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Newspaper

London Evening Post

Location

London, Middlesex, United Kingdom

Date

Jul 12, 1777

Page

3

Count of Gothland visits baron at court amid regal pageantry

An account details Count Sarico Zeld announcing the Count of Gothland as Baron Wolken hosts the ceremony. Imperial progress unfolds with receptions, lodging at Nolken's, and plans to visit Zarfca Zelo before Peterhoff. Officials arrange surrender notices for merchants and tradespeople, with dividends and certificates listed for late July to August. Opposing crowds and courtly events appear amid a broad roster of names and places across London and surrounding towns.

Baron Peterhoff Droh Anthony Maximilian Michlen Pilnitz Hery Kelly Guildhall Robert Luard London Farrender Wm. Simpson John Rider Leeds Yorkshire Fotn Barness Lilvesvrexcet Worcester Talbot St. Prostwich Worcestershire Sixby Rowledge Wellingborough Northamptonshire Butcher Forthoon George Inn Kettering Northcot Hott Manchester Lancashire Obertainer Exchange Coffee-house Thomas Jones Choulstree Herefordshire Auge Roy Sloven Wm. Harrison Ludgate-hill Taylor Thomas White Danbury Essex Black Bull Coventry John Hill John Barnell Fleet-market Thomas Howod Girardstree Soho Upholder Richard B Thomas Wooldridge the Crescent Shipp Holborn Baker Joseph Reeve Cambridge Dalestreer Liverpool Francis Sinclair Sarad Farrer Edward Arrowmaith John Carr Ofcotland Dryfalter Isaac Moses Alman Brisol Moses Joseph County of Lancaster

Weathered Ship Movements and Arrivals in Dover Downs

Tuesday notices show multiple vessels including Mary Burrell, Tavintible, Adventure tender, and Swaff with several sailings tied to Portsmouth Lancaster and Lancaster routes. Arrivals list Webster Brown from Oporto and Neptune Reuben Macey from Brazil at various ports, plus Seven Brothers from Barbados and Rhyth Ann from Newry reaching Chester.

Deal Webster, Brown Oporto Dover Marshall Briffee St. Domingo Bourdeaux Minerva Ditto Viktoire Rohcot Rochelle Saint Marc Dito Dita Barnes Barbadoes Rhyth Ann Finlay Newry Chester

News from New York and Northward in May 1777

Mail from New York arrives via Halifax with reports of a 20 gun French ship Le Sané captured by an English frigate en route from France to St. Peter’s in Newfoundland. Other notices describe 400 regulars and 1000 Canadians and Indians at Crown Point, and Washington moving outposts toward Eat Town on the Delaware in preparation for a southern campaign.

New Yorks Halifax Boulderson Falmouth New York Philadelphia Young le Sané France Martinico St. Peter’s Newfoundland Donginica New-York Gazette Crown Point Ticonderoga Washington Eat Town Delaware

Fragmentary 18th century notes on movements and tides

The text records incomplete references to individuals Mr Pallam and Mr M Doaga moving between places including Peek’s hut Mortis Town and New York galette of fancy. It notes Washington’s army occupying ports from Bound Brook to New German Town about 25 miles and tides to Pluckemin.

English privateers raid off Cuba and port battles

Reports from Whitehaven and Maryport detail a naval engagement off Cuba where English ships retook a vessel from Spanish Guarda Costas and brought it to Post Royal. A Spanish frigate threatened to attack Port Royal if the ship was not yielded, amid broader British concerns over American privateers in Irish waters.

Fanaica Cuba Kingston Royal Express Havannah Port Royal Lester Whitehaven Mary Betty Thornton Maryport Workington General Mifflin Walter Day Boston Congress of Rebecca Polly Cork New-York Priseilla Caffedy Sligo Liverpool France James Raffel Glasgow Sporto Bell Limerick Infterhull Molly of Milthrop Jasper Beutel Greenock Millthrop N. W Galloway Ballyshannon Mifflin Mas Wickes Merly Isaac Ashburner West India Jatt Port Patrick Baufkel Milthorp Paris Admiralty Board Cromartie Scotland le Courageux Gibbon London Orkneys Edinburgh

Privateers raid and naval actions amid May reports

A mixed London and Portsmouth dispatch details privateers failing from a 32 and 36 gun squadron, with brigantines and tutors, totaling twenty to thirty ships. It notes the Nabob of Owde’s force, its commander Maboob Ally, and a battle where Captain Erskine was killed and Captain Gravely wounded. English forces reportedly captured seventeen cannon and routed the musketeers and deserters. Additional items mention cargo from South Carolina, arrivals and sailings from the Downs, housing and political moves, a fatal stage accident in Fleet Street, and grain prices in the Corn Exchange.

Halifax Boftons Teacness Allips Benpal Dawn Owde Afoph al Doolate Gravely Erskin Maboob Erskine Captain Gravely Parker London South Carolina Nantes Bermudas Ferling Portsmouth Lord North East-Indiaman Hambley Stirling Cattle Charles Douglas Fowey Salter Downs England Earl of Strathmore Duchess of Grafton Abbermarle-street Wade Bath Blackstone Willes Northampton Crown Bar Edward Willes Thomas Durmer Saunders Tebbutt Sudborow Winchester Ar. Mills William Pulver John Bellaman Tho Becket Chilcombe Bedford John’ Keath Sarah Ginn Wooton John Goodman John Yewman John Warner Richard Gilpin Hockley Chalgrave Dr Dodd Herbert Black Lyon Inn Curtis St Partholo Newgate Joseph Stoper Lombard-street King’s Bench Rushworth Windsor Westminster Davenport R. Davenport Leicester Corn Exchange Oxford Faly Rz Johan Fisher Covent Garden Birmingham John Browne Cambridge Queen’s College David Hughes Charles Alsop Sheepshead Leicestershire William Gordon K. B Farnham

Newmarket July Meeting 1976 Continued Frontrunning Results

Friday's card produced a dead heat between Sir C Davers Attack and Lord Clermont Mittley in the mile event with Ditch-in and 100gs. Lord Clermont’s b f by Squirrel beat Burlton’s Pleasant by Herod in the two middle miles of the race for 50gs. Vernon’s Narcissas f t 10lb defeated Ottley’s Burford in another Ditch-in at 50gs.

Newmarket C. Davers Lord Clermont Mittley Ditchin Squirrel Burlton Herod R. M Shaito Scipio Lord Abingdon B. C Vernon Narcissas Ottley Burford

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