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Notices of Sales and Employment in 1716 Broadside
A long 1716 advertisement fragment lists upcoming notices from the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts seeking workers for a Barbadoes college project and directing masons carpenters and bricklayers. It also reports a stray horse reward, a January sale of Benjamin Tugspan’s household goods, and a December auction at a Reading field house with catalogues. It mentions rentals in Esso and lodging for fair-city visitors plus recruitment in London for clerks and overseers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jonas Brown
Black Swan
Temple-bar
R. Burleigh
Amen-Corner
Society For the Propagation of the Gospel
Barbadoes
St. P.wl
Hallingfeld
Agron
Senjamin Tugspan
Tver
Bucks
Mtes
Lyon
Frumantle
N.B
Wm. Prangis
Chelter Common
Covent-Garden
Uali
Esoa
Bens Johnson
England
John Philips Reycerver
Che
Beu. Johnton