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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jul 28, 1737
Page
3
Epsom Downs Surrey hosts five Plates across August 23 24 1st 26 27 with varied stakes from ten to twenty five pounds. Horses must meet age and prior wins limits and run best of three heats over a mile each. Entry fees apply via post and stables fourteen days before first Plate. No liquor sales at dawns. long rooms subscribers abstain.
Finchley Common riders race on Monday to prize ten pounds for ponies under fourteen hands with nine stone—heat format, then a silver Spurs and whip for hackneys never won forty shillings, weight ten stone. Wednesday features a hunters plate ten stone, and Thursday a saddle brace for ponies thirteen hands seven stone with weights. Entries due August week, offices named for entry times. at least three to start. disputes resolved by three subscribers.
On July 25 1737 the proprietor of three freehold houses in the Guinea Sussciption notes a raffle begun by Mr Foubert at the orn Tavern Fleet-street and adjourned to August 1 at ten in the forenoon by friends at Bristol Fair. Tickets remain at the Horn Tavern and Foubert’s Crown and Pearl Frith-street to entitle postessor to the same fortune as raffled tickets.
A note of two racing purses at Morfe Common near Bridgnorth. On Thursday Sep 15 a parse of fifty guineas is offered for horses mares or geldings in three heats four miles each. entries due eight days prior with fees for subscribers or non-subscribers. On Friday Sep 16 a purse of fifteen guineas for galloways fourteen hands high, tempers same entry rules, all at Bridgnorth Town Hall.
By acts of Parliament funds are set to acquire lands and rents for fifty new churches. Individuals willing to sell estates within the Bills of Mortality or thirty miles of London should contact Mr Vigerus Edwards of Shire Lane London to discuss purchase.
A notice requests informants that J. B. left on Friday morning the 22d instant and has not yet returned. The family hopes for his safe reception and asks for encouragement and any assistance, at home or abroad, to help in the search or support.
Subscribers are asked to note the annual meeting of Worcester Gloucester and Hereford choirs will be in Worcester on Tuesday the 13th of September with music performances on the following two days. The gathering is deferred a week due to principal performers being engaged at Oxford Races.
Persons who would grant or buy annuities for an heir of the grantor and buyers or owners of lives, or for joint lives, may inform themselves of good opportunities in either case by applying to Michael Newnam at his house in Hatton-Garden. He transacts such affairs with expedition on moderate and easy terms.
To be sold near Scarborough the Manor of Lebberston offering a new brick mansion with freehold estate. It features a front with 21 pane windows six rooms on a floor, stairs, vaulted cellars, offices, yard, barn, stables, granary, cow house, dove coat, coach house for two coaches, nearly an acre garden wall fruit trees orchard and fish ponds. About 840 acres of arable meadow and pasture. Curent near four miles from Scarborough, with prospects for improvements. Var ru lars by Rev Mr Lamplugh and Mr Fell at Furnival's Inn Holborn.
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