Fighting a French frigate near Plymouth in January
A Plymouth letter dated January 1 recounts an afternoon engagement with a French king's frigate. The English vessel touched sides, with around one hundred enemy dead on deck and eleven English killed, thirty eight wounded. The captain commanded with courage while repairing damage that prevented pursuit. Additional fleet movements and arrivals from Portsmouth, Fowey, and Jamaica are noted, including ships sailing for West Indies and other ports.
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Plymouth
Smith
Pisto
Meeting to Nominate County Candidates for Parliament
An order from 1761 calls a meeting at Epsom on Thursday the 22nd instant at eleven to consider two men to represent the county in the next Parliament. Listed by Lawson, Navy Office notices follow about ship hull sales at Portsmouth Chatham and Sheerness with viewing times and a 25 percent deposit. Also notices on funds to pay old bills and tenders for provisions for sick and wounded seamen with details of supplies and contact points.
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Navy
Edwin Lascelles, Esq
Elf
County of
York
Alexander Gilmore, Ball
Edinburgh
Robert Dundas
Scotland
Earl of Northumberland
Dukes of York and Cumberland
Amelia
Boscawen
Huske’s
Blackfriars
Blagden
Moorgate
Fore-street
Cripplegate
Dickson
Spencer
Peckham Gap
Peckham
London
Shepherd’s Bush
New Prison
Justice Scott
Harry Weals
Emanuel Brown
John Haldstadt
Thomas Brown
Robert Gilchrist
John Staples
Brown
Gilchrist
Wapping
Willes
St. Michael, Cornhi
Driver’s Company
Cambridge
Charles Sloane Cadogan
Soame Jenyns
Rowland
George Wheeler
Spital-Fields
Duke of
St. Margaret’s
Westminster
Blatch
Miss Gould
Tothill Street
Sir George Armytage
Kirklees
Hatchlands
Tregothen
Cornwall
Senegal
Pierson
Bath
Brown Sands
Islington
Wm. Whitton
Yarmouth
Smart’s Key
Kensington Palace
Nobbs
Gregory
Westminister
Jane Delamotte
Charles Delamotte
Hull
Mr. Griffith
St. Bartholomew’s Hospital
Lawfylling
Ellis Jones
Owen Shane Adam
Montgomery
Plantation News
New York
Amhers
Shirley
Oswego
Boston
Tucker
Tozer
Quebec
St. Laurence
Southwark
Jaid
Epsom
Lawson
Navy Office
Majesy
Jing
Portmouth
King
Chatham
Gibraltar
Sheernet
His Majesty's Navy
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Haflar
Forton Hospital
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Peter
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Potts
Maryland
Atkins
Alexander
Jupiter
Bull
Brett
Skelton
Dashwood
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Catton
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Punter
Scipio
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Coombe
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Trump
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Centaur
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Royal William, &c
Norwich
Ogilvie
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Louisburgh
Connelly
Sind
Fowey
Fan
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Seville
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Sheili
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Pruaffia
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Torgau
Leipfic
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Forsten
Wouden
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Sacred Congregation of Rites
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Fok J. Williams
Ludgate
Hill
SURRY
Peele
Fleet-Street
John Applebee
South-Sea
Westerham
Kent
Earle’s Wood
Oxtstead
LLOYD
Lombard-street
Hermitage
Thomas Arbuthnot
John Hutchinson
Lloyd's Coffee
Lombard-freet
TWO Sisters
Virginia
Bell Wharf
Joseph Richards
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