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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jul 27, 1736
Page
3
Weekly mortality and illness figures listed with totals for males and females, including drownings and suicides, plus a bread price notice and financial market items. Names of seven hundred year 1736 era notices appear alongside stock prices and loans.
A plan or notice for a property or lodging linked to a person named Michael. Enquiries directed to Mr James Hopkins in Lortibard Street near the Post Office for further details.
A notice states a dealer offers top prices for various kinds of plate and promises high quality through experienced staff. He buys, exchanges, and accepts old plate for fashionable new items with generous allowances, continuing current order-from-country service without credit.
The trustees appointed to execute an act of Parliament for road repair in Kensington Chelsea Fulham and nearby Middlesex parishes announce their next general meeting. It will be held at the Greyhound in Kensington Square on Monday the 2d of August at ten in the forenoon.
A silver snuff-box with two gilt lids was stolen near Hammer smith on the Great Road. A Guinea reward is offered for returning the box to the Horse Shoes in Hammersmith.
AX persons who would grant or buy annuities may be served immediately by applying to. This notice signals urgent action for securing life based financial instruments and joint life arrangements. Potential granters and buyers are urged to respond to secure securities and funding.
The 1736 London court records state Mayor Williams with the Common Council resolved to limit the St Bartholomew Fair to three days, from the eve of St Bartholomew to the following two days, to curb disorder, stage plays, and debauchery, with Booths restricted to the ground West Smithfield and publication ordered.
On Tuesday in September next a Plate of Twenty Pounds value for any horse carrying eleven stone will run on the new course at Northampton Beach. A Fifteen Pounds Plate follows on the 16th for ten stone with one guinea entry. A Gentlemen's Place of Forty Guineas follows on the 16th for forty two stone, with three guineas entry. Horses must be shown and entered at the Peacock Inn, subscriptions required, and no horse to be shold by any smith unless they subscribe toward the Town Plate. If only one horse starts the owner pays one third of the value for next year. Winners cannot claim another plate.
Bridgnorth in Salop hosts a September meeting on Morfe Common with a fifty Guinea purse for horses mares or geldings in three heats four miles each. Subscribers pay one Guinea entry, non subscribers two, owner of any winning horse gains 20 guinea extra, two or more runners required. A second event on September 6 offers fifteen guineas for Galloways height six hands, same entry terms and purse split to the second best.
A large mansion house named Mountmatick Hall in Kent near Dartford offers a well stock’d back house gardens fine fruit trees 22 acres of pasture and convenient offices stables coach-house and an adjoining property. Enquiries directed to Mr Pluckrose Mr Tafker or Mr Holme in Fleet Street Dartford or Beecham.
A fragmentary notice from Stow on the Wold Gloucester refers to a disposed item or creature measure details, with limited legible text indicating a place and range of heights. No clear event or action is established by the fragments.
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