Sail and Shipping News from the Old Bailey and Atlantic Seas
Reports from the Old Bailey show 25 prisoners tried with one capital sentence for burglary. many maritime losses plague British ships near Sussex and Cambridge coasts. Capt. Hodges’s tar laden vessel lost crew saved. Otter sloop foundered with near 60 aboard, only a few saved. several ships ashore or at risk along Isle of Wight to Ramsgate, with scattered recoveries hoped amid fog and weather. Anson fleet reportedly cast away per letters, while other vessels like the Pearl and Mary and Joseph face peril or salvage. Market notes list South Sea and India bonds and insurance tallies as prices drift. A dividend notice returns from Sun Fire-Office with standard payment times.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jeffe Walden
Hodges
New-England
North Carolina
Gordon
Sussex
Aldborough
Mary
Joseph
Richardson
Weist Indies
Rotterdam
Sandown Castle
Clark
Shields
London
Yarmouth
Hibernian Sears
Maryland
Bristol
Pigwell Bay
Ramsgate
Elizabeth
Molyneux
Ipswich
Liverpool
Alderney
Endeavour
Pike
Lisbon
England
Lifton
Baine
Providence
Abaco Key
Dartmouth
Plymouth
Madeira
Brazils
Anson
Pearl
Rio‘de Janeiro
Guiney
Margate
Teneriff
Royal license granted for Stephen Austen to print Stackhouse work
The Crown grants Stephen Austen a fourteen year license to print and sell A New History of the World to the Establishment of Christianity. The description lists two folio volumes and notes four sheets weekly delivery at six pence, with first number due February 6. The privilege binds printers, stampers, and distributors under penalty for reprinting abroad without consent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George
Great Britain
France
Ireland
Stephen Austen
London
Hoth
Thomas Stackhouse
Beenham
Berks
Row Publishing
Stephen’ Austen
St. James’s
Harrington
N. B
Bank Notice Lost Cashier John Waite Seeks Escape
The Bank of England advertises a reward and notices Captain Masters of ships innkeepers and others to apprehend John Waite their late cashier said to be seen at an inn away from London as he plans escape. Described as about 41 years old five feet eight inches, fair complexioned, round face, grey eyes, light eyebrows, and eye claspes travelling in disguise. The Governor and Company offer three hundred pounds reward in addition to previous two hundred pounds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Waite
London
Joan Warte
Bank of England
LE Gros
Jon N. Watts
Repairing Roads From Stonereed to Dartford and Kent Line
A general meeting was adjourned to Monday next the 25th of February at the Bowling Green, Houston Blagpheath, at ten in the forenoon, to discuss bids for repairing roads from Stonereed in Konsfiéiane Southavdrky to East Greenwich near Blackheath, then to Southend in Lewisham, in the Kent collieries, and from the lime kilns to the Cock and Lyon Back Gate at the West End of Dartford Town.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greenwich
Blackheath
Liwisham
Kent
Cock and Lyon
Dartford
Gods Great Akery Care And Guilt Escape
Fragmentary OCR notes describe Fullice Johnson placing a shield within a nine yard read, with a printed imprint by T. Cooper at the Globe in Paternofter Row, suggesting a dated publication. The garbled text hints at a dramatic message about care patience and punishment for guilty men.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Akéry
Johnson
Davenant
T. Cooper
Globe
Paternofter Row
Also Mentioned on This Page
Larimouth
Canaries
Teneriffe
India
Sun Fire-Office
Salisbury
Tony
Thowas Beach
Nile
Wilken
Geo
Stewart
Spring-Garden
Charing-Cross
Bird’s Dock
Weymouths
Thomas Scrangways Horner
Dorset
Johnathan Hooper
John Horner
Barwick
Somerset
John Smith
Sapfelin
Holborm
Richard Clarke
Reading
China
Japan
Earl of Thomond
Deceas
Dover-street
St. James
Sans Jones
Prince
Welliam Somervile
Incondita Folas
Montibus
Sylvis
J. Stage
Westminster Hall
J. Roberts
Warwick Lane
Samuel Soulre
St. Fobn’s, College
Cambridge
W. Thurnbourn
John Beecroft
Bible and Crown
Lombard Street
Joan CoLepartag
Physiologia Explicsida Munere
Atstheir
Fountain
Strand
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