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Newspaper

Public Ledger

Location

London, Middlesex, United Kingdom

Date

Apr 17, 1761

Page

2

Shipping News From St Kitts to Dublin and Halifax

Extracts detail arrivals and sails of multiple ships including the Quebec Bishop Ruby Hawke Granby Prince William Mary Carnarvon Jupiter Bischoff and others at various ports such as St Kitts Bristol London Teneriff Lisbon Derry and Isle of Man. Reports note Royal Navy movements from Portsmouth and Spithead with ships Nassau Union Chichester and St Andrew, plus troop numbers in Belleisle and plans for campaigns in Saxony and Silesia, with tax ideas and desertion punishments from Spain.

Quebec Bishop Africa Ruby Bristol St Kitts Hawke Newton London Bostons Granby Furlong Teneriff Prince ‘William Kimbal Sea Flower Green Monte Christi Lisbon Jupiter Hamilton New York Derry Bischoff Poert Rotterdam Isle of Man Mary, Brown Guadalupe Carnarvon Jones Chester Portsmouth St. Helens His Nassau Light Horse Friendship Young Cork Minerva Hood Hopewell Caldwell Spithead Union Milford Prince, Union Chichester St. Andrew Dublin Windsor France Belleisle Regiment of Arragon Carthagena West Indies Spain Tate

Newmarket Race Day Book Ends Amid Thin Attendance

Report from Newmarket on Monday and Tuesday shows Duke of Devonshire’s colt forfeiting to Lord Orford’s Bay Filly, with Bay Filly defeating Exotick and other entries for 100 guineas. The meeting features many forfeit matches, a cock match, and wagers, amid a thin turnout and notable aristocratic presence.

Duke of Devonshire Lord Orford Mr. Grevil Mr. Feathrton Sir J. Moore Lord Chedworth C.sedley Lord Waldegrave Duke of Kingston Duke of Richmond Bolance Lord Portmore Acton Middlesex

Obituary notes and election day bells in Leeds and Tunbridge

A collage of late 18th century notices records deaths in Carmarthenshire Lincoln's Inn and Tunbridge Master Cawthorne rector Griffifth Jones and William Perkins among the deceased. It also covers Leeds county election day feats with a large peal of changes and youths boasting superiority. Jamaica rum and brandy prices are advertised alongside a speech impediment cure by William Penry at the Golden Head.

Battweek Llandowror Carmarthenshire Griffifth Jones Lincoln’s Inn William Perkins Chancery Cawthorne Free Grammar School Tunbridge Country News Leeds Kent Robert Fairfax Wyndham Knatchbull James Thomas Abrahane Barham Henry William Filby Thomas Lacy John Crisp Richard Masters James Hampton William Davis Edward Cook William Harwood Stephen Bayly John Baorah William Penry Golden Head Idington

Navy Office announces half pay to sea officers in 1760

On April 13 1761 the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury announce half pay for sea officers from January 1 to June 30 1760. Payments start April 27 at the Treasurer of the Navy Office Broad Street at 10 am and continue the next day. Attendees must bring affidavits and certificates showing no public employment and compliance with oath and test acts. attorneys may present certificates for their clients.

Navy-Office Lords His Majesty’s Treasury Navy Broad-street

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