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Auctions and Lost Notices Parade Through Cheapside
A Purse of sales lists the burial stock of Mr. John Abell with cloaks cloths and silvered items to be sold at the Half Moon Tavern Cheapside from Friday to Tuesday January 8. Separate ads offer deer at Wing Park Bucks, an apothecary shop in Bewdley, and a runaway notice for a young man described as 25 with smallpox marks. Also listed are a mongrel liver colored dog near Spring Garden and a patent remedy for hypochondria with a bookish sales pitch and a new year gift neck lace from Cornhill and Temple Bar shops.
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Half Moon
Cheapside
John Abell
Thomas Arne
King-freet
Covent Garden
Wing-Park
County of Bucks
William Shackley
St. Gilest-Pound
Bewdley
Worcestershire
Tho
Richardson
Half Moon Tavern
Aldersgate Street
T. G