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Early 18th Century Shipping News from Portsmouth and Lyme
An extract recounts naval movements and privateer actions near Spithead and the Channel. Vessels like the Man of War Winchester and Beaver sail with convoys for Plymouth and the Downs, while Montague arrives from Guernsey with wine. Reports also note a Lisbon exchange about a French privateer and a Bristol privateer capture, plus marriage notices and militia news in Enfield.
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Portsmouth
Winchester
L’crass
Spithead
Plymouth
Alfoithe Beaver
Gascoine
the Downs
Plaas Schwarz
Matter
Hamburgh
Montague
Nichols Priaulx
Guernsey
Southampton
Port
Chichester
Gilchrist
Wight
Samuel
Walliam
Fenn
Exeter
Oporto
Guy
John Feny Matter
Dublin
Tyloe
France
Phoenix
Bowen
Cork
London
Willian
Lisbon
England
Portugueze
Ik Bok
Brest
Bristol
Stith
Milford
Yarmouth
Portland
Providence
Henderson
Norwich
Dungenes
Bamfield
St. Kit’s
Guarffaiorpe
America
Ormsby
Norfolk
Robbertson
Leicester Fields
Ake
King’s Head
Enfield
South-Mims
Hadley
Edmonton
Marquis of
Carnarvon
William Beauchamp Proctor
John
City of
Chester
Richard Richardson
Robert Lloyd
Thomas Craven
Thomas Corgreave
Peter
Eligmes
Aldermien
Thomas Randley
Thomas Marsden
Fearmiall
Pemberton
Ernst Dapyet
Persia