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Dutch War News and London Notices Mix
Fr day at Spithead a Dutch ship saluted Admiral Holburne, while reports from Berlin and Amsterdam note Prussia grants and Jewish funding amid stock shifts. Jailed notices, marriages, deaths, and public promotions fill the page alongside a vivid account of a runaway ox terror near Fleet Market and a postponed execution at Newgate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spithead
Admiral Holburne
French West Indies
Martinico
Guadalupe
Stephen Tillinghart
James
Mitchell
Liverpool
Jamaica
Clayton
Tilinghaft
Rio de Janéiro
Bahias
Lifbert
Rio de Janeiro
Bahia
Berlin
Wesel
Rhine
Prussia
Amsterdam
Germany
Breslau
Magdeburgh
Stettin
Saxony
Holland
City of
London
Cooke
Neftfield
Wickambroke
Suffolk
Sidney College, Cambridge
Gilbert Affleck
John Ragdall
Emanuel College
Cambridge
Francis Earl of Huntingdon
Feathers
Cheaplid
Cotton
His Majesty’s Customs
Tarred
Robsit Pilger
Els
Richard
Thomas
Robert
Grosvenor
Batts
Clapham
Schutte
Thames-streets
Broad Sanctuary
Westminster
John Bradfield
Westminster Abbey
Governor Wake
East Indies
Norwich
Fleet-market
Seacoal-lane
Turnagaindane
Holborn-bridge
Holbornhill
Hattongarden
Earl of Halifax
Newgate
Richard Potter