Spanish Snow of 16 Guns Duel With Dutch Vessel
The account describes a morning encounter with a 16 gun Spanish ship from the Vera Cruz armada. After exchanging broadsides near windward, the Dutch vessel chased, exchanged fire, and disengaged with the Spanish chafing for eleven hours before the Dutch gained the upper hand. Reports also mention Dutch actions against Brafa Vang, a Spanish guarda costa, and a Biscay Company sloop holding Dutch prisoners near Laguetra awaiting reply.
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Barlavento
Vera Cruz
Spain
Brafa Vang
Guarda Costa
Biscay
Laguetra
Diseases and Casualties This Week
A historic record listing diseases and casualties with numbers by age and cause. It includes totals for burials by sex, age brackets, and a note on a bread price order from 1937. Also contains financial items such as South Sea stock and annuities, bank openings, and bond prices.
Mercers Sale of Rich Silk and Damask Fabrics on Ludgate Hill
Mr. Thomas Hincourr of Mercer advertises at the Great Wheat Sheaf on Ludgate Hill a clearance of stock in trade. He offers LL sorts of rich gold and silver brocades waistcoats velvets crepe and satin fabrics including Genoa red damasks and a wide variety of silk silks and other rich materials at very cheap prices.
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Thomas Hincourr
Ludgate-Hill
Stray Bay Gelding Found Near Mrs Coates Grounds Kent
A dark bay gelding about fourteen hands high strayed on Monday the third from the grounds of Mrs Mary Coates in Chislehurst Kent. He has a scar on his forehead, black mane and tail, shore dock, and a white on the off fore behind. A Guinea reward and reasonable charges to Mr Robert Alder at Clerkenwell London for return.
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Ytolen
Mary Coates
Chislehurst
Kent
Robert Alder
Clerkenwell
Lonton
Builders Dictionary or Architects Companion 2 Vols 8vo
Account of Mill d Lead in the Builders Dictionary corrected and republished by A Bettesworth and G Hirch in Pater-noster Row and S Austen in St Paul s Churchyard. Public notice invites information to improve the work and lists price 125.
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Poe
Public Supplement to The Book of Rates 1726 edition
A notice describing a public supplement to the Art of Tonnage and Poundage. It details a folio volume printed for Robert Vincent at the Crown and Sceptre Ludgate Street. It notes statutes related to His Majesty's Customs passed since the early reign of George I and continues to include an alphabetical index.
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George
Robert Vincent
the Crown and Sceptre
Ludgate-street
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