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Fragmented 18th century coastal dispatches and trials
A dense note from Deal with pirate and naval dispatches, port reports, and shifts of command. It covers the Unicorn engagement and Captain Hunt’s death, ships captured or damaged, and village trials at Old Bailey and Hickes’s Hall. Also reports on tax debate, public notices, ship movements, and local ceremonies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mount Edgecombe
Hunt
Nicorn
Joseph Hunt
Peegy
Pinkhorn
London
Quebec
Brest
Plymouth
Courageux
Malicieuse
Amviere
West Indies
New York
Jason
Eddystone
Portsmouth
Portmouth
Royal Sovereign
Mamur
Valiant
Pembroke
Nottingham
Herificant
Cormorant
Ambulcad
Lightning
Magnanime
Flamborough
Spitheady
the Royal
Anne
Sandwich
Young
Seahorse
Bencoolen
Lord Howe
Stirling
Sessons
Old Bailey
John Irwin
John Jay
Hyde Park
Alice Holloway
Richard Glynn
Abraham Burton
Ann Bush
James Matthews
John Beverstock
James Skeltor
Elizabeth Williams
Susanna Yeomans
É&C
Alice Thompson
Thomas Keele
George Bannister
Samuel Arnold
Thomas Fearce
Mary
Adams
Cardinal
Boswell
Couirt
Thames
Trinity House
England
Wakefield
Yorkshire
Mr. Marth, Rettor
Sigston
North Riding of Yorkshire
Mills Wheatley
Leeds
Francis Milner
John Howel
St. Albans