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Admiralty notices and local incidents in a Cumberland-ish gazette
The page lists seamen bounty allocations for volunteers, naval reports from Portsmouth, St John's Antigua and English Harbour, and ships like the Gibraltar, Bristol, Amazon. It notes arrivals, prize captures, and a French privateer taken after a ship retook it, with several clergy and civic appointments, marriages, deaths, robberies, and local misdeeds including a shoe-maker collapsing and a few house incidents. Names include Horcesterfoire, Grimes, Pearkes, Amphlett, Grove, Harden, Bethel, Dixon, Turmer, and Rife, plus captains Stern and Codrington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arokehpiré
William Dilk
Maxtock Cote
William Dixwell Grimes
Coton
David Lewis
MabWern Hall
Horcesterfoire
Charles Trabghawithers
Worcester
Benjamin Pearkes
Salwarp
John Amphlett
Ombersley
Ohn Grove
Ferneames Harden
Mere
William’ Beach
Fiddleton
Hugh Bethel
Gibraltar
Bristol
Keilie
St. John’s Road
English
Barbados
Norton
Passagethe
Snow
Codrington
Antigua
English Harbour
Aguazon
Ichard Huffey
Admiralty
Greenwich Hospital
Peter Best
Felyn J
Six Peter's College
Cambridge
York
South Daltony
Yorkshire
John Prest
St. Stepeny
Saltahh
Cornwall
Allérstone
Feversham
Grosvenor Street
Daysince
Richmond
Surrey
John Lawrence
Sally, Boyield
Markell
Morris
Causeway
Lambeth
Ilness
Clark
Linnen-Draper
Riday
Hawkswell
Beaufort
Jackson
Blue Ball Ale House
Black Friars
St. Andrew Wasdrobe
India
Tod Paler
Thurstay
South
ihudley-Screet
Chappel
go-Chelsea
Sivas
Priday
Uxbridge
Avs Pouig