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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Aug 17, 1736
Page
3
The notice lists three racing events at Hounslow Heath for September with purses of twenty, ten, and fifteen pounds. Entries close at Red Lion New Brentford on September 6, with weights set by age and sex, entrance fees of one or two guineas, and rules enforced by a subscribing farrier.
Notices announce horse races on Northampton Heath starting September next with several plates and entrance fees. Events include a Twenty Pounds Plate, a Fifteen Pounds Plate, and a Forty Guineas Gentlemen's Plate. Entries close at the Peacock Inn with show and entry hours specified. rules limit consecutive wins and require subscriptions for Town Plate.
The Parish Church of St Hellen's near Bishopsgate London is under general repair. Several noble families' monuments require co repair. Owners who claim rights to monuments may send workmen to repair and beautify at their own expense with liberty from the church wardens.
Races at Chipping Norton in Oxon run Monday to Wednesday with purses of thirty, eight, and twelve guineas. Entry fees a guinea for subscribers, three for non subscribers, and weight allowances apply. Horse winning the thirty guinea purse may be sold for sixty if required. Ball and daily ordinary provided. entries due the day before each race at Market House, Norton.
Let and estate listing near North Cray Kent describes Mountmark Hall a large mansion with offices stables coach-house pigeons gardens fruit trees 21 acres pasture and more adjacent. Inquiries directed to Pluckrose Fleet Ditch Tafker Dartford Holmes Eltham.
RAKE of YORK states un foreseen accidents slowed publication of his History Aid Antiquities. Subscribers will receive hooks by Michaelmas Day next. Further notice will specify where hooks may be obtained, shortly in this paper.
Advertises a pocket edition with near 150 songs in front matter and over 400 songs in the collection. Notes two volumes contain 800+ songs, including 200 new pieces by notable authors, with tunes listed for singing. Also offers The Life and entertaining History of Osman the Great in two pocket volumes by Mademoiselle De Gomez.
The text promotes two medical works by the same author, including Siphylis a Practical Dissertation on the Venereal Disease in two parts and The Compleat Surgeon detailing the art of surgery with French dressings. Translated from French, the edition adds a description of bandages and dressings, with forty copper plates illustrating dressing figures.
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