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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Dec 25, 1735
Page
3
A formal notice addressed to the gentlemen clergy and freeholders of Devon County opens with a traditional summons or invitation, framed in the language of county governance and community duties. It signals an official consultation or assembly related to regional matters.
VAP holds fifteen acres in Norton Fitzwarren Somersetshire, plus a messuage, thirty acres, a cottage and garden in Wellington, and five tenements with reversions. A decree sale was misadvertised for January 23. the correct sale is January 16 between ten and twelve. Inquire of Mr Henry Smych in Shire Lane.
A man is held at the Round-House of St Giles's in the Fields under a warrant from a justice of the peace on suspicion of stealing several pieces of plate. Several pieces bear an engraved arms description including a chevron between three talbot heads erazed and a falcon’s head crest. Notices invite owners to report missing items bearing these arms to John Palmer at Blue Board King Street or to the Rose and Three Tun near the Seven Dials.
Notice from Kent sheriff style says Joseph Dean's stable near Maidstone was broken into on the 197th inst night. A brown gelding about 14.5 hands with three white feet and a brown near hind foot, swish tail, walks trots and gallops well, was stolen. Reward of a guinea offered by William Acton at Spread Eagle, Battle-Bridge, or Henry Gibbons at the Chequer, Maidstone, for safe return with no questions.
Very good freehold estate to be sold cheap. Tenanted property with annual rent of 851. Includes farm house barrs stables offices and more on 100 plus acres arable meadow and pasture plus six acres coppice wood. Well watered and hold improveable located four miles from Devizes two from Bath and three from Chippenham. Enquiries to Walter Harvey Adam Tock or Edward Gale.
Next Monday the Sessions Paper Part II publishes the remainder of trials including Wreathock and Cambell for highway robbery, Mrs Barker for robbing Sir Wolstan Dixie, Richard Pain for robbing Sir Wolstan's butler, Charles Gardner for the murder of Edward Hall, and others such as a rape case and an alluring robbery attempt. The edition is printed for J. Roberts in Warwick Lane and Part I is also advertised with trials of Burton Brace and Mrs Thorne among others.
This Day is public dedicated to her Majesty. A treatise by John Taylor on diseases of the crystalline humour of the eye including cataract and glaucoma with a new theory of causes and a method of operations. Printed for J. Roberts near the Oxford Arms in Warwick.
An extraordinary remedy for the cure of the distempers of the stone gravel and strangury is offered at Harcner’s Bookfellery near the Royal Exchange Cornigg and Istn’s Golden Ball near St Danist Church Flees-street. Reports claim several remarkable cures and a recent instance of one large stone passed after one dose. Paper priced five shillings with four doses and directions.
Yesterday's issue promotes a corrected and beautiful edition of a Farce with subscriptions taken by numerous booksellers in London. Names include Midwinter, Robinson, Astley, Austen, Longman, Batley, Osborne, Knapp, Camp, Kings, Ludgate, Meadows, Hatcher, Whitridge, Birt, Ware, Pemberton, Wotton, Morte, Lincoln, Stephens, Shuckburgh, Gilliver, Worrall, Cogan, Ward and Chandler, Furbut, Wellington, Gray, Herr, Clark, Ward in Strand, Jackson, Jolafte, Stage, Ryal, Barner, Covent Garden, Williamson, Helbourn, Payne, and others. Also notes Farquhar works compleat and a catalogue of plays printed at sixpence each.
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