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General Correspondence for Trade and Property Offers
A Lancaster style notice advertises a general correspondence service by Thomas Rogers in London to match buyers and sellers, with letters prepaid and responses promised. It lists books of goods, wine, tea, and other merchandise, and offers to locate and arrange sales or purchases, with prices of goods from various places. It also markets land and annuities for sale or lease near London and mentions publishing affairs on request. A separate notice sells a large house with gardens, land near London, and annuities, plus a request for buyers of estates near London, all by the same advertiser. A horse theft alert references three geldings stolen near St. James’s, with a Guinea reward for each horse and a warning. Also advertised is a cure for the scurvy with chemical drops, sold at Haydon Yard with directions.