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British and Atlantic News Briefs from Portsmouth to Covent Garden
Ships report engagement near Portugal and Cadiz, captures by French privateers, and prize tallies in the Atlantic. Oxford and Norwich clergy appointments, deaths including Earl Bradford and Sir Roger L Estrange, and local London notices. War news includes Prussia Sweden Denmark alignments, and Martinique loss. also market prices and social notes.
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Spain
Portugal
Boman de Shannon
Braithwait
Ise of Wight
Cadiz
Holland
Portsmouth
Havannah
Meriton
Guernsey
London
Cowes
Lee
Allen
Virginia
Dover
Africa
St. Domingo
George
Nancy
Kemp
Friendship
Ball
Dispatch
Duncan
Woodford
Elizabeth
Smith
Carolina
Union
Witifchief
Villa Franca
Port Mahon
Genoa
Marseilles
Marcinico
Gibraltar
Leghorn
Fanny
Scroop
Magdalen College
Ellis Jones
Christ-church
University of Oxford
John Mayo
Queen’s College
Oxford
Becking
Becking-stoke
Woolcer
Wilts
Salisbury
Thomas Sharpe
St. John’s College
Prince
Tackley
Oxfordshire
Latournelle
Earl of Buckinghamsshire
Norwich
Briswell
Suffolk
Thomas Evans
Ephraim Megee
Worstead
Norfolk
William Herne
Alderford
Artlebridge
Weston
Bucks
Ion
Earl of Bradford
Henry Bridgman
Ludlow
Roger L’estrange
Beccles
Taylor
Wansted
Craven Buildings
Charles Hickes
Fort Augustus
Scotland
Betsta
Thomas Salisoury
High Court of Admiralty
Newgate
R. George
Bristol
Main
Read
Robert Price
Farrier
Lime-kiln-lane
Caine
Peissevais
George Prowfe
Thomas Prowfe
Somerset
Ste James’s Church
Miss Sharp
Sharp
Northumberland
Samuel Markham
St. James’s Church
Miss Farr
Farr
Newgate-street
de Styrum
Order of Dannenburgh
Glukslad
King
Swariage
Kingston
Menby
Barbadoes
Spithead
Geary
Deal
Downs
His Majesty
Minerva
St. George
Loestaff
Solebay
Dolphin
Flamborough Prize
Ann Vidualler
Wind
Mark Lane
York
Dixie West Country
Sezip
Ditco
India