Despatches on Spanish Armada and American siege details
The dated letters discuss Spanish fleet movements near Algiers the Dey’s expulsion of Christians, and troop landings. Updates from Deal and Dover report arrivals of East Indiamen and other ships, while dispatches from Falmouth recount a June 19 action near Cambridge with General Gage and General Putnam, noting heavy casualties and a British retreat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Isis
Spain
Morocco
Tangier
Falmouth
New England
Winnesimet
Gage
Cambridge
Roxbury
Thomas
Putnam
Howe
Burgoyne
Lord Percy
Prescot
Lord Rochford
Lord Grantham
Madrid
Lord Sandwich
Lord Dartmouth
General Gage
The Navy, Taxes, and Trade News From Dover to Plymouth
The fragment reports naval movements and transfers, ships departing and arriving at Spithead, Plymouth, and Sheerness, including the Royal Oak and a transport under Capt. Southerland. It notes wartime pay and allowances for officers and soldiers, dockyard disruptions, port dispatches to General Gage in Boston, and various price listings for hops hay corn and flour in London markets. It also mentions clergy appointments, deaths, and a report on the British Lying-in Hospital's quarterly court and its admissions since 1749.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Portmouth
Déal Castle
Spithead
Col. Dalrymple
Royal Oak
Parker
Navy
Southerland
Sheerness
Brady
Laff Friday
Plymouth
Portsmouth
General Gage
Boston
Raven
Yetterday
Greenland
Syren
Gilbert
Falmouth
Deptford
Gibraltar
Harriet
Lee
New York
Newgate
Earl of Suffolk
John Armer
Hough Boyd
Earl of Rochford
Joseph Grindall
Joseph Bates
Whitechapel Haymarket
Mark
John Stocks
Golceby
Lincolnshire
John Heath
Thurlby
Wiltshire
Antigua
Raugelaar
Durham
Gelfo
Kirkmerrington
Mr. Rice
Happisburgh
Eccles
Norfolk
Mr. Williams
Bristol
Brownlow- Street
Long Acre
Duke of Portland
Charity Hospital Plans and Subscriptions Opened
The text outlines midwifery instruction for pupils at a hospital, with boarded facilities for deficient cases and wet nurses provided by charity. It urges public support via a subscription book to fund erecting a new hospital or enlarging the present one, and a chapel, with funds applied to current expenses until works occur. Donations may be sent to Melis Hankey and Co or Baldero and Co or Coutts and Co or Crofts and Co or to the Weekly Committee meeting Fridays at the hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Melis
Hankey and Co
Fenchurch-street
Baldero and Co
Tebury Races Results At July 1 Meetings
On Thursday July 1 Lord Craven's gr. h. Nincompoop won the sd. with Sir Richard Phillipps's bay mare Duchess second. On Friday the 50l. prize went to Mr Bowles's br. h. Lout or ft, with Major Brereton's br. m. Maid of the Mill or Mr Cope's bay geld. Hazard third. Mr Craven's bay geld. Foxhunter third.
GALLEYWOOD RACES JULY 19 WINNERS AND ENTRIES
Race card from Galleywood Common listing Her Majesty's plate won by Mr. Gascoyn's filly Thistle a Pegasus? and other entries among notes for hunters sweeps and town plate. Includes horses Sphinx Lucy Oddity and Harbinger plus entries for Bay Robin Darius and Ferrett with weights and placings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Galleywood Common
Her Majesty’s
Mr. Gascoyn
Thistle
Offory
Sphinx
Waldham
Heath
Pay Cullen
Major Hurt
Maynard
Dafty
Roggle
Trim
Hyde
H. Polydre
Stroud
H. Ranger
Mr. Cruth
Bay H. Bay
Dr. Friday
Sol
Lora Maren
Harbinger
Mr. Burlton
Darius
Mr. Price
Mr. Piggot
Chef
Oddity
Mr. Durgan
Ferrett
Nottingham Races and Trials From Tudor Era Notice
Races for six and ten year olds at Nottingham with horses Teucer Pegatas Orion Greyhound and Spillikin. Also notes a weight for age race won by Stephano and Andronicus, plus a Derbyshire vs Nottinghamshire cock fighting match won by Smith. Historic trials before Lord Chief Justice Hyde recount English treason cases and the Earl of Strafford impeachment overview.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sutton
Br. H. Greyhound
Clarke
Andronicus
Derbyshire
David Smith
Feeder
Nottinghamshire
Mee
Smith
Charles the
Hyde
Mervin
Audley
Fitzpatrick
J. Broadway
R. Snagg
Fleet-street
Thomas Earl of Strafford
England
Ireland
Scattina
Consul Appointments and Bankruptcy Notices From London Gazette
July notices report John Wallace named as British Consul at Bergen replacing his father. Also listed are bankruptcies with names and surrender dates in Hatfield St Albans Needham Market Woolwich Cirencester and New Sarum plus August and September deadlines and venues.
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Madrid
Carighagena
Marseilles
Algiers
St. Famers
John Wallace
Eig
Bergen
Alexander Wallace
Esg
Edward Hill
Hatfield
Herts
Victualler
Harvey Berrow
St. Andrew
Holborn
Haberdather
Milliner
Glover
Josiah Bayfield
Christ Church
Surry
Fetter
Guildhall
London
Jacob Everitt
Needham-market
Suffolk
Alexander Gregg
Woolwich
Kent
Taylor
Richard Floyd
New Sarum
Wilts Baker
Maidenhead Inn
Thomas Millington
Cirencester
Gloucestershire
King’s Head
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Holland
Earl of Dunmore
Virginia
Williamson
Dover
Privy Council
America
Bostonhans
Jenkinson
Lord North
Duke
Duke of Gloucester
Italy
William Weller Pepys
Lincoln’s Inn
Robert Pratt
London Bridge
Nottingham
The
King’s Plate
Wan Ho
London Gazette
Darein
Michael Knott
Rydal
Kendal
Kerwick
Westmorlard
Widdermere
Ambleéside
Keswick
Bedett
Tre Rouse
Bersons
Kell
Water-Head
Conistone
County of Lancaster
King-street
Bloomsbury
Collep
John Ray
F. R
Bemnet
Earl of
Tong Kerville
Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure
Paternostere Row
Warwick-line
Bed
El-Ga Atly
Europe
John’ Laverence
Molheim
University of Gottingen
Archibald Maclaine
T. Cadell
Stefan
Missippi
Florida
Georgia
North Carolina
Great Britain
Ohio
James Adair
Elys
C. Dilly
Robson
New Bond-street
J. Almon
Piccadilly
Walter
Charing-Cross
Milton
Lucxe
Rousseau
Helvetius
David Williams
G. Kearnly
Sereint’s Tin
Fleet-ttree
T. Payne
Familus Sud
St Martin’s-law
Charinze Cross
Amnet
Bath
Ss. 3d
Opera
Haymarket
Pertanr
Boafort
Strand
Mitre-court
Firesilres
Royal Exchange
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