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Port and Sale Notices and Advertisements From Swanzey to London
A fragmentary 1718 newspaper page notes a Swedish privateer sighting near Guernsey, several arrivals including the Adventure and others from Virginia Jamaica and Gibraltar, plus royal court movements. It advertises coffee-house fund claims, punchhouse sales of brandy, staged coaches, and various quack medicines, books, and instruments with prices and locations in London and Bristol.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Swanzey
John and Mary
Guernsey
Balast
Portsmouth
Adventure
Virginia
Anne of Weymouth
Maryland
Friends Goodwill
Jamaica
Janes
Hay
Gibraltar
Wind
Salisbury Street
Southampton Street
Strand
London
Bach
Bristol
Thomas Baldwin
Citizen
Cooper
Crown Inn
Slough
Windsor
Bowling Green House
New Church
May Pole
John Tilley
Swan Yard
Somerset House
John Howard
Chequer Court
Charing Cross
Bath
Mrs
Bells Bookseller
Cross Keysland
Cornhil
Royal Exchange
England
Halsey
Bootseller
St Michael’s Church
Markham
Dunstan
Fleetstreet
Breadneedle
Don
Edward Steward
Peter
Epei
St. Mary Axe
John Moore
Abchard Lane
Europe
Mercury
Great- Britain
H’ Rhodes
Fries
Vaa
Elizabeth Harris Rice
Echard
Dean Prideaux
Laurence’ Echard
Jacob Fonda
Hato
Francisco Geminiani