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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jun 19, 1759
Page
2
The Salisbury race card for Wednesday and Friday lists purses including the 400 Guinea Mag-aty’s Plate for six year olds or younger, and a silver donation plate on Wednesday. Subscriptions cost one Guinea with terms, and the winner earns fifty pounds plus entry fees. certificates of age must be produced before racing.
Telbury races 1759 set for July 12 and 13 at Tetbury with a purse of pounds offered for horses mares or geldings aged up to seven years. Entries include five and six year olds, senior riders, and special conditions for weight, ages, and entry fees. Separate meetings at the White Hart and other venues mention stakes, penalties, and entrant obligations.
The notice lists a race at Peterborough on July 24 1759 with a purse for horses that have won less than fifty pounds. Ages four to ten years, weights a range from nine to twelve stones. Three heats are planned with a heat race format. more details are promised later.
The 1759 Huntingdon races announce several sweepstakes and purses on Port Meadow. Four year olds contest for Fifty Guinea and One Hundred Guinea events with entries due the day before racing. conditions detail weights, heats, and ownership rules. A cock‑march and local gentleman fellowship are noted during the event.
Stratford upon Avon races announce August meeting with purses for horses never winning fifty pounds and for hunters. Entries by July 31 at the King's Head and Robert Bruce's. fees include entrance and clerk costs. Subscribers and non-subscribers' terms differ. certificates of qualifications required. rules set by majority of subscribers.
Dispatches describe de Broglio taking Post at Zigenhayn retreating to Fritzlar while Prince Ferdinand encamps between Werle and Anna. Fortifications at Leipstadt labeled a petty stratagem for a fortnite, with Marshal Daun’s army movements and multiple Prussian corps converging toward Glogau and Colberg as Rus sian forces cross into Prussian domains.
Albany reports Sir William Johnson meeting 5 to 630 Indians with deputies from four nations pledging support for the English campaign against Niagara. They will deliver prisoners to the Governor and may muster near 1000 fighters, as remote Seneca contingents move toward Johnson’s house for immediate action.
A fragmentary item notes a very large diamond valued at over 20000 pounds sterling aboard the Latham East Indiaman. It mentions a death at Anne De in Rannach and a Donald Cameron, aged about 130, who married a wife when she was over 100, with several garbled place names and ages.
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