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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Nov 04, 1766
Page
2
Creditors of William Paice the Elder of Basingstoke are to meet at The White Hart in Basingstoke on Thursday the 7th instant in the forenoon to render accounts and apportion a dividend to his creditors.
The notice details multiple sales by decree of the High Court of Chancery. Properties include a Gipsons farm with dwelling, outbuildings, and 14 acres of arable and pasture. a Mountlake area estate. Hilton area farm. and a large freehold estate in Laner‑ley Carmarthenshire with cottages, outbuildings, and timber rights. Parties may contact Messrs Flack and Fox, plus various solicitors, for particulars and bidding conditions.
notices advertise two auctions one in Beaumaris Anglesey for freehold estates once held by the late Rev Robert Lewis with incomes around 2431 and 991 pounds, and another in Covent Garden London for Cold Harbour Kent freehold estate with about sixty acres. Details request inquiries to Williams in Anglesey or Peake in Lincoln's Inn.
The piece reports rumors of large weekly wheat consumption for starch and powder, alarming the public. It cites figures of up to a thousand quarters weekly in town, with broader country usage, urging authorities to curb excess to prevent famine, while noting occasional price relief measures and local trials of excise officers for abuses.
Reports from London describe a noon chase at St James's and court appearances by the Earl of Chatham and the Grenvilles. Tomorrow the Duke of Cumberland is to visit the court with nobles, foreign ministers, and gentry to greet the Royal family. Also noted are arrivals of the Kizh Homs and other peers at Brook Street and Grosvenor Square.
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