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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Feb 23, 1738
Page
2
A traveler pays a robber after being pressed for payment. In earlier news, Avon and Ealing Church books are stolen, a Herefordshire turnpike riot occurs with gunfire and gate damage, and royal proclamations promise punishment. Other items report indictments, street thefts, and market price shifts with voyages to Lisbon and Vienna.
Custom-House London announces a sale on March 8 at twelve, listing "upwards of Fifteen Tons of Ti" at three shillings eleven pence per hundred weight. Buyers must pay ten pounds deposit, goods reweighed on delivery, and removal within fourteen days or forfeit deposit. Viewable at Margate until sale time.
The Court of Committee of Hoult Spring Garden warns all creditors who pledged goods to the Charitable Corporation that forfeited items may be redeemed or renewed by March 25 1737. Items unredeemed or renewed by that date will be immediately put up for sale.
In April 1735 creditors of Edward Nicholas Esquire are informed that sixteen shillings in the pound is directed for payment. The residue of debts will be paid to Meff Hoare and Company by March next. Creditors are advised to apply to Mr Samuel Dixon at Cook's Court near Lincoln's Inn to draw on Mr Hoare for the remaining debt.
A seven year old grey gelding with black mane and tail, 14 hands 1 inch high, bearing a scar and spots, trots nimbly, with hind legs inward, head held high. Reward two guineas to the finder who brings him to Stephen Smith at Filston or Hinde's Livery Stable, Blue Boar's Head, Southwark, no questions asked.
An old notice from Covent Garden offers a Guinea reward for a liver coloured and white spaniel with a brass collar engraved St. John Henrietta Street Covent Garden. The dog is missing since Sunday last and the finder should report its whereabouts to receive the reward.
From Marlborough last week a tall startled pointer with a leather collar plated with brass lost its owner name. The dog has a yellow liver colored head, eyes forward, tail high, and answers to Caxto. A reward of five guineas is offered for return to Mr Buckeridge at the Three Tuns Marlborough or Mrs Shropshire at the Angel or Mr Cary at the Petican Speenhamland. A three guineas reward is offered for information leading to recovery.
A loyalist records a desertion from the Company of Lieutenant Colonel James Scuart jun in His Majesty's Third Regiment of Foot Guards under the Earl of Dunmore. Alexander Fleming from Angus Scotland is described as 6 feet 2 inches tall with a pale countenance and dark brown hair. A pardon is offered if he returns within three weeks. after that, a reward of two guineas is offered to anyone who apprehends him and reports to Captain John Edison at the Savoy, London.
On February 17 a meeting of principal creditors of John Tyffen late of Woolverston Suffolk bankrupt agreed to meet at the Cross Keys Tavern Holborn on Wednesday March 22 at five in the afternoon. They will consider a proper method to apply for the Estates of the bankrupt and a dividend from the sale money and money in the Receiver's Hands.
Notice seeks immediate or Lady Day occupation of Belhouse a furnished Essex house seventeen miles from London with gardens fruit trees dove cote canal fish ponds and avenues. Enquire at the house or Searl's Coffee-house Lincoln's Inn.
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