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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Aug 01, 1772
Page
3
Reports detail races at Claverton Down with multiple plates and purses. Includes weights for age, winners wearing penalties, and generous stakes such as the Bath Cup and sweepstakes. Mentions entries, entry fees, and steward Right Hon. the Earl of Corke with Puting and Fawconer.
Notices for Hereford races on August 25 to 27 1772 detail plates for aged horses with weight allowances, entry fees, and clerk of the course requirements. Entries due August 18 at Redstreak Tree with weights and qualifications. steward Lord Bateman presiding.
High water at London Bridge noted for tomorrow morning around 12 M after 6, with one forecast at 38 M after 6 and another at 7, and evening high water at 41 M after 7.
Hereford July 4 1972 Charles Pugh printer Hereford requests information about a dark brown gelding strayed or stolen near Hereford. He is about six years old, 15 hands, white markings including a large blaze, three white legs, no behind shoes, white hoofs. Reward five guineas if strayed. twenty guineas on conviction if stolen and offender found.
An 18th century advert lists Ladies Magazine Number XXV for June 1772, published at G. Robinson, London. It promises a sentimental journey through England, Spanish histories, court anecdotes, poems, moral tales, marriages and deaths, new music, patterns for a handkerchief, and a Ladies’ maxims section, with illustrations and a Nabob comedy.
A late 18th century Gazette extracts personnel rewards after a state inquiry, detailing Dr Hee and Dr Munter union gifts and 150-ducit payments for clerks, with further dispatches from Vienna, Copenhagen, and Paris noting fortress actions, seafaring incidents, sequestered cargoes, and public notices on executions, births, and deaths.
Balance in the hands of the Treasurer 875 13 the labor of this society now secured to the public on the permanent basis of incorporation. The society will prevent evil by aiding poor youths likely to break the law and direct their labor to the common welfare. Subscriptions are welcome at the office and by named bankers. By order of the Committee, Curves Sutrsa, Clerk.
London dispatch reports the German emperor orders exact registration of corn hay and straw in Poland districts and lists oxen horses and other livestock needed by troops all to be paid at standard prices. Captain Barber reports from the Bacchus that harsh winds cost a second mate and a foremast man overboard on the voyage from Dominica to Liverpool and the ship later sailed toward Corva Island.
Marine Society office reports a general account of receipts and disbursements from November 1, 1771 to June 30, 1772, detailing balance in hand, apprentice fees for girls due, and subscriptions received during the period under the act of incorporation.
A 1772 notice from the Marine Society at the Royal Exchange invites owners of ships and waterborne trades to apply for stout healthy poor boys to be apprenticed. Makers in maritime trades such as boat builders rope makers and riggers are also urged to apply for lads fit for their trades. Office hours are eleven to three with committee sessions on Tue Wed Thu and Fri. Applications may also be made on Mon and Sat. Cuarres Sugsu, Clerk.
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