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Forty Yarmouth men arrive in town seeking ships for fishery protection
A report notes forty Yarmouth men in town pressing Lords of the Admiralty for warships to guard the fishery. Other items include loss of the Unity with crew saved, a Lisbon to London voyage, a privateer capture near Bilbao, and a humorous Highland dress anecdote. Also mentions a charity sermon, weekly diseases, deaths, and financial market updates.
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Yarmouth
Admiralty
Dumfries
Archibald Graham
Capes
Virginia
Nicholson
Whitehaven
Rotterdam
Belfast
St. Sebastian’s
N.S
Betty Pleasant
Evans
Lisbon
London
Torrington
Bilboa
Whitaker
Ommander
England
Scotland
Charles
James
Royal Exchange
William
Bank of England
Tacitus
Agricola
Alhallows Standing Church
Mark Lane
Delaney
Christ Church
Dublin
Tower Ward
Bank
India
COFTN
Royal Exchange Assurance
Exchequer