Ship News and London Gazette Notices From 18th Century Dates
The edition lists ships arrived at Matag, Plymouth, Genoa, Bologna and Dublin from Dundee London Bourdeaux Rotterdam and other ports. Entries include Romney Cerberus Mary Duely Success and others with captains names. Also reports on infectious distempers in Moscow Livonia Estonia Ingria and official denial of plague in Moscow and a note on the Doge of Genoa’s death and a Petersburgh letter denying Moscow plague.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Matag
Success
MacNabb
Dundee
Plymouth
Industry
Goatham
Teneriffe
Genoa
Duke of Savoy
Harman
Londons
Smithson
Fame
Moore
Fancy
Ford
Lavenhoop
Mastermian
Rotterdam
Cardigan
London
White
Moscow
Livonia
Estonia
Ingria
Fan
Hague
Petersburgh
Infanta Maria Frances Dorothea Dies in Lisbon
Yesterday in Lisbon the King’s third daughter Infanta Maria Frances Dorothea died at age 31 years, three months, and 25 days. Earlier reports from Genoa note a ten ship English squadron in the Bay of Gibraltar.
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Holland
Lisbon
Infanta Maria Frances Dorothea
Genoa
Spain
Bay of
Gibraltar
Two Farmers Die After Mad Dog Attack at Sea Shore
Cambridge reports from Grantham that Mr. Mapes and Mr. Geft, two substantial farmers from Navenby Lincolnshire, were bitten by a mad dog and later died after attempting to bathe at Freston Shore on the 12th, with only a boy for company.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Country News
Cambridge
Grantham
Mapes
Geft
Navenby
Lincolnshire
Freston Shore
Royal arrivals and court appointments in 18th century France and England
Reports the Prince Royal of Sweden and Prince Adolphus arriving at the French court and presented to the King, with noble titles. Mentions appointments in Dartmouth and Greenwich Hospital, a shipwreck near Southampton, a Dutch vessel wreck and plunder, a bankruptcy trover case in Westminster, a King’s Bench arrest case, a Common Pleas suit over a magistrate’s search, and a morals case linked to a London inn keeper.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Prince Royal
Sweden
Prince Adolphus
France
Count de Gothland
Count d‘Euland
Thomas Armstrong
Dartmouth
Nicholas Dunbar
Greenwich Hospital
William Eden
Linearriffer
King’s Bench
Westminster
Middlesex
Trover
Bankruphy
Board of Green Cloth
Court of Common Pleas
Wapping
Crown Office
Watton
South- Wark
Madouse
Strand
Madhouse crime and other London notices in Quarter Sessions report
In a Carriage a woman was abducted to a Cay madhouse where the keeper assaulted her, leading to arrest and a trial expected at the adjourned Quarter Sessions at St Margaret’s Hill. Other items include births at Jermyn Street and Harley Street. Old Bailey trials convicting two for burglary at Park Street and several transported for receiving stolen goods. numerous obituaries and marriages.
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Cay
St. Margaret’s Hill
John Shelly
Jermyn-street
Richard Combe
Harleytreet
Old Bailey
Luke Cannon
John Sidey
Edward Stratford
Parkstreet
Grosvenor Square
Cannon
Sidey
Greenfield
Jacob Jacobs
Michael Glannon
Stratford
Frances Tudor
William Thomas
Ludgate-hill
Alexander Middleton
Alexander Anderson
Simon Benjamin
Thomas Smith
Benjamin
Abraham Sanders
Ralph Caleto
Anthony Barraben
Makriep
Mr. Watts
Compton Street
Soho
Prior
Great Buffel-street
Bloomsbury
Godfrey
Margaret Adams
Robert Adams
Tillicherry
East Indies
Welby
William Earl Welby
Denton
Lincolnshire
Speeches on the Spanish Convention and Falkland Islands
Col Barré laments national disgrace over Spain's Falkland claim and the 13 February convention. He denounces lack of naval readiness, questions allies, and cites past kings and treaties while urging firm demands and redress of grievances for England’s honour. Mr Dunning supports urgent debate and criticizes secrecy and weakness in policy.
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Sgh
Gel
Barré
Dunning
Colonel Barré
Buccarelli
Spain
Falkland’s Island
Alexander the Sixth
South Seas
England
Elizabeth
Able
Jemmy
Raleigh
Charles the Second
James
Bedford
Frante
France
Howe
Mediterranean
Europe
Corps Diplomatique
Peuple
America
Douglas
Hawke
Welfe
Pocock
Keppel
Great Britain
Duxsing
Prince Mafferano
Boccarelli
Burgoyne
George Osborne
Weldore Ellis
Falkland’s
Lord North
House of Commons
Furnished or unfurnished house at Bewlett on Mill Bank
Advertisement for the mansion house of Sir John Crosse and later Lady Grosse offering ground floor hall and three parlors a grand hall a library four strong rooms three coach houses stables and yards garden and rooms upstairs with river views and proximity to Lambeth Palace Westminster Bridge the City Surrey Hills and Parliament House for further particulars inquire at the house or with Mr Frederick in Tanfield Court Inder Tommily
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bewlett
Mill Bank
John Crosse, Bart
Lady Grosse
Lambeth Palace
Westminster Bridge
Surry Hills
Cheliga College
Parliament House
Frederick
Tanfield Court
Inder Tommily
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Romney
Cerberus
Mary
Duely
Kinghor
Senegal
Liberty
John Thorpe
Matter
Virginia
Hordle Cliffe
Southampton
Koopman
Lodewyk Verwer
Castle of
Deal
Kent
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