Seafaring Names and Origins Across Ports
The list names captains and crew at various ports with origins: Leostoff Hops Hendrickson from Bremen. Susannah from Virginia at Dover. M'Iver from Onego aboard Free Briton at Yarmouth. Argo Cutler from the Straits at Ostend. Panther Trenholm from Onego at Scarborough.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leostoff
Hops
Hendrickson
Bremen
Dover
Susannah
Virginia
Yarmouth
M‘iver
Onego
Ostend
Argo
Cutler
the Straits
Scarborough
Panther
Trenholm
London News Roundup From Levee To Trials
Yesterday there was a Levee at St James s and a royal departure for Richmond. Duke of York and other nobles travelled from Pall Mall and Berkeley Square amid grand council hints. Reports cover pensions for long-serving yards workers, Dutch stock moves, French beef orders in Ireland, Baltic and Prussian activities, naval incidents, a duel in Chelsea fields, clergy appointments, births and deaths, plus legal sentences at the Old Bailey and Guildhall adjournments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
St. James’s
Richmond
Duke of York
Pall Mall
Duke of Marlborough
Blenheim
Earl of
Newnham
Warwickshire
Cockpit
Whitehall
Canterbury
Ar. Onslow
Jfan
Holland
Ireland
Paris
Mogador
Barbary
Cadiz
Havannah
Madrid
Cainpeachy
Cordoue
Warsaw
Potocki
Lithuania
Countess
Kostakowska
Kamm
Halicz
Stept
Frankfort
Prussia
Lower Rhine
Reward for Thomas Armstrong after suspected forgery escape
Thomas Armstrong was apprehended on forgery suspicion and fled along a road from Darlington to Northallerton. A reward of one hundred pounds is offered for his recapture and commitment to gaol, to be paid by Robert Lewis of the Bank of England. Armstrong, aged about 20 to 30, 5 feet 9 or 10 inches, slender, dark brown hair, clothing described, formerly a clerk at Meff Drummonds Bankers in Charing Cross, now with his father near Newcastle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas Armstrong
Darlington
Northallerton
Yorkshire
Robert Lewis
Bank of England
Meff
Drummonds
Charing Cross
Pathblade
Newcastle Upon Tyne
Notice to subscribers of statutes at large in quarto
The text requests subscribers to send names addresses and places of abode to the reference bookfellows and asks bookfell ers to send lists to Cornish at the King's Printing-house Blackfriars before November. The work is nearly completed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Owen Burenead
Cornish
Blackfriars
Whitebarns House and Farm Estate Near London Sale
A substantial brick house named Whitebarns with extensive outbuildings and kitchen gardens, stabling for thirteen horses, water features, a churchyard, and a grove on about 100 acres with fruit trees. Includes a farm house with barns, stables, dairy, and two parishes rights to great tythes. leasehold for three lives, within thirty four miles of London. For details contact Mr John Cooyer at Nando’s Coffee-house Temple Bar.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Whitebarns
Furnenx Pelham
Hertford
London
Brest Pelham
Furneux Pelham
County of Hertford
N.B
Sc. Paul’s
John Cooyer
Nando’s
Temple- Bar
Address from Halifax criticizes Merges over press freedom and war fears
A Halifax writer signs as AMINADAB PEACELOYVE urging restraint and praise for peaceful policy, condemning inflammatory rhetoric and warning against war. The letter questions ministerial propaganda about the North Briton manuscript and defends Wilkes's papers, arguing against government persecutions.
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Boni Brigié
Maguire
Kinskay
Wm. Cornwallis
Bonacre
Okes
East Indies
Kitty
Hamburgh
Canaries
Elbe
Chelsea-fields
Thomas Knowles
Clayton
York
Jenkin
Bridewell
Kempton
Bedfordshire
Humphry Monoux
Joseph Wortley
Kennington Lane
George
Charlotte
Laft
Houe
Lincoln’s-Inn-Fields
George Mayburn
Woolwich
William Corderoy
Royal Navy
James Scofield
Sarah Perry
St. Gregory
Newgate
John Jones
Goldsmiths Hall
Fleec-Lane
Baily
Veritas
Werssats and Co
Numbenr
F. Sumpter
Mockfeller
St. Brid’s Church
Fleet-Street
Ware
Clowes
Numser F. Price
William Luker
Phillivs
New Brenford
Pembroke
Oxford
Thorowgood
I. P&ttinger
Bardana
Hill
Baldwin
Bookfeller
Paternofter-Row
Jackson
Bookfellers
St. Jame ‘S Street
Bouile
Edinburgh
Postscript
London Evening Post
Mergs
Fife
Lanthorn
Myers
Cale
Marcus
Meres
Aminadab
Halifax
Wilkes
Mr. Wilkes
Asia
Pratt
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