Beccles Races Purse Events At Suffolk 1762
Beccles, Suffolk, announces two purses in June 1762 for four year old horses and older. June 15 offers fifty pounds with weight for age over three heats, Royal Articles applied. June 16 hosts another fifty pound purse for five or older horses, with weight scales and three heat format, steward notes by Pape Bunbury Palgrave.
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Cha. Bunbury
John Palgrave
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Whitchurch Races at Whitchurch Heath Purse Entries
Whitchurch Shropshire hosts two day race meeting with purses of fifty pounds for two mile heats on June 2 and one mile heats for five to aged horses on June 3. Subscriptions required, entries at the George Whitchurch, two to eight in the afternoon, with certificates and stake rules including starter conditions and guaranteed sums. Hon Arthur Barry Bowyer Leftwich Wynn serve as stewards.
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Whitchurch
Shropshire
Prees Heath
Anne
George
Regular Stage-Coach Route and Auction Notices
Public notices announce a Ludlow to London coach service twice weekly starting Tuesday the 4th, with departures from Ludlow and London at set times and a meeting at Stratford. The sale lists auction items including a dwelling in Ampthill and Sir Harry Parker’s estate goods with numerous furnishings and livestock to be viewed prior to sale.
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London
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Red-lion
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White Hart
Bromsgrove
Joan Bar
Charlton Palmer
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Robert Phipps
Leadenhalltreet
War News Blitz from European Fronts and Courts
Mails from Holland and Naples note Spain England war continuation. Tyrawley vows to head to Madrid with troops after Whitsuntide. Cadiz forms militia. 60 fireships may depart for Algarve. Vienna hints at Bourbon alliance talks and shifting Prussian posture. Paris cites Jesuit seizures. Count d Herouville to command 45,000 French near Dunkirk. Reports from Seville, Madrid, Brussels, and Berlin describe tremors of a wider conflict and expected separate peace talks.
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Spanish privateer seizes fishing boats off Eland Corke
Reports from Iromy Kinsale and Dublin describe a Spanish privateer of eight guns taking two fishing-boats near Eland Corke and releasing them after demanding three casks of beer in exchange for three casks of brandy. Court actions follow as prisoners are examined in Kilworth and Waterford gaols.
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Dublin
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Dublin Journal
Kilkenny
Marriages and deaths in Edinburgh and Aberdeen
Scotland Edinburgh May 1. James Erskine jun. of Cardross to Lady Christiana Bruce, Countess of Kincardine’s daughter. Thursday laft died Sir Walter Maxwell of Pollock. On Wednesday the 28th John Douglas of Fechil, aged 47, died at his house in Old Aberdeen.
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Wiliam Earl of
London News: Dutch Madrid Letters Warn of War With Portugal
Reports from Holland and Madrid dated the 18th indicate war with Portugal has been declared the day before. A Duffel report of April 26 notes an armistice between Allied and Preach armies, while Vienna dispatches say the empress remains silent and the court has not yet answered the czar.
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