Privateers cruise near Guernsey and Bas Morlaix Roch Doure
Reports from Southampton and Furie describe a new Spanish brigantine privateer of about 90 tons with eight carriage guns and 45 men patrolling off Guernsey to intercept West Indies bound ships. Another brigantine privateer and four rowboats are active between Bas near Morlaix and Roch Doure near Jersey, having taken two prizes. Elizabeth and Durell, Pitton, reached Guernsey from Barbados in 40 days. Pitton says Barbados reported Cartagena and nearby fort taken, a claim since reinforced by another account of forts and castles captured.
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Southampton
Furie
Flight
Guernsey
Sparks
West-Indies
Bas
Morlaix
Roch Doure
Jersey
Elizabeth
Durell
Pitton
Barbados
Carthagena
London Gentry and naval news and obituaries mix in period notices
London reports boastful officers facing no fear of prosecutions funded by secret service money. Obituaries mark Maurice Lewis of Middle Temple, widow Chapman of Guildford and Portsmouth coaches, and others. The Biscain privateer returns to Limehouse with 23 English prizes. royal residences, naval squadrons, and Parliament petitions feature amid social notices and death reports from Dover Street to Dublin.
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London
R—t—m—g
K Service
Isle of
Anglesea
Maurice Lewis
Middle-Temple
Crown
Southwark
Chapman
Guildford
Portsmouth
Biscain
Limehouse
Leicester House
George Saville
Norfolk House
John Norris
Mons. de Buffy
France
Holland
Hanover
Coventry
William Gage
Ely
Portugal
Thomas Gage
Hengrave
Suffolk
Ellis
St. Edmund’s Bury
Earl of Oxford and Mortimer
Dover-Street
Wandworth
James Marriott
Spelmonden
Kent
Wandsworth
Lord Mordington
Mark-Lane
Galloway
St. Christopher’s
St. Katherine’s Parish
Dublin
Mary Hall
White
Multiple Deaths and Naval News in London and Abroad
A dated London notice lists several deaths including Master of the Rolls and merchants in Princes-street, Gravel Lane, Fore-Street, Water-Lane, and Southampton-street. It notes a Thames drowning, prize captures by Argyle and Enterprize, and a shipwreck near Beachy Head. Weathered circuits and official appointments are reported along with stock prices and maritime alerts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rolls
Mr. Theroad
Princes-street
Broad-street
Gravel Lane
Ratcliff
Carrier
Commissioners of the Customs
Chapmore
Fore-Street
Moorfields
Foster
Water-Lane
Yetterday
Tho
Medlycott
Southampton-street
Bloomsbury
Eltham
Marlett
Paul’s Wharf
Butler
Bristol
St. Paul’s
Joseph Butler
Shadwell
Thames
Coal Harbour
Phere
Robert Brook
Walter Brook
Dowgate-Hill
Argyle
Falmouth
Ireland
France
Wood
Dover
Barbadooes
Ducy
Elizabeth
Portsmouth
Troy
Lisbon
Dublin
Str. Sebastians
Thomas Castleton
John
Yarmouth
Milford
Beachys Head
Montferrat
Leeward
Alfizes
Norfolk
Lee
Baron Carter
Bucks
Buckingham
Bedfordshire
Bedford
Huntington
Cambridge
Suffolk
Bury St. Edmund’s
Norwich
City of
London
Whitehall
Richard Plumpton
Anthony Corbiere
Thomas Gordon
Henry Harris
Efgrs
William Adams
South Sea
New South Sea
Bank
India
Royal Exchange Assurance
Mine Adventurers
Exchequer
Rami
Duicount
Money Ent on Mortgages of Land and Government Securities
An advertisement invites all persons with business in mortgages on land houses and four government securities plus estates annuities and ad hoc pensions to transact in a general manner on moderate terms. Intents should be signified by a letter to A. Z. at the Rainbow Coffee House in Cornhill. A good price is offered for reversion of estates and annuities payable during the buyer's life.
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London Assurance House
London Assurance Corporation
Cornhill
London
A. Z
Rainbow
N. B
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Lewet
Sussex
Fames Butler
Deceasd
Apaien Hall
Thomas Sergison
Lewes
Middlesex
John Waite
Bank of England
Laav
David Legros
Mary
Tolen
Thomas Piper
Haverill
Essex
Thomas
Piper
James Wariner
Stoke Newington
Maxwell
Bilhour