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    1. [ENG-SOM] Miles BECK and James MITCHELL ( 1787 )
    2. >From Felix Farley's Bristol Journal, Saturday, July 7, 1787; Issue 2019. On Thursday last Miles BECK , a travelling quack-doctor, was convicted at Halifax, in Yorkshire, in the penalty of 20 pounds, for vending four separate medicines without having stamped labels affixed thereto, but being his first offence, that sum was mitigated to 10 pounds which was immediately paid. HIS MAJESTY'S SHIPS the TRIUMPH and CENTAUR. If the next of Kin of James MITCHELL , who enlisted into the Marine-Service at Bristol, on the 27th of January, 1779, being then 23 years of age, and served as a Corporal of Marines on board the Triumph from the month of April 1779, till the month of August 1781, when he was turned over to the Centaur, in the West Indies, and is supposed to have been lost in that Ship on the 24th of September 1782, will apply to Messrs. OSBORNE and SEAGER , Attornies at Law, Bristol, they will hear of something to their advantage. Or if any persons who were well acquainted with the said MITCHELL and his hand-writing, will apply as above, they will be rewarded for their trouble.

    07/17/2011 12:22:30