was walking over Rottely-Bridge, in Oxford, fell into the River and was drowned.
Ships, &c. taken, lost, &c. according to Advices this Month.
THE Anne, capt. Goodridge, bound from Barbadoes to Boston in new England, was lately lost on Martha's Vineyard.
The John and Mary, capt. Quirk was lately lost near Boston.
The Kinghorne, captain Gourlie, was lately lost on the coast of Carmarthenshire.
The N. S. de la Conception, St. Antonio el Cotibo, formerly the Lambert-Galley, was lately lost at Maracabia.
The Lovely Snow, of Limerick, Vanhoggerdine master, loft 3 leagues to the Eastward of Faro, but her crew and part of her cargo sav'd.
The 20th instant a laden collier bound from London, was cast away on a sand within sight of Pakefield, and 11 of her crew drowned.
The Anna Maria, captain Hardy, laden with bale goods, &c. stranded near Esteponia.
The Prosperity, Gerrard; founder'd in her way to Bilbao.
A French vessel from Marseilles, lost near Lisbon, and 5 of her crew drown'd.
The Shipton, capt. Mallet, a West-India ship, lost in Bristol channel.
The Thomas, capt. Devereux, on the coast of Ireland.
The Anne Sloop, captain Stadden from Barbadoes, lost, and her crew drowned.
The Elizabeth Sloop, captain Martin from Oporto, lost near Liverpool the 17th instant.
The Triton of Bristol, lost on the coast of Carolina.
The Speedwel of Cork, Wm Gionou master, put into Beere Haven about the 11th Jan. where the master with others on shore, landed and divided the goods, and sunk the ship. The master returning to Cork, was suspected and committed to goal, when he confest the particulars aforesaid.
The Bridget and Kitty, capt. Minshall at Liverpool, lost in the windward passage from Jamaica, most of her men perish'd, the rest got to St. Christophers.
The Farfield, captain Hudson, the London, captain ———, the ——— captain Brown, and a small pink, were all 4 lately lost in their voyage from Newcastle to London.
A French ship, and the Charming Betty, capt. Carter, from the Canaries, both lost on the cost of Italy.
The Camberwel, cap. Condon, bound from Newfoundland to the Streights, founder'd near Gibralter.
DEATHS.
Feb. 1. MR. Thomas Mitchel, Secretary to the East India Company.
2. Henry Lyell, Esq.; a Swedish Merchant, formerly one of the Directors of the East-India Company, but being almost blind, resign'd that Office at the last Election. His Estate descended to his Brother Baltzer Lyell, Esq; then in the Direction of the said Company.
Capt. Richard Holden, late Commander of the Ship Mary, in the said Company's Service, and is succeeded in that Command by his Brother.
3. The Widow of Justice Jackson, at Brentwood, in Essex.
4. Mr. Smith, Store-keeper of the Dock-yard, at Deptford.
Mr. Andrew Pels, of Amsterdam, reputed one of the richest Merchants in Europe, lately dy'd there.
5. Sir John Cotton, of Stratton, in the County of Bedford, Bart. He was descended from Sir George Cotton, Bart. Donor of the Cottonian Library. TheTitle
