London and Jamaica shipping news and royal proclamations
Nov 3 to Nov 6 reports arrivals and sailings of ships including the London Merchant, Leonidas, Maidstone, Black Prince Transport, and Hampden with Jamaica and Chester connections. Notes royal funeral preparations and future peerages, a large inheritance bequest, and Parliament plans. Also mentions guard duties, local marriages, fires, robberies, and warnings about child abduction by gossiping women.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Falmouth
Ince
London
Peck
Jamaica
Darling
Stames
Matthews
Plymouth
Leonidas
Tomlinson
Spain
Maidstone
The
Downs
Valenge
Deaths and appointments at Cambridge and Magdalen
The Rev. Mr. Sedgwick Master of Queen’s College and Rector of St Clement’s Eastcheap London has died. The Rev. Dr. Sandby Master of Magdalen College is appointed Vice Chancellor for the coming year. Also a Maidstone Gaol commitment: Jacob Miller charged with highway robbery at Minster in the Isle of Sheppy, taking a silver watch and thirteen pence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marshal Broglio
Germany
Senegal
Goree
Quiberon Bay
Portsmouth
Jamaica
Prince of Orange
Hunt
Harwich
Holland
Helvoerfluys
England
Nicholas Colwell, Batchelor of Laws
Lincoln College
Oxford
Shephall
Hertfordshire
Lincoln
William Lindey
Updale
Leicester
Barton
Cornhill
Leadenhall Street
William Aubrey
Blackwell-hall
Wells
Somersetshire
Somerset Militia
Charles. Kemeys Tynte
Thomas Prowse
Chasing Cross
Epping
Country News
Cambridge
Sedgwick
Queen’s College
St. Clement’s
Eastcheap
London
Sandby
Magdalen College
Maidstone
Jacob Miller
John M‘donald
Edward Huft
Minster
Isle of Sheppy
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Elliot
Weymouth
Unity
Hornsby
William
Prince William Henry
Lord Bure
Lord Downe
Earl of
Egmont
William Irby
Barthedge
Mae
Tuphdy East
Sa Pecer’s
Westisinster
Henry de Seventh
Kithg
Sorel
Prince of Wales
Princess Carolina
Princess Elizabeth
Firecroft
Board of Works
Anne
Duke of Cumberland
Amelia
Princess of Hesse
Countess ‘of
Yarmouth
M. Maubert
Canada
Mistres
St. James’s Haymarket
Whitechapel
Stationers-Hall
Abe Gey
Forencon
Electon
James Dash Wood
Bart
FCA
Gloucester
Barras-hill
Anglesey
Beaumas Vis
Eaith Robart Viner
Cranwell
John Thorold
Cornwall
John Mokfworth
Boscawen
James Buller
County of
Durham
Bowes
Clavering
Tyburn
Uxbridge
Middlesex
Brent-Bridge
Hanwell-Heath
Hanwell
New Brentford
Ealing
Skidmore
Old Hat
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