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Public Notices and Advertisements from the Red Lion and London Shops
A mixed page of 18th century notices includes promotions for a miscellany titled Miscellanea Aurea with multiple essays and verse, then rental and property offerings for two freehold houses and stables near Colebrook Market, plus an inn for letting in Gloucester and estate details. Also columns seeking information on a missing Indian servant Pompey, a Canterbury death and will inquiry for Mrs. Joanna Jones, a patent rheumatic oil cure with a Bristol sale, and local notices seeking rewards for recovering the servant and locating the Duke of Ormond’s head.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sam
Garth
New Athens
Morris Williams
Alberoni
Don Alonzo
Lerma
Spain
Adonis
Southern
Milton
Philips
Killigrew
A. Bettesworth
Red Lion
Paternoster Row
J. Pemberton
Golden Buck
Fleetstrees
Redlion Street
Duke of Ormoand
Ormond-street
Joanna Jones
City of
Canterbury
London
John Sawkins Sen
Paris