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Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William III
… persons, who in the late war belonged to French and other privateers, have been to enquire into the condition of the …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William III
… of a letter from Gravesend, stating that the French privateers come up as high as the Isle of Sheppey. [ Ibid., …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William III
… according to his commission and the sea laws concerning privateers, the captain had brought the ship into his own …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William III
… in preserving ships lying in our road from the insults of privateers; which infested this coast, insomuch that with …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William III
… to send of a packet since, by reason three French privateers were upon these coasts, and none of our men-of-war … past. Upon notice of their coming the two biggest of the privateers went, as we are told, to the southward; the other, … again in hopes to get clear of them. We believe the French privateers have of late been very busy off Holyhead, as they …