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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Feb 14, 1758
Page
2
Local notice announces availability of grass for mares priced at three shillings weekly. It specifies conditions for grazing and expected delivery terms. The notice lists contact details for reservation and payment options.
At Henjold three miles south of Darking Surrey a sale offers TH High-bred horse Midas, a son of Saucebox, with lineage tracing to Darley Arabian and others. Also offered: the Mountain Morocco Barb, nine years old, and a Mare at one Guinea plus a servant, plus Snake the extraordinary stallion. Plenty of grass and care provided.
Notice from Oxford and Northamptonshire agents offering a living within thirty miles of London worth 160 pounds yearly with a fine house and air. Applicants to Thomas Pryor or Charles Cubbes or Sanderson by consent of local authorities. Letters to Watts’s cabinet maker in London. Red Lion Inn Wycombe and other inquiries in Clerkenwell.
Notices announce a Exeter coach service from Friday Street and Oxford Inn with fare details and luggage allowances. Also anger over the murder of Olave Robertson in Eastwood with a £5 reward for John Cole, plus Berks county felonies warrants for Merrit Lewis and Wes tBy.
London reports from Gibraltar dated December 1757 expect a siege next spring. Garrison boasts batteries and 8 regiments plus two Royal Artillery companies, with a thriving market and steady Barbary provisions. Lords of Trade hear Jamaica requires a new regiment to guard against foreign foes and enslaved uprisings among about 150,990 white residents.
The excerpt reports naval actions near Jamaica and St Domingo, captures by privateers and frigates, prizes sent to Port Royal and Gibraltar, plus related merchant losses. It notes militia pay in Ireland, clerical appointments in Wiltshire, obituaries, court schedules, Lent preachers, and official letters from the Admiralty about Chandernagore and Nabob Suraja Dowla.
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