Racing Match Ends in York With Cap tain Hay Winning
On Tuesday night at 10:30 in Surry a race for 400 guineas matched Thomas Walker of Mickleham against Captain Adam Hay. Hay won as Walker rode his own horse while Hay rode for Captain Mulcaster. The course began Monday morning from Portland Street, London, reaching Ousebridge, York, in 40 hours 35 minutes. Walker’s horse tired near Tadcaster and is thought likely to die.
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Thomas Walker
Mickleham
Surry
Adam Hay
Walker
Hackney
Mulcaster
Hay
Portland-street
London
Ousebridge
York
Stockholm
Edward Hughes
Somérset
East-Indies
Salisbury
Chatham
Judith
Jane
John Cunningham
Archangel
Tinmouth
Hagley
Worcestershire
George Lord Lyttelton
Lucy
Hugh Fortescue
Filleigh
Devonshire
Thomas
Elizabeth
Robert Rich, Bart
Richmond
Richmond Ferry
Dunkirk
His Majesty
Wentworth
Achilles
Noblemen and Gentlemens
H. F
Mr. Vernon
Coates
Chef
Mr. Wentworth
Mr. Ayrton
Charles Sedley
Regulator
J. S. Barry
Lothario
Watermens Company
Plomer
St. Catherine’s Stairs
Essex-street
Smithfield
Guildhall
Woodstreet Compter
James
Cannon-street
Croydon
Kennington Common
Arrivals and sailings at major ports in August notices
Shipping news lists arrivals and departures for August including ships like Kirby Hall George from Oporto, India Pilot Boyce, Lion from Petersburgh, Fame Owtton, and Goodwill Currin from Waterford. Ports include Portsmouth Liverpool Hull Aberdeen Plymouth Whitehaven Jamaica Smyrna with multiple vessels named and origins noted.
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St. Dears
Wind S
Prince William
Sanderson
St. Abes
Maria
Priest
Bristol
Kirby Hall
George
Oporto
India
Boyce
Lion
Petersburgh
Gravesenn
Owtton
North Carolina
Goodwill
Currin
Waterford
Cornelius
Clore
Friesland
Hunter
Memet
Dorsetshire
Waddy
Se.vite’s
Fanny
Maton
Rotterdam
Britannia
Hamiltort
Riga
Portsmouth
Ottley
Beach
St. Kitt’s
Stad- Tontbergh
Maria Magdalena
Aberdeen
Adventure
Aiken
Court News and European Diplomacy Rumors From June
Reports from St James's London Berlin Warsaw and Constantinople note royal presentations at court officers arriving from Spa and German towns and dispatches from Boston on colonial governance. Letters discuss restrictions, genuineness of documents, and dispatch urgency while Ottoman naval movements and a possible Austrian marriage treaty stir continental speculation.
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Earl of Gainsborough
St. James’s
George Germaine
Irwin
Spa
Germany
Board of Council
Boston
New England
Hutchinson
England
Berlin
Warsaw
Lemburg
House of Austria
Constantinople
Crimea
Guarry
Varna
Black Sea
Laft
An 18th Century Notice Mix of Deaths Trades and Marriages
A dense column reports on deaths including George Lord Lyttelton and others, a bridge subscription at Richmond, egg imports from Dunkirk, York races results, and varied public notices. It notes captures of criminals, a waterman case, and a Black beggar, with multiple births marriages and deaths in London society.
Trustees seek proposals to fund parish annuities in Croydon
Trustees appointed by Parliament for repairing Croydon parish invite proposals from lenders aged over 45 to advance funds secured on life annuities. Submit in writing with life details, rate, and abode by September 16. Trustees meet September 14 at ten in the forenoon in the vestry to consider nominees and purchases.
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Croydon
Surrey
A&t
James Lewen
Forencon
Doncaster Races and Drainage Meeting Notices 1773
A fragment describes Doncaster races with weights for four to six year olds and various heats on September 27 to 29, 1773, plus entries at the Red Lion and details for handling entrance fees and prizes. It also covers a drainage meeting in Bolingbroke and East Holland, appointing a committee and calling a September 14 gathering to seek Parliament aid for East Fen drainage. An advertisement promotes a new Family Bible with notes by Thomas Archer, offering eighty numbers at sixpence each, with plates and binding options.
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Doncaster
Red-Lion
Marquis of
Lincolnshire
Bolingbrook
East Holland
General Evening Post
Cambridge Chronicle
East Fen
Henry Butler Pacey
Mr. Stevenson
Joseph Banks
Robert Barlow
John Yerburgh
John
Wyche
George Ferne
Self
Richard Shepherd
John Linton
Thomas Booth
Wright
John Parrish
William Elmhictt
John Codd
Robert Porter
Senior West
John Wayet
Samuel Lovell
John Relfey
Stanley Marshall
Jot Stanger
John Cheyney
Edward Draper
Elizabeth Draper
William Hairby
East-Holland
Court of Sewers
Stevenson
Elmhirst
Hoggard
Robertson
Lovell
Eymo
Eggning
Port
St. James’s Chronicle
Cambridge Chrohieley
Thomas Archer
South-Sheen
Curlen
Grignion
R. Baldwin
E. and
C. Dilly
Poultry
S. Crowder
G. Robinson
Arern
W. Nicoll
St. Paul's Churchyard
Pearson and Aris
Birmingham
N. B
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