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Notices of Plague and Port Royal Ventures in Seventeenth Century Kent
Reports detail the burial of John Hyde in Sundridge Parish Church family chancel, plus scattered dispatches on foreign mediation with Cardinal Fleury, naval movements, and riots near Colchester. Mentions of Sarah Begches’s 103rd birthday, grain markets, and disturbances at Bures and Colchester accompany updates from Jamaica and Porto Bello with letters from Vernon and Haddock outlining fleet movements and engagements.
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Sundidge-Place
Kent
John Hyde
Hydes
Strode Hyde
Aris
Cardinal de Fleury
London
Madrid
Frace
Merrow-Downs
Guildford
Lord Pormore
Michael Newton
Mr. Martindale
Quarry-hill
Tunbridge
Birs
Sarah Begches
Fox Star
Betterers
Wood-street
Seaton
Barney
Colchester
Sie Hythe
Bures
Bullington
Turthay
Bishop-Stortford
Hertfordshire
Sheer-Lane
Temple-bar
Burt
William Creake
John Lade
Jamaica
Robert Henry
Eleanor
Admiral Vernon
Porto-bello
Panama
James
Falmouuh
Naples
Nieflina
Lisbon
Chara Portuguezé
Thames
Portugal
Norway
Anne
Townsend
Liverpool
Africa
Calavar
Angola
Rhode Hland
Vera Cruz
Havanna
Cath
New York
Old Harbour
Porto Bello
Carrhagena
Vernon
Pelio
Carthagena
Burro Bello
Chagre
Dou Bials
London Gazette
Whitehall
Stratford
Port Rey
Falmouth
Port Royal
Strafford
Burford
Watson
Torrington
Commodore Brown
Pom Royal
Windham
Greenwich
St. Jago
South Sea Company
Wallis