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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Aug 03, 1736
Page
3
The text cautions against decoys and impositions in public sales and auctions, warning of threats to general trade. It condemns deceitful brass objects sold as French plate, noting sellers call them by grand names to mislead buyers.
On a September Tuesday in Chippenham near Monmouth the Gentlemen's Plate of fifty pounds value is offered for horses, mares, or geldings carrying one stone. Entries close Friday before. Other events include the Ladies Plate of ten pounds, a Brace of Bucks, and the Town Plate of twenty pounds with entry rules and weights. Plays and balls accompany the event with daily ordinaries.
Races planned at Bedford on Cow Meadow with purses of thirty, twentyone and forty guineas. Entries due at the Bell Inn Bedford by evening. weights and conditions vary for each day September 31st to September 2nd. Subscriptions required from subscribers toward the Town Purse with penalties for nonparticipation. Disputes resolved by majority vote of contributors present.
The Northampton races schedule three plates on the Heath course. A Twenty Pounds Plate on Tuesday offers two guineas entry with eleven stone weight, to be sold for forty pounds. Wednesday features a Fifteen Pounds Plate with ten stone and one guinea entry, selling for twenty pounds. Thursday a Gentlemen's Plate of Forty Guineas value carries twelve stone, three guineas entry, or one guinea otherwise, with a fifty pound sale. Entries due at the Peacock Inn between four and six, with published rules on entries and prior subscriptions.
A man named Thomas Piggott of Farnham Surrey, a fisherman, aged about two years, five feet eight inches, dark complexioned, with a blue coat and a gray mare, bay galloway, and four silver watches, is described after a July arrest by Sir Walter Parker and John Meres Fagge. He is kept at Seaford with larcenous items and a seal bearing a coat of arms.
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