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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jul 05, 1763
Page
2
The notice describes August racing at Blandford York with fifty pound purses for four and five year old horses, entry fees, penalties, and conditions. It also covers Heberwick and Warwick races for 1763 with four mile heats, weights by age, entrance and subscription rules, and disputes settled by a majority of subscribers.
By Order of the Trustees a portion of the estates of the late Earl of Abingdon will be sold. The property includes the manors and lands of Lavington Daunterey Marden and other small estates in Great Cheverell Bishop’s Cannings Worton Putney and Spy Park in Wiltshire. The Bishop of Salisbury holds a life lease on Bishop’s Lavington and Hurst Farm is leasehold for life. The estate comprises a capital messuage gardens a park and about 9600 acres with annual value about 4400 pounds, portions on rack rents and remaining by leases for multiple lives. Lavington is about 4 miles from Devizes 87 miles from London and 20 from Bath and Salisbury. Particulars from Mr Thomas Walker Oxford Mr Robert Palmer London and Sir Samuel Sainsbury East Lavington.
A notice describes a July race at Tetbury Court with fifty pound purses for five and six year old horses mares or geldings that have not won fifty pounds since March. It details weights bridle saddle and entry fees, best of three heats over two miles or three and four mile heats for other age groups, certificates of age, and distributions of entrance money and prizes. Samuel Brackwise Esq serves as Steward. usual taverns and assemblies listed for daily events.
An 18th century ad list details purses for four and five year old horses at Bickton Heath near Shrewsbury with entries due September and October. It covers race weights, entry fees, conditions, and disputes resolved by five subscribers, plus notices for ordinary inns and a town subscription. Additional items include patent shot sales, a letting of a house in St Giles Oxford, and property for sale near Aylesbury with manor details and leases.
A London news sheet today cites letters from Flanders and Vienna dated June and July. It notes English ships supplying capital, Catholic King orders to restore Holy Sacrament towns, and a murder case in Verona tied to Count Nogarola. It also details local notices from Sherborne about Rev Bowyer's death and related clerical appointments and crimes near the Monu ment on Pansdown.
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