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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jul 23, 1772
Page
1
A letter defending Moore battles a London Chevalier’s virulent critique of Moores assertions on horses and grocery prices. It argues the chevalier misuses logic, denies horses alone inflate costs, and cites land enclosure trends and dealer incentives as factors shaping the market.
Auction notices list sales by Mr Bever of a bankrupt estate with horse cattle hay corn and farming stock to be sold on premises at Rochampton Surrey and then a freehold messuage and farm near Sittingbourne Kent. The items include carriages livestock waggons hay and implements. Viewing from Monday until sale. Further details from Mr Read Copsthall Court London.
Friday July 17 London reports Prince Ernest of Mecklenburgh Strelitz dangerously ill but improving. Madrid letter notes cotton velvets prohibited in Spain with three month disposal period and 20 month transition. Weymouth reports beef and mutton prices rising. ships Britannia and Anne and Elizabeth return from Greenland with whales and oil. various court cases, robberies, marriages, and obituaries follow with local notices and race results.
A bankrupt estate of Miles Nightingale at Chinkford Hatch near Woodford in Effek will be sold by auction on a date in August. The property includes a neat house with outbuildings, 13 acres of meadow, four acres of leasehold land, a farmyard, gardens, vines, hot houses, a pond stocked with fish, and ~300 evergreen pines. Viewing is allowed and printed particulars are available at the Eagle in Snareforook and Ridgeway’s Norton-Falgate office.
A detailed sale notice announces the auction by THOMAS RIDGEWAY of Everal Freehold Estates near Lipput Devon, with leases on multiple farms including Dolith Lawn Tenement and Cornkeys Overland. The properties, about 100 acres total, are viewed by Mr Seanan of Henitor. The sale is at Garraway's Coffee-house London on Wednesday the 5th of August at twelve, with rack rents and future reversion details provided in printed particulars.
By order of the assignees a bankruptcy sale is held at Mr. Samuel Cole mercer’s home in Bedford Street Covent Garden. Auction days Thursday the 6th and the following day begin at seven each day. Large stock in trade and household furniture listed with many fabrics and silks and remnants. Viewings Saturday and Monday before the sale. catalogues available at the sale site and Mr Ridgeway’s premises.
A large freehold estate valued around thirty thousand pounds near London is offered in eight to twelve thousand pounds of the purchase money. The Norbury Park property includes the Packensham Leatherhead Littlebourg Wuckleham Werthumble Norbury and High Ashurst manors with extensive royalties and a built manor house. Enquiries to Albany Wallis in Norwich Fleet Strand London and Brouwtton in Holhorn for further particulars. The Crown and Anchor Tavern in the Strand to sell on August 26 at 17:00 in separate lots unless privately contracted earlier.
An 18th century pamphlet promotes Velno’s Vegetable Syrup as a cure for venereal and scurvy-like conditions with an appendix of cures. It also touts STOMACH PILLS made from valuable simples as a remedy for long standing or recent stomach and bowel complaints, bile, and bilious cholic, claiming they aid appetite and digestion and offering a money‑back guarantee after trials. Available at Ludgate Street, Hay-market, Capel Court, Spa Row, Clerkenwell, and other London outlets.
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