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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jul 06, 1738
Page
3
The notice lists racing events for August at Hampstead Heath with purses from five to twenty pounds across multiple days. Entries require minimum numbers, weight allowances, and specific entrance fees, with rules on starting and penalties. The column specifies venues, conditions, and enforcement by subscribers.
On July 5 1738 an administration of the estate and effects of the late Rev Henry Holme Fellow of Trinity College Cambridge is granted to Rev Morgan and Rev Yonge. Creditors and claimants are requested to present debts or demands within one month to the chamber of the college or be prosecuted. all claims must be sent in within the time specified.
Details of horse races to be run at Green Man Epping Forest with purses from ten to fifty pounds on dates in August. Mansfield and Westminster races set with purses of thirty, ten, twenty and fifteen guineas, entry fees, weights, heats, and rules for acceptance, disputes, and prize distribution. Includes conditions for subscribers and non subscribers and penalties for nonparticipation.
Racing dates set for August 8 with a 100 Guinea King’s Plate for six year old horses under 12 stone. Entries due August 7 at Bowling Green House. Also 50, 20 Guinea purses and a Kent county 14 hands class. Bridgnorth races include a 50 Guinea purse on September 4 for ten stone horses and a 15 Guinea purse for fourteen hands gallopers. Entries and weights governed by subscribers and officials.
Notice that four able coach horses with harness coachman and postilion will be at Wrexham, Denbighshire, on Thursday the 13th of this instant. They will stay one night and a day, and gentlemen may hire a coach, chair or chaise to London from Chester or nearby at reasonable rates by applying to the coachman John Wyon at Ely in Wrexham.
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