Acts and notes on trade, fishing, and public works
A long royal and parliamentary record outlines acts regulating fishing vessels in Gravesend and London markets, import rules, and public works. It also reports on foreign affairs from The Hague to Madrid, naval preparations, and political commentary on war costs and possible remedies. It mentions Greenwich Hospital pensions and ambassadorial moves in London.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Westminster
Gravesend
London
Eli
Bret
Tarbot
Greenwich Hospital
Milford
Pembroke
City of
Isle of Ely
Suffolk
Norfolk
High Peak
Castleton
Derby
Avon
Bristol
Leeds
County of
York
George the First
Weaver
Frodsham-bridge
Winsford-bridge
Chester
Westminster Abbey to house the bull Voryl and other sea notices
A fragmentary London chronicle notes Voryl the bull to be placed on a planned monument at Westminster Abbey. It also reports on Sir Gilbert Heathcote’s peerage status being unfounded, Lord Jenley’s journey to Grange, an enlistment ruse exposed near Clerkenwell Green, a Mercer Street court action with a £21 wage verdict, and other scattered notices including executions, deaths, verses, and ships’ movements from Harwich to Portsmouth with military recruitment and transport details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
de Grimaldi
Duke de Choiseuil
Don Philip
Naples
France
England
Russia
Netherlands
Petersburgh
Brassels-Gazette
Paris
Italy
Rome
Tottleben
Madrid
Marquis de ’Ensenada
Wirtemberg
Versailles
Corsica
Europe
Meiffen
Marshal Daun
Paderborn
Germany
Weser
Isle of Wight
Earl of Effingham
Grenadier Guards
Onslow
Prince Frederic William
Prince of Wales
Greenwich Hospital
Soha Square
Spain
Dean-street
Wolfe
Wilton
Westminster-abbey
Gilbert ‘Heathcote
Fir Thomas
Kennedy
Scotland
Lord Jenley
Grange
Hampshire
St. John's Square
Clerkenwell Green
King’s Beaich
Westminster
Lord Mansfield
Ann Hallock
Old Bailey
Tyburn
Peterborough
Edward Bigland
Trowlesworth
Leicester
Biglands
Bigland
Lancashire
Also Mentioned on This Page
Hague
Marquis de Grimaldi
Breda
Count de Fuentes
America
Vienna
House of Bourbon
Turin
Count Stahremberg
the Daily Recister of Commerce and ‘Intelligence
Guernsey
David Sale
Barnaby Hawkins
Tinmouth
St. Maloes
Monte Christi
New York
Leghorn
Shannon
Gibraltar
Portsmouth
Rippon
Colchester
Apri
Madeira
St. Helena
Voryl
Thomas Harrison
Britannia
Guadalupe
Harrison
Old England
Harwich
Treac
Elizabeth
Thomas Boleron
Cremer
Fowey
Plymouth
Devonshire
Elizabeth Coryton
Peter Coryton
Carolina
Virginia
Lisbon
Warspite
Bentley
Dunkirk
Bonetta
Ranger
Sheerness
Ireland
Downs
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