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Newspaper
General Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jul 04, 1771
Page
1
A grazier from Ackworth Moor Top near Pontefract recently wed a Melton Mowbray widow and planned to reside there. He began selling his household goods on Tuesday, but Wednesday morning was found dead in his bedchamber, hanging.
The Emerald man of war arrived and sailed for the River. Vessels named include the Matty, Fox for Virginia. St. Hill for Newfoundland. William, Jeffrys for Liverpool. Other ships list Catherine from Jamaica, Dispatch from Dantzic, York Berton from London, and several London and Barbadoes arrivals with various origins.
London reports on Berday the Sheriffs and the City Remembers awaiting the King's audience at St James's to present the Address. It covers Wilkes politics, court matters, indictments, divorces, local appointments, and military movements with multiple named persons and places.
Kent dated notice announcing postponement of sessions by the General Quarter Sifts of the Beare to address Eastern and Western Divisions. Adjournments fix dates at Canterbury Old Castle with hearings rescheduled to May and August, requiring constables and others to attend by nine in the forenoon on designated Fridays. Austin, Clerk of the Place, signs the notice.
Peremptory sale under High Court decree of the Suffolk estate called the Upper Chauntry in Sproueton Ipswich with over 116 acres including garden waters groves and two ponds plus the Lower Chauntry farm about 70 acres. Freehold properties near Ipswich two miles from town with timber and underwood and oak trees on both estates. Inquiries through Master of his Chambers Symond’s Inn Chantry Lane Landon or Mr Kilderbee Ipswich.
By order of the assignees of the bankrupt John Robinson the Freehold estate at Bracebridge near Lincoln, including Red Hall mansion with gardens and outbuildings, plus a Farr House and 370 acres of grounds, will be sold at public auction on a Tuesday in August. Interested parties may contact Charles Charlin, Charles Mellithy, Evace Philips, or Lyon, Lincoln, for details and a plan.
On Monday the 16th day of August at the Rose and Crown Inn Tring Hertfordshire at twelve o clock noon unless disposed of before by private contract this notice states a sale will occur.
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