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Ships seized and privateers menace English coast in 18th century report
Reported naval prizes include two Dutch vessels laden with anchors and rigging seized by cutters and sent to Dover Pier, and the Palliser recaptured London bound goods carried to Salem. The Viper captured the French privateer L Amiable Nannette and sent it to Ramsey Bay. Coastal gale damages in Holland noted with wrecks and fatalities. Also details on treasury salaries, a shopman’s theft ring, a fatal street accident, a warehouse fire, and clerical promotions and deaths in Dublin and London society.
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Amsterdam
Dover
Lisbon
Tobago
London
Salem
Ramsey Bay
Mann
Lester
Harwich
Holland
King’s Bench
John Fielding
Thomas Laing
Wenesday
Mellrs
Jeffries and Janes
Cockpur Street
Taylor
Duke’s Court
Drury-lane
Teal
Jeffries and Jones
Messrs
Picker
Jeffrs
Cox and Co
St. Magnus’s
Dyers Lane
Spittlefelds
Olsek Eyre
Ambresden
Bicetter
Oxfordshire
Wm. Dart
Stratton
Somersetshire
Dublin
Oliver Crofton
Robert Griffin
Tusdday
Hampton Wyck
Middlesex
Henry Martin
Bank
Inwood
South Sea House
Worgan
White Horse
Threadneedle Street