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Naval and maritime notices drift from Gravesend to Berlin
The report covers ships from the East India Company's service sailing from Gravesend and Bristol letters on a robbery at sea involving the galnot Sophia Margaretta. It notes the Turkish Embassador’s gift to Prince Henry, a Polish king’s collection auction in Dresden, and various London society items including marriages, deaths, and a public execution at Tyburn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norfolk
Sandys
Garnarvon
Hutchinson
East India Company
Gravesend
Downs
Duke of Albany
James Haldane
Bristol
Weffell
Galnot Sophia Margaretta
Harman Weffells
Bremen
Achmet Effendi
Berlin
Henry
Prussia
Poland
Dresden
Whitstable
Kent
Dean and Chapter of
Canterbury
Margate
Jacob
Coldstream
Thomas Saltern
Monk-Leigh
Devon
Exeter
Robert Middleton
Earl of Northampton
Lland-Drillo
Denbigh
St. Asaph
St. George
Edward Strode
Lucy Naomi Gough
St. Martin In the Fields
Samuel Hoare
Justice Gillam
Rotherhithe
Nancy Williams
Blackheath
Colnbrook
Blunt
Alderman Blunt
St. John’s Street
West Smithfield
Gurney
Pollex ‘Hill
Bedfordshire
Royal Oak
St. Giles’s
Swan Alehouse
King Street
Westminster
Maiden-lane
Covent-garden
Chandois-street