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Wounded King note and fleet news from London to Hull
French plot report describes an attempted assassination of the king with a note delivered to a magistrate and the suspect de Breuil likely involved. Navy crews press ships for provisioning. privateers and captured vessels recur near Bridlington and the Downs. Updates on naval actions, church appointments, baptisms, marriages, deaths, and local crime alerts accompany a broad 18th century news digest.
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Paris
de Breuil
Agor
Camry
Hull
Brook
Meard
King
David
Wallace
Rochelle
Dover
Roe
Killibeggs
Leghorn
Marseilles
Bodens
Guards
John Hoper
Bennet Gracechurch
Hesketh
Stenning
Sussex
Jobn Greatorex
Duke of Buccleugh
Great
Henry Stawell
Duke of Grafton
Earl of
Jeremiah Pugh
Lombard-Street
Penelope Kite
Tower-Hill
Grace
Croyde
Thomas Herring
Canterbury
All England
Corporation of the Sons of the Clergy
Charterhouse
Blis Grace
Bangor
Cecil
York
Blackburn
Potter
Mire Payne
Matham-street
Westminter
Westerday
Ms. Robinson
Beau