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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Aug 27, 1734
Page
3
Hear from Eylom that the races begin there on Tuesday the 34th of her next month. The Assembly Room will be opened as at the May Meeting with performances and bail as usual. Each person pays half a crown at entrance. details include diy and Fickes payment.
A fragmented report lists diseases and casualties with figures such as convulsions 240 and fever 70, smallpox 52, stilborns and tooth issues noted. Drowning in the River of Phames and several accidental deaths by coach and fall from a horse are recorded. Burial figures and stock market lines follow with mixed financials and bonds, including South Sea stocks and annuities, plus London insurance and bank entries.
Proclamation notes that appointed trustees under an act for road repairs in Kensington Chelsea Fulham and other Middlesex parishes will hold their next general meeting at the Greyhound in Kensington Square on Monday next the 1st of September at ten in the forenoon.
Egham Meadow races to be run on September 26 for twenty pounds by any horse mare or gelding, weight stone, best of three heats, winner to be sold for 30 guineas. September 25 purse ten pounds, winner to be sold for 20 guineas. September 26 plate five pounds for gaited horses under 13 hands, seven scone. Entry details and fees follow, with attendance at Red Lyon for articles. An ordinary is held daily for viewing.
A commission will be held on September 23 at the Crown in Ludlow, Salop, for the creditors of John Baldwyn the Elder and John Aldwyn the Younger, both late of Ludlow, to prove their demands for satisfaction out of their estates.
A man who left his family on Friday August 23 sent a letter and keys to a friend via the Barnet coachman. He plans to return home and his affairs will be settled to his satisfaction. He is urged to write to his family at once, who are in the utmost concern for his welfare.
A notice seeks a good stone or brick house with three or four rooms on a floor, a stable for two or three horses, garden walks, an orchard, a brew house, other conveniences, and 20 or 30 acres with three running waters. About 20 to 30 miles from London, to be ready between this and Michaelmas next. Direct to Mr ade in Albemarle-street Clerkenwell with post-paid letters.
A sober young man who writes well and knows merchants accounts mathematics and music would be a good family servant and can be well recommended. Enquire at Brown-John's Coffee House in Great Ormond Street near Holborn or at Fowler's in Bucks Head Court Great Distaff Lane London.
A sale of fine arms and related items from the shop of the late Colonel Robert Harvey gun-maker, located in Sheer-Lane near Temple-Bar, proceeds to be sold at prime Col. Tee Goods. The auction lists items formerly held by the deceased maker.
A note from London to master glaziers warns of Stuart alias Freeman sent as a journeyman to work for Mr Mason of Chelmsford Essex. He robbed a gentleman's house taking money and a gold amethyst ring with hair beneath the stone. A five guinea reward is offered for his capture and conviction by Mr Mason or Mr Daniel Gilson at the Woolpack in Fenchurch Street. He is described as male, about five feet three, stooped, with a hooked nose, white horsehair wig, copper coat and white Holland apron.
Under a High Court of Chancery order by consent, a freehold estate named Desthorpe Hall in Peterborough and Northanton is offered with a capital house, outbuildings, and multiple acres of garden, enclosure, arable and meadow land plus a leasehold farm adjoining. Also offered is a separate freehold estate at Glassmore Whittlefea Isle of Ely with about 100 acres. inquire Charles Orme Peterborough or John Atwood Lincoln's Inn Fields London.
The advertisement lists Bible and Common Prayer books printed on super-royal paper from Oxford, including a Folio Bible and Book of Homilies, with other Bibles, common prayer books, school books, and bindings. Sold wholesale and retail by Samuel Brat at the Bible and Ball in Ave Maria Lane.
In Petworth Sussex Aug 21 1994 a notice proclaims that Promisory Notes and other securities once belonging to the late William Rapley have been stolen. Debtors are warned not to pay or discharge notes to unauthorized holders and to report any recovery to John Huntingford and Robert Barttelor to claim a reward.
The notice promotes liquid soap sold by Joan Carr successor to William Cowpland at the Three Pigeons and Crown on Ludgate Hill. It claims superior lather and cleaning power, suitable for pictures marble tables glassware and hair work, with price points at five pence per pound for Crown Soap and four pence halfpenny for Green Soap, while warning of counterfeit imitators and urging Nobility and Gentry to judge its quality.
An auction notice lists numerous wines and related casks by size and type to be sold tomorrow at Six o Clock in the Afternoon at Lloyds Coffee-House Lombard Street and other City locations, with viewing available until sale time. The dense list includes White Lisbon, red Sporto, old red, Madeira, Moselle, Rhenish, Canary, and Spanish Brandy, among many vessels. Names of streets and venues identified include Lombard Street, Muddiford Court, Fenchurch Street, Threadneedle Street, and St Christopher's Church vicinity. Details are fragmentary due to OCR.
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