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Fraud and racing notices mix with coach services in 18th century ad sheet
A cluttered notice warns of Fishery Office directors scheming to buy shares at low sums, urging action at the Unicorn in Gray's Inn Lane on Friday the 29th. The page also advertises horse Plate races near Bicester with entry rules and prices, a Bath and Bristol flying coach schedule, and a missing black man reported from Sudbury with a reward for information.
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Fleetstreet
Gray’s le-Lane
Philip Bowen
Ryen Court
Oxon
Bat
Tucay
Bicester
Ondon
Bath
Charing-Cross
Bristol
Morgans
White Hart Inn
Thoulfel
Wilkear
King’s Bath
London
Sudbury
Abraham Howard