Appointments and naval notices from the Gazette
The King names officials including Reciever General of Stamp Duties and Inspectors of Out Ports Accounts. Others named as Commissioners for sale of French prizes and for Appeals. Admiralty report: Sultan privateer captured after 26 hours. various orders for troops, transports, and provisioning. Additional items cover market prices for French pears, deaths, elections, and coastal defenses.
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Morgan Vane
John Hughton
England
Wales
Berwick Upon Tweed
William Sharpe
Privy Council
Thomas Parry
Efys
George “Aufrere
Robert Featherstonehaugh
George Wombwell
John Barker
Timothy Brett
Robert Wilson
Henry Saxby
Albert Nesbitt
John Clevland the Younger
John Eames
John Gwilt
John Paul Yvonnet
Edward Montague
Robert Coney
John Cawflade
John Bridger the Younger
Charles Lloyd
Bayonne
George Duke of
St. Albans
Costos Rotulorum
Berkshire
Infert
Vere Beauclerk
Lord Vere
Notice of Oyer and Terminer session in London
Admiralty Office announces a March 30 session at Fleet Street Hall Old Bailey for trials of offenses on the high seas under the act for seamen and navy enforcement. The notice cites the 32nd year of the late king and the aim to curb piracy and private ship robberies.
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Admiralty Office
Admiralty of
England
Furtice-Hall
Old Bailey
London
East-India House Notice on Bonds and Interest
The Court of Directors of the United Company of Merchants of Baghisi and the East Indies announce an interest rate of five pounds per cent per year on the company's bonds starting March next. They will not reduce this rate without six months notice and will issue new bonds at 100l in exchange for worn or damaged bonds from March 318th, paying one shilling sixpence for stamping.
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East-India House
Euch
Robert James
Anniversary Feast of the Magdalen House Charity at Drapers Hall
The Governors of the Magdalen House Charity will hold a feast at Drapers Hall Throgmorton Street on Thursday March 12 after a sermon at St Brides Fleet Street before the Earl of Hertford, with Handel anthems performed by Beard and a band. Tickets five shillings are available at coffee houses and from the secretary in Old Broad Street. Doors open at ten, prayers at eleven, dinner at three sharp.
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Kent
St. James’s
Durham
Earl of
Ireland
Admiralty Office
de Seeport
Amsterdam
Sipke Claren
Bayonne
Dungeness
Prince George
Greenway
Philadelphia
Carolina
London
Magdalen House Charity
Prescot Street
Goodman’s Fields
Draper’s Hall
Throgmorton Street
St. Brides
Fleet Street
Earl of Hertford
Richard Pococke
Bishop
Ofory
Ste.wards
Earl of Bath
Earl
Batfon's
John’s
Cornhill
Richard's
Temple Bar
Horn
Arthur’s
Mount’s
Grosvenor Street
Winterbottom
Old Broad Street
Mr. Beard
Mr. Handel
Duke of Chandos
Cannons
Junie
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Danny
Commerce and Intelligence
Constantinople
Naples
Berlina
Othman
Order of Malta
Order
Sultana
Earl of Tankerville
Plymouth
Oxfordshire
Clive
Shrewsbury
Lord Talbot
Great Britain
Justice Dennison
Justice Foster
Chelmsford
Oxford
Baron Adams
Haac Darking
Dumas
Hambledon
Harrison
Benson
Nettlebed
Robert Gammon
Bradgnorth
Bewdly Bridge
Radcliff Cross
John Jepson
Holbeach
Lincolnshire
John Felton
Harwich
Holland
Chancery-lane
Pacquet
Langston
Justice Feilding
New Prison
Berkley-square
Southwark
Surry
Edward Jones
John Crook
John Johnson
John Nalder
Richard Cole
Matthew Dwyre
Guildhall
Tew
Jepson
King’s College
Cambridge
Fisher
St. John’s College of Bachelor of Physic
Dr. Scomberg
Hackney
Church of England
Martin Lewen
Muswellhill
Cabelstreet
Wellclose Square
Ogle
Smithfield-Market
Bitton
Somersetshire
Jane Fudge
Bath
Rebecca Kilby
Westminster Abbey
Fhomas Nicholson
Warwick
Chatham
Kingston
Nassau
Buckingham
Blackstakes
Whitmore
Portsmouth
Gosport
Geary
Spithead
Rodrey
North Street
Leftwithiel
John Elliott
William
Thomas Elliott
Caw
William Bligh
Biddeford
Satten
Navy Office
His Majesty
Perfoxs
His Majesty’s Navy
Tawa
Dale Ingram
Christ’s Hospital
Bes House
Fenchurch-street
A. S
Burton
Cheapside
Lloyd’s Coffee
Lombard Street
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