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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jan 29, 1740
Page
3
Notice of the Society for the Encouragement of Learning meeting on Saturday February 2 at eleven o clock in the forenoon. Held at their house in St Martin's Lane for the election of officers and committee members for the ensuing year. Alexander Gordon, Sec.
A notice describes the escape of Thomas Richardson from Oakham Gaol Rutland by a youth who is about five feet six inches tall with a pale complexion and a goat with a cape. The reward is five guineas to anyone who helps recapture him. The description lists facial features and clothing including a short nose hollow voice and black beard.
A court case in Bristol centers on a claim that a report accusing Nathaniel Day of debt was malicious and groundless. Henry Combe offers a twenty guineas reward for identifying the author or any accomplices responsible for the spread of the defamatory material dated January 1st, 1739.
Let at yearly rent of 20 pounds a genteel brick house in Weibbenhall Parish Kidderminster Worcester. Front house with handsome garden summerhouse walling and river view. Includes stable pigeon house kitchen garden and other conveniences on the Bathside in a dry pleasant country. inquiries to Mr John Ingram Bewdley or Edward Compton London.
Printer advertises limited copies of Mr Pope’s works in large and small paper formats with prices set in shillings and guineas. Ten folio/quarto large paper copies and thirty three final paper six volumes remaining, with price reductions to ten shillings sixpence for large paper and seven shillings for small per volume before Lay Day. Also Mr Gay’s two volumes remaining at eight shillings per sheet and one guinea per volume in sheets. Exchange offer for those with small Iliads edition to ten shillings and sixpence per set.
A catalog of pamphlets and sermons printed in London during the war against Spain. Titles include Gods Alarm to Great Britain and An Enquiry into our publick Mercies and abuse of them. Authors listed are JonN Guysé and Samuel Snashale, with prices and publishing details.
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