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Greenwich Market Petition Spurs Town Grant Plan
In Greenwich the principal gentlemen petitioned for a market grant to ease long laboring inconveniences and have already marked a ground spot for a future market likely to rival nearby towns. Reports note sales by the Dutch East India Company and expected price movements to determine smugglers’ gains. Also covered are arrests, indictments, Old Bailey sessions outcomes, a seizure of Spanish liquorice, ship incidents, and military dispatches from Lisbon, Naples, Genoa, and Paris with notes on Corsica and Tuscany.
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Greenwich
Dutch East India Company
Jes
Antill
Newgate
Richard Brocas
Ed. Eveleigh
Spittlefields
Edward Rowe
Gibson
Islington
Thomas Hornbrook
Thomas Merry
John Thomas
Stephens
Thomas Dwyer
James O
Sir John Norris
Lisbon
Admiralty
Straits
Ireland
Linnen
Naples
Genoa
Republick
Corsica
Florence
Duke de Montemar
Spain
Tuscany
Parma
Placentia
Paris
Barcelona