Coventry Races 1756 Purse and Hunter’s Plate
The Coventry races of 1756 offer a Gentlemen’s Purse of fifty pounds for horses mares and geldings under fifty guineas. Weights posted for five to eight stone ten pounds, best of three heats four miles per heat. Also a Hunter’s Purse with age and weight limits, entry at Mermaid Inn August 2-9. Subscribers pay entrance and clerk fees. public cages and liquor sale limited to subscribers. Main of cocks added between Warwickshire and Northamptonshire for four pounds.
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Coventry
Por
Coventry Park
Marcues
Ché
Ofiehy Gaurney
Mermaid ‘Inn
Warwickshire
Northamptonshire
Races at Lincoln for His Majesty's Plates in September
Lincoln races schedule for a series of four mile heats on the South Side course. His Grace the Duke of Ancaster and others oversee events from September 14 to 16 with multiple plates and purses, entry fees, and conditions for horses mares and geldings of various ages. The Nag's Head at Waddington hosts entries and certificates of age.
Account of Conferences and Treaties With Six Nations 1755 56
A compiled record published for A Millar details conferences and treaties between Major General Sir William Johnson and Mohawk Oneida Onondaga Cayuga Seneca Tuscarora and other nations at Fort Johnson Albany in New York during 1755 and 1756. Also includes a letter from Rev Hawley to Johnson and notes on Six Nations with an appendix on Quaker meetings in Philadelphia in April 175.
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Sul Jebntes
Onsidas
Sentekas
Adahqua- Heys
Skatlightanos
Mahickandsis
Shawpot
William
Philadelphia
Lewes King's Plate at Lewes Downs in Sussex
Lewes Downs hosts a King’s Plate of one hundred pounds on Friday with heats at Lewes. Entries close at Verral's Coffee House in Lewes a week prior. A fifty pound plate and a match race for five year olds are planned, with rules directed by the Duke of Newcastle. A dark grey gelding is missing since Thursday the 8th, offered reward for return to Mr. Morris at the Black Lyon in Bayeswater, Middlesex.
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Lewes
Downs
Sussex
Jon
Verral’s Cotes House
Newcastle
Arentpeny
Morris
Black Lyon
Bayeswater
Paddidgton
Middlesex
Lancrorp
Jacos Muanpes da Costa
Highgate
County of
China
Hampstead
Wanted Turnover and Apothecary Assistant in London
A Gentleman with a good family background seeks time to the apothecary trade in London. Enquire of Messrs Hopkins and Bayley, Druggists, in Paternoster Row for details and avonata terms.
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Balttes
London
Avatona
Metirs
Hopkins and Bayley
Pater-notter Row
Estates for sale in Crofton and Pontefract Yorks
Historic notice advertises freehold capital messuage with dovecot stabling and twenty acres near Crofton three miles from Wakefield and Pontefract. Also cottages in Crofton tenures and a seven acre plot with ponds. Further property in Pontefract on Ropergate and a three acre meadow close near Mrs Thompson and George Huxley. Enquiries to Michael Scrimshire Pontefract or Alan Johnson Wakefield.
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Crofton
West Riding
County of
York
Loutefrat
Wakefield
Travifas
Richard
Ckamore
Samuel Lee
John Holder
John Over
John Nottingham
Pontefract
Misx
Thompson
Michael Scrimshire
Alan Johnson
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Lincoln
Tueday
Waddington
Duke of
Ancaster
S. Place
Mujity
Elizabethr'Cecils
Lalythip
Jeff
N.B
Joan Cuancrn
Rein Deer
Angel
Grace the Duke of Angaster
Senteman
M. la Forle
Peking
Horfes
Soultorfes
J. Nousse
Catherine-street
Surand
J. Pote
Feon
A. Millar
Strand
Y - High Court of Chancery
John Benier
Chen
William Thorncron
Henricra Street
Cavendish Square
Councy
Digby
John Barnes
St. Giles In the Fields
Deceas
Henrietta Street
Elizabeth
Thomas Blagdon
Lambeth
Surrey
William Barry
St. Dunstan’s
Edward Bennett
St. George’s
Hindver Square
James Brown
Martin
Taylor
Thomas Cock
Wingfield
Erks
Berks
John Des
Surming Hill
New Samim
Phylick
Simon Jenner
New Windsor
William Jones
St. George
Hanover Square
Jane Hyfield
Co - Matthew
Mary
Robert Lwiley
New Sleeford
Jaac Minneer
Richard Milnes
St. Martan
Henry Moniagee
Lincolns Inn
Amuel Creswell
Nottingham
Midlands
Notting- Ay
Sam, Creswell, Ham
Towcester
Mary. Scotton
Fole
Hix Horks
Nessay
John AR Buthnot
Royal Colleges of Physicians of
Edinburgh
Royal Society
J. And.r. Tanton
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