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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Aug 29, 1747
Page
2
The Grand Inquest reports the Oxford Lower Town Hall used for felon trials is ruinous and ill suited. County gentlemen clergy and freeholders are called to meet on October 7 at the Oxford Town Hall to plan repairing rebuilding or replacing the hall for assize sessions.
A July 20 1747 notice from Honiton Devon reports a devastating town fire that consumed about three quarters of the settlement and left hundreds of workers homeless. It asks nobility and public to donate via Sir Richard Hoare and Company and lists local patrons and receivers for relief across Cornwall Devon Somerset and Dorset. An exact survey esti mates 178 houses burnt with goods valued around 43 600 pounds and only 3 300 pounds insured.
August 29 1747 creditors of Walter Noel late of Hil wet in Staffordshire are directed to send claims to Hodgetts Ashwood Lodge near Stourbridge or to Edmund Antroby Eccleshall before September 7 next.
Thomas Crouch a gardener twenty one years old five feet nine inches tall with a pale complexion and moles on his face escaped from Samuel Edwards headborough of Hammersmith. A reward of two guineas is offered for his apprehension to be brought to justice. He was last seen wearing a gold laced hat a dark brown bob wig a white dressing frock white waistcoat and buckskin breeches and is believed to lurk near Tileworth Middlesex.
Ebenezer Hoddy an apprentice to Thomas Millard of St Neot's Huntingdonshire absconded on July 26. A reward and costs are offered for return or for information leading to his capture. Hoddy is 19, about five feet two, with smallpox marks, a bottle nose, a scar on his right thumb, brown hair, and wearing a grizzled prize coat, brown waistcoat, and fufa breeches.
A grey gelding of thirteen hands with cropped mane and near fore wound appears abandoned near Hampstead Heath on the 18th. Whoever returns the nag to James Prichard, baker, Hampstead, will receive half a guinea plus reasonable charges.
The notice announces an Odsey race at Royston Hertfordshire on a Thursday in September 1747 for a sixty guinea purse. It sets entry rules, weights, heats, and prize allocations, plus a fifty guinea purse the following Friday for horses not having won a King's Plate. Subscriptions, entrance fees, and disciplinary rules are specified with timing and locations.
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