Privateers and Fleet Actions Report from Oporto and Guernsey
Extracts describe near Oporto a privateer chase with a well armed ship, a captured privateer vessel, and the Potent mentions of a Dutch ship encounter. Letters from France claim coastal fortifications and large forces, while French merchants push trade forward despite tensions. Reports include town fires, marriages and deaths, court rulings, and naval movements around Spithead and St Helens. The Union, a New York bound ship, was captured by Spaniards. a daring raid by Capt Colt and crew on the Boyd Snow earned Jamaica port entry and a swift escape. The London Gazette notes the Lord Mayor’s visit to the king on his return.
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Oporto
O. S
Christopher Card
Vigo
Newfoundland
France
Dunkirk
Graveline
Great Britain
England
King’s Bench
Guildhall
Lee
Common Council
Vimy
Gloucestershire
de Lord Talbot
Barrington
Froom
Somersetshire
Ascher
Spithead
St. Hellens
W.S. W
Sis
Mazarion
Mounts Bay
Swift
Edwards
Cosk
Duke of Argyle
Brudenell Street
Samuel Clay
St. John’s Street
Sally Brown
Attleborough
Richard Cheek
Chelsea
Ely
Chelsea Church
Ellers
Laft
Audley Chapel
Grosvenor-square
Henry Warcopp
Charing- Cross
Linnen-Draper
Dorothy Wynne
Sergeant Wynne
Webb
Hampstal-Ridware
Litchfield
Staffordshire
Boycott
Doctors Commons
William Webb
Croxal
Middleton
Riffean
the Treasury
Arnold
Vincent
Deceas
London
Hoblin
College-Green
Bristol
House of Commons
Anne Howard
William Meers
Edward Madder
Thomas Clack
Eleanor Mumpman
William Duell
Margery Stanton
Edward Madders
Richard Quale
John Glass
St. Clement’s Church
Col. de Veil
Richard Lamb
Bridewell
Guernsey
Rye
Union
Tackness
New York
Britto
Colt
Boyd Snow
St. Christopher’s
Jamaica
Port Royal
Court
Carthagena
London Gazette
St. James’s
City of London
Duke of Grafton
Houthold
John Strange