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Newspaper
Edinburgh Chronicle
Location
Edinburgh, Midlothian, United Kingdom
Date
Oct 08, 1759
Page
4
A Linlithgow County meeting calls Parliament to repeal the act prohibiting spirits, arguing it depresses corn prices and harms tenants. The notice urges Sheriffs to convene heritors if other counties push a joint bid and includes debts and estate sales notices.
Notice advertises a search for Sue Sterling on a matter connected to a heritable claim with details available from Vatter Scot, Clerk to the Signet.
By adjournment the Ednam estate in Kelso area near Berwick Eyemouth to be sold at John’s Coffee-house Edinburgh on the Tuesday next, listing annual rents and free tenants. The property includes a nearly new 15 room house, farm lands fertile and tidy within a mile of Kelso and within ten miles of Eyemouth, with railway-like access and easy terms. Purchases via private bargain through Alex Cunningham, Clerk to the Signet, Old Bank Close, Edinburgh.
A fragment notes that Gavin Hamilton Joan Balfour Patrick Neill and Joan Repuz and J Rerp printed and sold items at their shop located near the Exchange and the College where advertisements are accepted. The text references entry points and local advertising practices.
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