BEWARE OF SHIPS INFECTED WITH THE PLAGUE HOWE RICHARD; EARL

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BEWARE OF SHIPS INFECTED WITH THE PLAGUE HOWE, RICHARD; EARL. Letter Signed, "Rich. Howe," to Captain Kennedy, advising him to "direct all the requisite precautions to be used on occasion of meeting with any such ships" returning from the area of the Mediterranean supposed to be infected with the Plague. 1 page, tall 4to; folds, 3 edges reinforced, separation at horizontal fold repaired, minor soiling. Essex off of Cape La Hague, 24 June 1758

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"Accounts having been received that several English privateers cruizing in the Mediterranean visit many neutral ships from the Levant arriving from places supposed to be infected with the plage, and which it may on that account be dangerous to communicate withal immediately: Information is therefore given you hereof that you may direct all the requisite precautions to be used on occasion of meeting with any such ships returning from those seas."