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English Sailors and Spanish Habits Clash at Sea
English sailors guard the Caracca ship and mock Spanish discipline while a Dominican friar among them shows temper. News from Bordeaux notes St John of Waterford voyage disrupted by a privateer under French colors near Dublin, with ships in Plymouth and Milford Haven unsettled. reports doubt French privateers. India Company directors appoint supercargoes. Local events include marriages, obituaries, the Ipswich bailiffs, and multiple London riots at Spitalfields with magistrates and guards, Woolwich yard work stoppage, and crime notes of robberies and arrests.
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Caracca
Don Philip
Don Thomas
Haverfordwest
Milford Haven
Plymouth
Page
Plant
Hodgson
Lyell
Love
Pearkes
Haggard
Gough
Sears
Bercawen
Martin
Wood
Cart
Freeman
India Company
Wilmot
Norfolk Street
Strand
Miss Bail
Richard Skrine
Warley
Windsor
Redman
London
William Warren
Houndsditch
Brentford
Middlesex
Solomon Heathcote
Earl of Pembroke
John Fladger
St. John’s, Chrkenwell
St. Nicholas On
Abington
Berks
Samuel Maofket
Peter Bellamy
James Crane
James Barton
John Butter
William Dunn
Robert Barnard
Richard Starkey
George Chandler
Thomas Scott
Newgate
Harwood
Peck
Fowke
New Prison
Spittlefields
Woolwich
Cambridge
St. Ives
Fen-Stanton
St. James’s Square
William, Clarke
Margaret Newell
John Gonfon
Col. de Veil
Tothill Fields Bridewell
Henry Chapman
James Mackartney
Anne Johnson
Martha Hopkins
Willson and
Rage
Johnson
Brett
Willson
Galloway Tom
Prince William
Harrison
Oporto
Hannah
Mitchell
Riga