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L.c.2118

London 9ber the 24^th 1692

Sir

We have an account from Deal that
our privateers have brought in there above
30 sail of Dans and Hamburgh shipps Laden
with Contra band Goods for France as pitch,
Tarr, hemp and other navall stores -

Brit [...] Commodore or Admi-
rall of the [...] them for the Kings
use upon which the owners of the privateer
applyed themselves to the Lords of the Admiralty
who upon hearing the matter at a full
board ordered an express to be sent away
yesterday to the Admiral to Redeliver
the said shipps to the Privateers with all
the papers and every thing else he had
taken from them and to of the said Danish
Fleet have escaped into Dunkerk their
convoy haveing sunk a privateer that
made after them -

The house of peers yesterday
agreed to an address to recommend their speaker
Sir Robert Atkins to his Maiestie without Men=
=cioning any particulars leaveing it to his
Maiestie hopeing that he will conferr on him the place
of Master of the Rolls vacant by the death of the
Honorable Mr Powell ~

It is said Mr Rimera celebrated Poet
Laureat who I told you in my last died a few days since

3 highway men said to be of Whitneys
band were yesterday seized and Committed to Newgate

{The house of Commons read the first time the bill against hawkers and pedlers
and ordered a 2d reading the house allso read the first time a Bill to prevent
vexsatious suits at [lawe] and for the more easey reversall of outlawries in the Kings: Bench
The House afterwards resolved into a grand committe on the East india affaire and
made considerable progress therein, vix, That the East india trade should be managed
by a ioint stock that the said trade should rise by new subscriptions that no man}