Odd Pillarlike Object Quarrels Ignite Shipyard Disturbances
A fragment describes a curved, fluted object with thornlike prickles and four rounded heads, admired by virtuosi. The report covers Crown Navy notices, theft and assault cases in Wapping, Kentish Town, and Chelmsford, a public hanging cut short, marriages and deaths, and a nautical sale of old stores at Sheerness with terms for bidders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wapping
Antonio Silva
Bartholomew Ma Jahan
Newgate
Samuel Leetch
Chelmsford
Kentish Town
Pancras
Kensington Church
Thomas Chapman
Rawlins
May
Bell Yard
Navy Office
His Majesty’s Navy
His Majesty
Sheerness
Crown
Dragoons
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Sale notices on goods and assets from London and Plymouth
The advertisement lists multiple sales and items including life annuities in East India bonds, merchandise and cargo salvaged from the ship Neptune, skins and catalogues, and rigging gear. Funds and interests are appraised for private inquiry, with sales at Crown Office, various coffee houses, and a Plymouth sale room scheduled in late May and early June. Several brokers, Messrs Perrott, Hodgson, Samuel Robinson, and Francis Fanning are named.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
East India
Perrott and Hodgson
Crown Office
King's Bench Walks
Inner Temple
Neptune
Luke Rose
Matster
Leghorn
London
Plymouth
New York
Sweetings Alley
Lloyd's Coffee-house
Lombard -Street
St. Clement’s Reach
Greerland Dock
John Hutchinson
Lloyd’s Coffee-House
Lombard-Street
Louisburgh
Gulph
Finland
Deptford
William Connolly
John Tivitoe
Angel-Court
Throgtorton-Street
N.B
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Lloyd’s
Lombari Street
Augustine
Biddeford
William _ How
Mill Stairs
St. Saviour’s Dock
Ben
Vaughan and Son
Garraway
Exchange Alley
Portsmouth
Guitter
Brady
Warwick
Rochfort
Mauritius
Minerva
Alexander Hood
Francis Damon
Gosport
Thomas Eyers
Portmouth Common
Benj. Vaughan and Son
Lawrence Pountney-Lane
Cannon-Street
Edward Linzee
Canada
Samuel Robinson
Watling-Street
New Sale Room
Woolster Street
Bristol
Exchange
John Reed
Marseilles
Richard Meyler
Guernsey
Lloyds Coffee-house
N. B
Gamaliel Nightingale
Bourdeaux
St. Domingo
Hparding
Benjamin Steele
Cardhalton
Surry
Houshold
Honduras
Jamaica
Brazil
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Richard Nash
William Yescombe
Bath
Dairy
Guinea
Lloyd's Coffee House
Lombard Street
Montgomery
Horflydown
Thomas Quill
jfFor Sale
Snow Thames
River Thames
Henry Foljambe
Burden
Newfoundland
Portugal
Tinmouth
Exeter
Peter Mauger
Abchurch Lane
Lloyd's Coffee
Hewes
Joan
Boston
Carolina
Virginia
John Williamson
Edward Cahill
New England Coffee-house
Cornhill
Blisson, Richard, and Co
Blisson
Atgarraway
Tso
Apitio Dini
John and
JA. Bradshaw
Mark Hudson
Garraway's
Cornwall
Jamaica Station
J. and
James Bradshaw
Aaron Lara
Atd
Sweeting’s Alley
Petersourgh
Hermitage Street
Walkers Wharf
Symond’s Wharf
Meff
Darlow and Co
Green Bank
Rutherford
Land Co
Burr Street
New-York
Cape ° Breton
Brooks
John Close
Tower-Dack
Carolina and Rensilvania
Birchin-Lane
Mr. Harding
Arthur Onslow
House of Commons
Dodsley
Pall Mall
Cooper
James
Royal Exchange
One Temple
G. Woodfall
Craig’s Court
Ctting Cross
Chapelle
Grosvenor Street
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