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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jul 02, 1734
Page
3
A fragment describes a missing brown and white dog named Fry with one brown head side and white elsewhere. The notice promises a Guinea reward to anyone delivering the dog to Lady Elizabeth Wentworth and asks for no questions.
A notice invites buyers to contact Mr Cartier at the Cocoa Tree in Pall Mall to purchase twenty five stout foxhounds ready for use. The terse ad specifies a two parcher or price unit and directs interested parties to the supplier for arrangements.
On Hounslow Heath on Wednesday July 17 a purse of thirty pounds will be run over two miles in heats for horses mares or geldings ten stone. Thursday 18 offers a fifteen pound give and take purse. Friday 19 a twenty pound purse. Saturday 20 a twenty pound purse for hunters. Entrances vary and races start at the Red Lyon Inn New Brentford with entries due July 8. Cock-fighting at the Three Pigeons in New Brentford will occur during the races.
Multiple horse races announced at the Old Field Course Ludlow, Shropshire, with purses of fifty, twenty and thirty guineas. Entries due mid August at the Market House Ludlow, regulations include crests, entries fees, hunter eligibility, and a morning docking at the Angel Inn Broad Street.
A historic notice details Oxford races at Port Meadow near Oxford city. Four purse events on August 29 30 and Friday with purses of fifty ten twenty and eighty guineas for horses mares or geldings meeting weight and entrance conditions. Contributors and noncontributors face different fees and rules for entry.
Ringwood hosts a race meeting on the Gorely Hills course starting Thursday August 1 with three heats racing for a twenty guinea purse plus saddle. Friday features a ten guinea purse for Galloways and weight allowances, and Saturday offers a five guinea purse for ponies. Entries due three days prior at the Crown Inn Ringwood with a Silver Cup竞sale and daily ordinary and evening assembly.
In Shottery Meadow near Stratford upon Avon Warwick two horse races are set. On Tuesday July 23 a purse of thirty guineas for any horse mare or gelding with entry rules and fees including subscription costs. On Wednesday July 24 a twenty pound purse for similar entrants with separate conditions and entry times. A ball for the ladies each night.
Litchfield hosts purse races on September 6 7 12 at Whittington Heath with purses of twenty ten and forty guineas. Entrants must be entered shown at Mr Edward Holmes The George in Litchfield between two and nine in the afternoon with entrance fees due in registration.
Purse races scheduled for July 23 to 31 at Keats Gore House and Swan Ilsey with entries for horses carrying specified weights, small entrance fees, and conditions on prior winnings. Two ordinary gatherings planned July 30 at Keats Gore House and July 31 at the Swan with evening diversions for ladies and gentlemen.
In Surrey at Lympsfield Common on Monday the 29th a purse of twenty pounds for horses mares or geldings never winning twenty pounds before. On Tuesday the 30th a purse of ten pounds for Galloways not over 14 hands, to eight stone. Weights, entry fees, and penalties listed. entries close 22nd and 23rd instant at Robert Nightingale's White Hart, Lympsfield, 10am to 6pm. one horse minimum to start. disputes decided by majority of contributors.
A notice states an auction by order of Parliament and a High Court of Chancery decree. On the 11th July at four in the afternoon, in Francis Eld's chambers Chancery Lane London, the manor of Hitchtenton and Hudnal with farms and woodlands in Bucks Bedford Hertford will be sold in whole or in parcels. The yearly value is between 500 and 700 pounds. Further particulars are available at the Master’s Chambers.
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