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Deliverance and prison ship voyage amid tumult and racing results
Narrative recounts a brutal confrontation over Protestant prayer and Papist threats, a night death of a friar, and a seaborne escape with 286 English prisoners aboard the Barrington Tender. It notes a French prize Bezoar captured by Capt Wheeler, ships Ananda and Prince of Wales joining service, and races at a Suffolk town with Redstreak winning amid odd behavior of a horse. Also mentions church appointments, deaths, robberies, and a highwayman incident near Southgate.
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Plymouth
Portfriiduth
Whitfield
Ludlow
Moor
Platt
Gorge
Richard Grosvenor
Romulus
Cornwall
Witch
Redstreak
Nether
Parratt
Shain Fony
Norfolk
Arden
New Callege
Oxford
Charles Mandeville
Wolpit
Suffolk
George Mandevile
Deans Yard
Westminster
Berkshire
Thomas Penn
Pentania
Julian
Esterday
Edward Boothby
Piccadilly
Millbank
Toon
Taft
Battersea
Aberdeen
Ferntoth
Chanonry
Dinwal
William Page
Williams
Gage
Andrew Scor
Worcester
Portsmouth
Brent Coleman
Thomas Price
Joan Roberts
Richard Gregory
Publica
Jacobs
Olen
Will
Old Ti
Southgate
Sporson
Chace