Possible or Impossible?

Daft Bat

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My friend Tim has come up with a couple of doozies this time! :rolleyes:

Is anyone able to read what is written on the reverse of these two silhouettes dating from about 1780?

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Thank you....

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Charles DALE - Fs with superscript t (first?) Admiral GCS

Really note sure about Dale - I see ?a?e - could be afeo_O

Edit - any chance that you could invert the colours on the second one?
 
From the Kentish Gazette 12th June 1792 -
Friday, at Woodford, by the Archbishop of York,
Captain Charles Morice Pole, in the Navy to Miss Henrietta Goddard,
youngest daughter of John Goddard, esq: of Woodford Hall, Essex
 
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