From English Cruisers to Spanish Privateer Tales
A longExtract covers naval actions near Biscay including a French privateer captured after posing as a Spanish ship, and a later engagement with mutiple ships off the Portsmouth area. It also notes shipments and prizes, mentions court and political changes in London, and reports varied notices from North Wales to Stafford and Edinburgh.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lon Po N
Bay of Biscay
Laibon
Plymouth
Isle of Wight
Spithead
London
Charles II
Great Britain
England
Man
William
France
Germany
Marquis of Granby
Conway
Newcastle
Ireland
Namur
Chester
Minerva
Chapman
Riga
Newcasstle
Brel
Birth Announcement in Two-Ship War Purser’s Steward
A notice in May invites gentlemen with experience to apply for a purser's steward position aboard a two-ship war. A line to R. L. at St Clement's Coffee-house in the Strand will be answered.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Earl of Lincoln
Palace-yard
Westminster
Oatlands
Surry
James-street
St. Margaret’s Church
Deal-Castle
Angel
James Loggy
St. Domingo
Vigo
Henry Herring
Lad-lane
London
R. L
St. Clement's
Strand
Navy-Office
Elven
Forton
Gosport
Boyne
Royal Ann
Eddowes
Portsmouth
John Warford
Chester
White Lion
King’s Head Inn
Castle and Faulcon
Aldersgate
George Smith, and Co
Coventry Machine
Castle and
Falcon Inn
Aldershale
Also Mentioned on This Page
The
Dairy Register of Commerce and Intelligente
Nostra Senora
de Carmo
Meslina
Lisbon
Union
Edwards
Dublin
Quebec
Copeland
Baltimore
Thompson
Hallifax
Nancy
Todd
Providence
Philliskirk
Elizabeth
Yeaman
Gravesend
Levas
Dantzick
St. Antonio
Fanery
Denia
Stén
Edward Jekyll
Clemet tYhirty
Brest
Chaced
Gardner
Christopher Chapman
Pomerania
Copenhagen
East-Indies
Holland
Virginia
Trifirdnt Shandy
Exchange
Strasbourg
St. Jonathan’s
Shandy
Master of the Rolls
Court of Chancery
Earl of Bath
Lord Cadogan
Sir Thomas Clarke
Knt
King’s Bench
Anstruther Eaffer
Kilrenny
Anstruther Vester
Craill
Pettinvieem
Henry Erskine
Bart
Buckinghampire
Wm. Stanhope
Rich. Lowndes
Cardiff
Herbert Mackworth
Denbigh
Richard Myddleton
Durham
Henry Vane
Robert Shaltoe
Durham City
Henry Lambton
John Tempest
Duntar
Lauder
Berwick
Haddington
Fedburgh
Andrew Fletcher
Edingburgh
Geo
Lind
Essex
Wm. Maynard
Harvey
Flinthire
Roger Moltyn
Linlithgow
Charles Hope Weir
Lurry
Francis Vincent
George Onslow
Mr. Handel
St. Magparet’s
Westminster Hospital
North Wales
Flintshire
Hatfield
Hertfordshire
Edinburgh
John Campbell
Stafford
Abraham Durham
Leicester
Thomas Taft
Sarah Cooper
Moniley
William Stevenson
Snape
James Brown
Charles Corber
Richard Pershouse
John Cornhill
Aberdour
Whittit
Charing-cross
Marquis de Valmediana
Villa Franca
Guipuscoa
Treppendorff
Lusatia
Fe’mnight
Edmund Yalden
Dean
Salisbury
Henry Bellenden
Country News
Salisoury
Alexander Powell
Edmund Abbot
Winterborne
Winterborne Stickland
Dorsetshire
Robert Frampton
Coventry
Middleton
Tamworth
Walker
Radcliffe
William Funge
Aylesbury
of Bucks
Dr. Radcliffe
H'S
Robert Boyle
Leon
Abdirch
Abdirch ._Lane
Vol. I
A. D
Mr. Zucker
Pope’s Head Alley
Hickford’s
Panton-Street
Laft
Lad Laney
Kattgate
Northgate
Nantwich
Jr. Hanforth
T. Parr
A. Freelove
M. Griffith
WN. B
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