Assembly to Open at Reading Town Hall on Tuesday
The Assembly will be opened at the Town-hall in Reading on Tuesday the seventh of July and will continue every Fortnight for the entire Season.
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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jun 17, 1735
Page
3
The Assembly will be opened at the Town-hall in Reading on Tuesday the seventh of July and will continue every Fortnight for the entire Season.
Postponed Boston races outline August events with purses on the sixth seventh and eighth of August. Details list weights, heats, charges, and entry rules for subscribers and freeholders of Bolton and associated towns. An assembly at the Town-hall is noted for Wednesday and Thursday nights.
Public racing at Worthy Downs near Winchester features multiple plate contests in August. Events include two twenty pound plates and a forty pound plate with weights, entry fees, and rules set by aristocratic officials. Cock-fighting, balls, and assemblies accompany the gatherings each morning and night.
The notice announces that Hat Thomas Alcock at the Black Bull Stamford has moved to the George Inn Stamford where gentlemen may expect civil usage and good entertainment. Property to be let by year or lease for term un furnished at Navestock near Brentwood Essex, 15 miles from London, with 53 acres. Mansion House of Mr John Thomlinson, a modern brick house with rooms on a floor, brewhouse, coach half, messuages, and gardens walled with orchards. Enquiries to Jerana Hookfeller or Mr John Clarke Cornhill.
Enquire at Mr Gooding saddler near Mirror Court Blees Street John Saunders Bridgeman Bridgefoot Staines George Wraysbury or Mr Barrer White Hare Windsor for a newly furnished brick house with floor level garden coach house stabling for eight horses and offices, located near Wraysbury Windsor area.
An announcement details Hogarth prints titled A Fair and a Rake’s Progress. Subscriptions are taken at Hogarth’s Leicester Fields shop until June 23 with half a guinea down, balance on delivery. Prints prepared from Hogarth paintings, delivery by June 25, price to rise after initial period. Parliament acts enforce protection of author’s rights to deter copying.
Printer Thomas Bakewell announces copies of Hogarth prints will be published and sold at 2s 6d each to prevent imitations. He states Hogarth consents to publication under the Parliament Act and urges booksellers and printsellers to sell without penalty in town and country.
A. Stewart, 2 Hawker, was attacked near Stirrup Road on Epping Forest between Epping and Waltham Abbey. Lads stole 129 guineas, silver items, rings, boxes, a silver watch, spoons, buckles, thimbles, and more from him. Descriptions: two 6-foot tall thieves with light coats and patched faces, ages 30 to 49. Police urged informants to report to Silversmith William Threeve of Lombard Street.
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