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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Nov 04, 1786
Page
7
An itemized advertisement lists perfumery goods and medicines with prices, from Horseferry Somerset House area in London. It includes powders, extracts, washes, wigs, brushes, pencils, and fragrances, plus legal notices and forthcoming publications.
Announcement for the new edition of Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations in three volumes published by Strahan and Cadell. Includes price, format, and editor notes. also lists related works by Sir James Steuart and a survey of Britain by John Campbell with details on contents and bindings.
A merchant announces a large mourning stock with grey and white tabbinets and poplins at usual prices, no advance. He notes a wide range of black armoteens and lucefiring made for family mourning, also sold without advance, offered below other prices.
October 31 1786 notice from the Commissioners of Sewers and Pavements of the City of London informing holders of titled bonds or instruments numbered 88 353 24 40 79 825 etc that they may collect the sums advanced plus interest at the Chamberlain's Office Guildhall on June 24 next and after March 25 next receive further sums with interest, with details signed by Henry Hall Principal Clerk.
Public auction planned in January for valuable freehold and copyhold estate in Great Munden and parishes of Sandon and Yardley. Includes manors of Great Munden and Cassels, multiple farms and lands with various annual rents, tenant details, and a solicitor contact in Park Street, Grosvenor-Square.
The column records a state funeral in London for Princess Amelia, the Marquis of Cumberland’s charitable acts, and a royal probate case. It also reports on Groningen reforms against the Stadtholder, a Paris Chatelet hearing about inheritance and maintenance, and various society items including births marriages and local accidents. The piece mentions Bathing baths rebuilt by Turks, a Dublin wigmaker advertisement, and multiple short notices from Oxford and Clerkenwell elections.
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