Maritime and criminal notices from Bristol and beyond
Reports from Bristol recount rough seas with gales that felled trees and damaged houses while ships like the Sarah and Francis were lost or saved near Dublin and the Channel. London crime items include a lace theft, a murder by a blacksmith, prison transfers, executions, and a dangerous transport voyage where several convicts drowned trying to reach Bristol.
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Earl of
St. Michael and St. James
Scarborough
France
Sarah
Francis
Hill
North Bull
Dublin
Kent
Boulton
Hull
Brockway
Williams
Beard
Gurney
Wales
Brecknock
Cork
Duggan
Westminster
Compters
Bridewell
Newgate
Ludgate Hill
Ludgate
St. Giles’s
Hufvand
Worcester
R. New
William Manley
Stafford
Mirdex
Bristol
New
Vaughan
Virginia
Conge d Elite Granted For Salisbury Bishopric See
The Crown grants conge d elite to elect Thomas Sherlock as Bishop of Salisbury after the translation of Benjamin Hoadly to Winchester. Market notes list South Sea stocks and bonds alongside opening prices and per cent yields including South Sea Stock 82 and Bank 141.
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Whitehall
Salisbury
Thomas Sherlock
Bangor
Benjamin Hoadly
Winchester
South Sea
New South Sea
Bank
Prem
India
York Buildings
Royal Xchange Assurance
London Assurance
Ocean History No 143 Reign of William III Critique
This Day is published, No. 143, fourth of 24th volume, Ocean History by Mr Salmon. It offers critique of Burnet and Rapin, arguing for truth and impartiality in recounting Great Britain and Ireland. Publisher J Roberts Warwick Lane, price 1s, weekly numbers promised to cover England and Ireland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Great Britain and Ireland
Salmon
WiLliam the Third
Bishop Burnet
Burnet
Rapin
J. Roberts
Warwick Lane
Ireland
George Faulkner
York Street
Dublin
Lemuel Gulliver
A. Pops
Continental War News Briefs from Sept 25
Postscript reports from Holland Milan dated Sept 25 note 1X thousand French recruits arriving in the city as part of 15,000 expected. Te Deum sung for Guastalla victory. Allied forces total 22,000 infantry and 13,000 horse. Naples rumors claim a young King appointed chevalier de St George grand Admiral. Mantua reports 2,000 recruits, plus Croatians and garrison. 2,000 more expected in Tyrol. Forty French officers sent to Vienna. Vienna notes a third engagement. Lombardy says last battle was desperate. Corenhagemen cites treaty for LooasMen. Prince of Orange leaves Heidelberg for Mentz en route to Holland.
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Holland
Milan
Guastalla
Rome
Naples
Vienna
Lombardy
Constantinople
Bonneval
Boffin
Hambourg
Corenhagém
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Abingdon
White Horse Inn
Wood-street
Bolland Tun Inn
Fleet-street
William Turner
Wimbleton
Surrey
Kinghton
Croydon
London
Crabling
Hopkins
Lombard-street
William Collins
Cavendish Square
Robert Albany
Oxford Chapel
Calimancoe
Gos
William Mount
Thomas Page
Tower-Hill
Euclid
Isaac Barrow
Humphry Ditton
Philip Bamford
Excise
Samuels Heynes
Cadbury
John Wing
Sharp
Sherwin
Roger Rea
Thomas Hafelden
Havania
Ciba
James Phelps
Postscript
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