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Shipping and political controversy fill the Downs report
The Downes scene lists ships from Hull including the Thornton and Newark, while Parliament-era editorials praise the king’s restraint in elections. Notices recount marriages, deaths, a duel injury update, shipbreakers at London Bridge, price entries for beaver skins and a fire at Deptford, plus crime and public notices.
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London
Titus Vespasian
M‘laren
Guernsey
Gibraltar
Cape Finisterre
St. John de Luz
Stockton
Rotterdam
Holland
Jlebec
Royal Exchange
the Marineociety
Mgetty
Richard Grosvenor
James Owther
Clive
Miss Lowther
James Lowther
Taylor
Duncan
Lady Carberry
Lord Carberry
Northampton
Richard Charlton
Afton
Hertford
Penelope
Ralph Radcliffe
Hitchin
Croydon
Surrey
Samuel Shaw
Spring Gardens
Castles
Bisi
Brown
Stratford
Row
Womas
Wimbledop
Lee
Deptford