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Trade and treason tales mix in a December London miscellany
A sprawling period digest reports thefts and smuggling cases, ship news and port struggles, trials and tavern chatter, plus weather and tides. It notes gunpowder shipments to the West Indies, a patent grant to Jonathan Hull for an invention to move ships without wind, and local political moves in Portsea and Cambridge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Portugal
Portual
Great Britain
Jonathan Hull
England
Wales
Berwick Upon Tweed
Guildford
Kington
Uxbridge
Samuel Worrall
Gloucester
High Court of Chancery
King’s Bench
Common Pleas
His Majesty
S Court of Exchequer
Hereford
Worcester
Bristol
Battersea Fields
Ollison
Southwark
Commissioners of Excise
West-Indies
Warner
Portfoken
Rochester
Streights
Stubbington
Lisbon
Portsmouth
Oporto
Williams
Bow-street
Union-Stairs
Wapping
New Palace-Yard
Westminster Hall
Town Court
House of Commons
Tothill-Fields
Nathaniel Blackerby
Elysear Parliament
Wachman
London Bridge
Polly Peach
Baily
Rolls of Parliament
Pattons
England and
Canterbury
Red Lion
Beddenden
West
Cornbrook
Maidstone
Westgate
John Hermeis
White Swan
Northgate
Baldock
Hertfordshire
Juliers
Bergues
Elector Palatine
Rhine
Electorate of Cologne
Marck
Dutchy
Westphalia
Guelder
Liege
Limberg
Buc Roach
Cleves
Laft
South Sea
Prem
Andia
Royal Exchange
London
Ditta
Mine Adventure
Emperor’s Loan
Exchequer Oriers
Cambridge