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Orders are sent to Portsmouth to stopp
the going of the Bilboa ffleet till the going of
the Dutch

Captain Bloud in Custody for robbing
the Portsmouth Mail is directly sworn against by
the Post Boy, and an unlucky Circumstance
stands against him, that being in an [gun] &
seeing the Post boy there tooke his horse from
his Oates, and rode away without discharging the
house -

Letters from Portsmouth & Cowes of
the 7^th and 8^th instant say that the Canary, Bilboa & W India
ffleets are sailed thence the former under Convoy of 3 men of
Warr and a ffire shippe They add that 2 shipps are sailed
bound for the W Indies are sailed before for Plymouth
to give notice to the rest of the shipps there to be ready
to ioyn Sir ffrancis: Wheeler when he comes by that place
with the W India Squadron

Tis said the Duke of Northumberland
will have the Earl of Oxfords Regiment and his Maiestie
will bestow on his Lordshipp something equivalent thereto

Twas discoursed yesterday upon the
Exchange that a ffrench: Man of Warr of 72 Gunns
was lately cast away near Cork in Ireland -

On sunday last 3 High way men
of Captain: Whitney's Gang were seized near
Chelsey, and a fourth made his escape, the
others were Committed to Newgate

They afterwards went further on the Supply Bill and brought 2 appropriating
Clauses the one for 750000^li to supply the last Poll Tax, and the other for
700000^li appropriated to the use of the Navy, with some letter Clauses and when twas