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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jul 17, 1733
Page
3
The notice outlines August events near Oxford with horse races for King’s Plate and local purses. Heats determine winners, entrants pay entrance and contributions, weight allowances apply, and riders must show age certificates. A Ladies Plate on August 31 offers eighty guineas for six year olds, with conditions on prior wins and entries.
In Chelmsford Essex the High Sheriff and Grand Jury along with clergy and freeholders reported that the Honorable Lord Walden and Sir Robert Abdy should stand as Knights of the Shire candidates at the next election. The Lord Tylney opposed the conjunction and urged supporters to resist engagement.
A schedule for a three day meeting starting Monday next at Wimbledon Green with purses of fifteen and ten guineas for mares geldings and horses. Each heat requires entry seven days prior at Thomas Nutshat's with fees one and a half guineas or two guineas, weight allowances and entry rules specified for each day. At least four horses must start per prize.
Notice of two day racing at Bromiley with purses of twenty five guineas and fifteen guineas for horses never winning above values. Entries due at William West's Tiger Mason's Hill six days before races. Entrance fees two guineas or three with options. Race conditions specify 14 hands and weights to be carried by horses, with restrictions on prior wins.
A ten year old mare described as near two hands high with a white saddle and swelling on the inside hind leg is missing. A reward of a guinea plus reasonable charges is offered to the finder who notifies Preston at Falmer near Lewes, Sussex or Mr Parker at the King's Head in St Pauls Churchyard, London.
A fragmentary notice details multiple debts owed to various individuals with sums, names, and recipients. It urges payment by Saturday next to Mr Thomas Fowler, Grocer, White Horse, Gracechurch Street, offering a reward for returning the bills and with no further questions asked.
A brown mare about 13½ hands with two white saddle spots on the near side and a white spot by the near ear is reported stolen from the grounds of Mr Thomas Hurison at the Crown and Post-House in Sevenoaks in the night of the 7th into the 8th. The mare is seven or eight years old, with a long swish tail, thick neck, and is described with a cirlce white spot by the near ear. A reward of one Guinea and all charges are offered for information leading to her return to Thomas Sontloe at the George Inn yard in Southwark or to Thomas Harrison.
In Odiam County of Southampton about 35 miles from London stands a large brick house with six rooms on a floor and full conveniences. It includes two coaches, two barns, granaries, gardens, an orchard with options for meadow and arable land totaling about fifty acres. Enquiries through Joseph Coylgarne at Jonathan's Coffee-house or Mr. BlaAllman's at the George in Basingstoke. Noted as suitable for a hunting-seat for a person of distinction.
Auction notice for stock in trade of Mr Henry Sc at his late business. Items listed include designs, various goods and chattels. Sale to-morrow at Henry Vil's Chapels with additional articles described in fragmentary terms.
The item lists scattered fragments from a colonial publication printing laws relating to the Church and Clergy, plantation governance, and legal precedents. It references the Lords Commissioners of Trade and Plantations, printers to the King’s, and various acts tied to the Barbados island regime and colonial administration.
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