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Secret recruitment plot toward French service unfolds
The narrator details covert actions around Bristol including a scheme to recruit English sailors for France. He describes sending money, meeting Rogers, and a plan to board a royal ship as a midshipman to reach suspected English faith allies. Four men and a boy were diverted to France via Calane, Liverpool.
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Rogers
Bristol
Paris
Brisol
Falkland Isllands
Europe
Alborough
Calane
Liverpool
France