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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Aug 17, 1734
Page
3
The item lists South Sea stock, annuities, bank figures, premiums, and various securities with prices and yields. It notes Peterborough Races starting September 24 and promises details in this paper, with a brief hampered postscript about Beech NEAt or He Kadias.
Notices advertise September race meetings at Buryfield near Newport Pagnel Bucks. Three days of heats for horses never winning large sums, with entry fees and weights listed. Plans note penalties, admission, and governance by local gentlemen, with conditions for starters and prizes.
Fragmentary text from a vintage listing mentions pills and belts with unclear names and numbers making precise details unreadable. No identifiable persons places or organizations are determined from the readable fragments.
In Hertford county on Wormley Mead the Purse of fifteen guineas will be contested by horses mares or geldings never valued at more than thirty pounds, weight ten stone, best of three heats four miles per heat. On the following Tuesday a ten guinea plate for horses never valued above twenty pounds, nine stone, to carry weight for inches, best of three heats four miles per heat.
A Gloucester notice advertises meetings on September 24 25 26 and 29 with purses of 59 01 20 1 and 20 1 pounds. Subscriptions require varying entrance fees and weights. Races are run for horses never winning a King's Plate. entries close with the Clerk of the Course at the Wheat Market a week before. Also noted are ordinary meals and evening balls for ladies.
Publication advertises Fortnightly trials at the Sessions House in the Old Bailey from 1720 to present times. It highlights notorious cases including Captain Stanley for murder, Elis Mordant for theft, and multiple robberies and burglaries, with dying speeches and life accounts. The series claims usefulness for lawyers and officials and notes previous numbers and pricing.
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