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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jul 24, 1735
Page
3
A fragmented price table lists costs for Corn Malt Wheat Rye Barley Pease Beans Tares Malt and sugars with units in Bushes Lasts and Pounds Shillings and pence. It includes quantities for Hops Tea Brandies Dimes Tallow Tin Copper and Iron and notes importation and regional varieties. The entry reflects a dense catalog of commodity prices and staples in a historic marketplace.
A series of notices including a Bishopstortford school feast on Tuesday September 2 and a London meeting of the New Plantation in Ulster with bidders for salmon purchases. a stray bay gelding, ten years old, 15 hands, with a white hind foot, Roman nose, and star, missing from Bungay parish. a reward offered for recovery.
Horserace notices announce events at Odley Royston with purses of fifty, ten, and ten guineas across Sept 18 to 20. Entries close at Reds Lion Royston and Bull in Royston with various entrance fees. Winners may repay subscriptions and be sold to subscribers if demanded.
A Green Silk Purse found near Covent Garden to Long Acre with bank notes and a note. reward offered at Robin's Coffee-house Shire Lane for return with no questions. Also a ring with four brilliants left behind. ten pounds reward payable at the bar of the coffee house for recovery.
In Chipping Norton Oxfordshire a three day race meeting opens September 16 with a thirty guinea purse for any horse mare or gelding carrying ten stone. September 17 offers eight guineas for Galloways under twelve pounds value. September 18 features twelve guineas for horses mares or geldings carrying ten stones who have not won more than thirty pounds. Entries may be made at the Market House between one and five afternoons. Ball each night and an everyday ordinary.
Notices announce a birthday gathering for Prince William in Tower street with Gentlemen of Poa Society names listed. Also postal details on bankruptcy assignments for Richard Holt and others, property lettings in Brown Street Sarum, and a publication offer for the Osman Empire history in 21 numbers with pricing and delivery.
To be sold to the best bidder before the Commissioners in a bankruptcy case of John Gregory of Castle Alley London. Leasehold estates include three tenements in Chancery Lane Southampton Street and Olbourne opposite Gray's Inn with an annual value of 481 for thirteen years from Michaelmas. Freehold estate comprises thirteen messuages in Harley Suffolk with further particulars from Messrs Shayler Bow Lane London and John Selyardacbury Suffolk.
Publication notice announces a seven part Dutch paper edition of a complete commentary on the Old and New Testament. It promises an explained text with readings reconciled, by a select body of Church of England divines. Weekly sixpence, with multiple printers and booksellers listed for distribution.
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