bath
Berkley
Brigadier Berkley
Welters
Cornwall
Hereford
Windsor
Knights of the Most
Noble Order of the Garter
Louisa
Frances Elliot
Earl of Grantham
Mayor Elliot
Saville-Row
Burlington Gardens
Lords Commissioners
The
Treasury
Dimmock
King’s Street
Westminster
Bristol
George Champion
Bridge- Ward
Clay
John Thomas
Deceas
Peter Vavafor
Haselwoold
County of
York
Holme
Dorothy Langdale
Lord Langdale
Earl Waldegrave
Navestock
Essex
Walter Wadman
John Wadman
Imbar
Wilts
Ilington
Robert Anderson
John Anderson
Newcastle
Lloyd
Ripple and
Betterhanger
Walmer
Canterbury
Ripple
Brett
Salisbury
William Hillman
Carshalign
Surrey
Scawen
Lewis Scawen
Thomas Scawen
Walthamstow
John Leigh
Peter Stone
Nathaniel Lloyd
Trinity Hall
Cambridge
University
Regentalk
Wove-Court
Bearbinder-Lane
Neal
Lombard Street
Jamaica
Vice-Roy
Emperian
Robinson
London
Ifracomb
Vernon
Ellen
William Lampert
Waterford
Oporto
Scilly
Lampert