Fragments from Portsmouth and Lisbon in late 1700s notes
Extracts recount a French 74-gun ship affair at Miattinic and Boreas at Spithead, dispatches from Lisbon, a Dutch voyage attacked by English pirates, new 92-gun ship planned at Woolwich, and various obituaries, appointments, and local incidents. Includes Windsor era political and military chatter and market reports.
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Rana
Cheneyrow
Surry
Coorn-market
Marklane
Smithfield
Newgate
Alderman Cokayne
Humphrey Pugh
Devonshire Square
John
Carrol
New Church
Strand
Blancheta battles ditto of fares and fringe work clashes
A fragmentary note cites Blancheta contending with a ditto of fares related to B. William I and Queen Anne, alongside a Mary Queen of William fringe work. The text also references a prodigious collection of Roman and Egyptian antiquities, statues, busts, and paintings.
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Blancheta
Fares B. Willian
Queen Anne
Mary Queen
William
Sc. dc
Press fears in London over attachment and Star Chamber
A letter to the London Evening Post warns that attaching a person without trial mirrors Star Chamber methods and endangers English liberty. The writer argues that trial by peers is essential, fearing precedent could erode rights. public figures and ministers must be scrutinized for private virtue to guide state leaders.
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Steyn
Duke of York
Holland
Prince Ladholder
Brunswick
Berlin
Prussia
Copenhagen
Capnhagen
England
Board of Trade
M. de Buffy
France
Henry Cunningham
Regiment of Foot
Gibraltar
Coventry
Rotherhithe
Chelsea
Ebenezer Muffet
K. Charles II
James II
James IV
Scotland
Floddenfield
Bashaw
Damascus
Vienna
Madagascar
Q. Elizabeth
Mary Queen of Scots
Oliver Cromwell
K. Charles Ifd
Queen Elizabeth
Charles I
Bo. Juxon
St. Thomas A Becker
Edmundbury Godfrey
Duce
Marlborough
Almon
Gues
Thali
Fang
Charles the
Lord Clarendon
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Boreas
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Peter van Campion
Hambourgh
Cadiz
Barrow
Swin
Woolwich
Dresden
Xaverius
Saxony
Leipsick
Augustus II
Henry Grenville
Thirk
Yorkshire
George Vaughan Esg
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Horse Guards
Dublin
Harriet Stratford
Lord Balinglass
Bareith
Count d’Ellrod
Baron de Bulow
Clausthal
Dirk van Mildert
Peckham Rye
Graives
Griffith
Royal
Duke of Gloucester
Williams
St. John’s Street
York
Evers
Rites
Thomas and
Sally
Sadles’s Wells
S. Bladon
Paternester Row
Guidus
Baron de Mon Tesquieu
M. D’alembert
Gwimsy
Rhime
John Sayer
Dryden
Alexander
Mr. Pope
G. Woodfall
C. Marth
Charing- Cross
J. Ridley
F. Knight
Stairss-Street
W. Singler
South-Audley-Street
J. Fletcher
St. Paul’s Church- Yard
R+ Baldwin
Crowder
Pater
Nofter Row
T. Lowndes
Fleet-Street
Cairicat Review
Duke of Cumberland
J. Bartlet
T. Peter
B. Law
Avemary Lane
London
Carvican Review
Farrier
Dr. Hill
R. Baldwin
Bookfeller
Paterenofter Row
St. James’s Street
Hill
Postscript
London Evening Post
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