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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jul 19, 1760
Page
2
An 18th century notice for Pearborough racing events detailing Fifty Pound purses for four year olds and other age brackets, with heats, entry rules, and racing conditions. The advert lists stakes, gate fees, drinking provisions, stalls, and spectators, plus travel directions from London to Lincoln and local tolls.
Henry Crabb Boulton of Ely presides over a Worcester County subscription race plan for five to six year old horses mares or fillies. The purse structure includes entry fees and prizes up to fifty pounds for major heats, with additional sums for Hunters from freeholders. Races span July to August at multiple local venues with specified weights and age rules, and a public breakfast and ball accompany the events.
A corrected notice states that horses in the Four Years old Plate at Port Meadow near Oxford should carry nine stone instead of seven. Bridle and Saddie included. The rest remains as in the original advertisement shared for the race on the Wednesday before August 2.
A 1760 notice details horse races at Burford with purses of fifty and one hundred pounds. Events specify five and four year old horses, two mile heats, and entry conditions including certificates and entry fees. The advertisement sets dates in September and notes rules on heats and stakes, urging owners to enter or face double fees.
The item describes Coventry horse races opening by August 26 with purses of fifty pounds and related prizes. It lists entrants, weights, entrance fees, subscrip tions, and rules for spectators, disputes, and payments. Stakes include four mile heats and the town purse with bridle and saddle terms. The Hon. Andrew Archer serves as steward with arrangements for fights at Mr Keene’s New Pier and notes on course superiority.
A late June to July bulletin reports General Laudobn's camp at Schwarzawalde preparing for a 60,000 man army with reinforcements from Masthal Dam. Interdiction of correspondence between Holstein and Lubeck is ordered by the Grand Duke of Russia. Capitulatory actions, bombardment damage, and planned axis offensives are noted, with references to Count Germain and various German and French forces in activity around ByWenburgh, Marburgh, and Dortmund.
An army assault on the Heights succeeds with heavy losses for the enemy. 800 wounded prisoners and valuable trophies are taken. News from St Jago de la Vega reports Cambridge 86 guns arriving with a large convoy under Admiral Holmes. Sailors’ executions and colonial uprisings are noted in later dispatches.
July report from Oxford notes sixteen Doctors in Divinity two in Physick one in Law and fifty three Masters of Arts received degrees at the university. Bristol reports the Corporation asking Admiralty for a Warship to enforce 40 day quarantine for ships homeward bound from the Streights. Widnesday last a ship’s crew attempting escape at King Road. a Marine shot a boy, coroner finds wilful murder. Yarmouth messages recount French prisoners plotting escape from gaol and a keeper uncovering fretted mould. Beckett, intoxicated and abusive, is shot by a soldier during an attempted escape. Becket dies following imprisonment and inquiry.
Incoming vessels at Deal report on July 19 and 20 with ships outward bound and a royal ship remaining in the downs. An express from The Hague notes French peace talks progress and Italian troops moving, while Guadalupe reports privateers captured and naval letters press for further action.
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