Vast Fire Destroys Warehouses and Goods in Town
A massive blaze swept through a large cotton warehouse and adjacent storerooms sending flames across to multiple nearby properties. The loss is estimated above 16,000 pounds sterling with most buildings and goods burned, while no injuries are reported. The incident prompted concern over insurance strains and potential market effects on bread, corn, and trade.
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Hety Ceadle
Tyre
Mr. Webb
Colleior
Mr. Kirwan
Mr. Thompson
Me. Farrell
Mr. Houghton
Ir. Fenton
Mr. Fauto
Africa
Constantinople
Amsterdam
Faris
Theodore
Debi
Hague
Holland
Spain
Corsica
The
India Company
Vianen
United Provinces
States-General
Uhlefeldt
Barbary
Europe
Santa Cruz
Great Britain
Match of Cockfighting at Oxford Oxfordshire and Bath
A weeklong cockfighting match begins Monday the 23d with London and Berkshire facing Oxfordshire and Bath for a Battle and the odd Battle. The Cross and the Flower de Luce will provide a daily ordinary during March, with a gentleman ensuring wine service to satisfy all attending gentlemen.
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Oxford
London
Berkshire
Oxfordshire
Bath
Freehold Estate for Sale Near Lincolnshire and Grantham
Person offers a freehold estate valued around 20001 and nearby Lin colnshire. Interested buyers are directed to contact Mr Hibbins at Stretton Grounds by the Broadway in Westminster for arrangements.
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Lincolnshire
Grantham
Hibbins
Stretton Grounds
Broadway
Westminster
Landowners of Guldzford Parish to meet at Tenterden
The Proprietors of Lands in the Parish of Guldzford in Sussex are desired to meet at the Waoll-Pack at Tenterden on Thursday the 2d day of June next at ten o’clock in the forenoon to consider matters concerning their lands.
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Guldzford
Sussex
Tenterden
Shrewsbury Races Announced On New Course Near Town
The program lists races on the new course at Shrewsbury for June 28 and the following Wednesday. Purse amounts are thirty and twenty five guineas with events for horses mares and geldings over various ages. Subscriptions, entry rules, and penalties are described, along with a cocking at the Raven Inn each morning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shrewsbury
Arly
Beccles Racing Purse and Entry Details Amid Estate Notice
At Beccles Suffolk on Monday next the Purse of 10 pounds and a 30 Guinea purse follow. Galloways and horses carry weights with entry fees for contributors or non contributors. Entry closes with conditions and an assembly notice at the Town Hall. Also a bankruptcy dividend notice for Joseph Brett estate overseen by Thomas Hill with meeting at Pontac's in Abchurch Lane.
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Beccles
Suffolk
Galloways
Horkemansh
John Harris
Kepe
Town Hall
Joseph Brett
Fjret-Street
London
Deceas
Thomas Hilly
Cheapside
Linnen-Draper
Troft
Joseph Brerc
Thomas Hull
Thomas Hill
Norice
Chanery
Forchwich
N. B
Pontac’s
Abchurchlane
Deferter in Guards Regiment Offered Reward
Lieutenant-Colonel Brackley’s Company seeks corporal William Gore born in Comath nigh Wildan Bedfordshire. Height five feet ten inches, age 32, dark brown hair, fair complexion, a husbandman. Reward four guineas plus 29s for return to Maynard Guerin in King Street Westminster as Crown Court agent.
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Brackley
Foot- Guards
Charles Willsy
William Gore
Comath Nigh Wildan
Bedfordshire
Maynard Guerin
Farm and Land to Be Sold by the Assignees of Samuel Johnson
The farm and several parcels of land in Grundisburgh near Ipswich Suffolk, partly freehold and partly copyhold, in the occupancy of Robert Cavermole, value five pounds yearly. Details available from Charles Sparrow at Gracechurch Street or Spencer Man in Basing Lane, assignees’ estate, or from Mr. Goodchild Clarke, Ipswich lawyer.
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Samuel Johnson
Grundisburgh
Ipswich
Goodchiid Clarke
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France
Bank
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Prem
Royal Exchange Assurance
Mine Adventure
Eimperor
Exchequer
Cenc
Cenr
Ditra
Crown
Fordingridge
Hampshire
Giles Taylor
Lyons Inn
Norris
Fordingbridge
Richard Bennett
Warfield
Bridgnorth
County of
Salo
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