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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Apr 28, 1759
Page
2
The document lists entries, weights, and matchups for the October meeting races at Beacons Course. It names owners such as Lord March Duke of Grafton and Duke of Devonshire, horses like Pharoah and Tatler, and specifies purses of 200 to 300 guineas, plus heats and conditions across multiple days.
WARRINGTON DOCKING Lancashire details fierce 21 May contests between E. fq and Edward Dicconson at Warrington with bets of Ten Guineas a Battle and Forty-one ty-one for Bye Battles. Three matches and major stakes of Two Hundred Guineas for the main event feature the day.
A sale note lists a gray gelding from Hartford Bridge lineage, five years old, fifteen hands, stout and unmixed, bred by the Duke of Bolton’s Tate, full brother to Trifle and sister to Lord Gower’s Little Jotun. Also mentions a mare at three guineas and a servant at twenty shillings, with care and grass stated for Mayes.
At Kyford in Gloucestershire a mare named Three Guineas a Mare and Half a Crown the Servant is to be paid at the Stable Door or when the Mare is taken ware Brown Bay Cult rising four years old bred by Lord Chedworth. She is 14 hands and three inches high with strong proportion and promising shape. She walks upright and yields good mares for three shillings per week, with seven attendances from Stow on the Wold. N.B. Fyford is three miles from Gloucester and eleven from Chipping Norton. Doubt cast on the pedigree on the mare's side last year may be ratified by certificates from breeders and proprietors.
At G GraistEwoon's Sadler At the Stirrup Moorfields London a four-figure mare rate and a servant fee for a fine fourteen hands three and a half stallion bred from notable lines including Earl of Godolphin and Noble and Martindale lines. A bay horse CRAR alias OTHARIO, and a frog-hill bred horse offer stud services with fees from one pound to five guineas. Also notices on creditors and a public threat against an anonymous letter writer, with legal threats and warnings.
Advertises horse Inn Goswell Street departure each Thursday and Friday venting to Peterborough and Spalding with onward connections to Boston. Mentions Pofton departures, four o clock morning runs, and Lincoln horses with fare policy, schedules, and safety claims.
A notice seeks a four room brick house to rent near London by midsummer. Desired features include a cellar, good water, a garden, court yard, pasture land nearby, and proximity to a church. Respondents must provide room measurements and rent terms with a true description of partners, sent to St James's Market, Westminster.
News from Madrid Rome and Frankfurt reports uncertain naval movements and a possible mobilization to deter or confront foreign powers. Treaty signals between Vienna and Naples hint at shifting Italian affairs while papal politics and Jesuit influence loom in Rome. Embargo orders in Vine Court and troop movements foreshadow military provisioning as princes and generals maneuver across Europe.
The Dutch Deputies present to the King their Credence from the United Provinces stating a desire to cultivate sincere friendship. They seek to remove past litigations and prejudices hindering the Republics trade, which they note is its greatest strength. They place confidence in the King's favor and goodwill toward a state safeguarding a princess’s trust and promoting the Crown's glory.
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