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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Oct 31, 1738
Page
3
Art Bris. of Alma Nack for the year 1739 will be published together at Stationers Hall on Tuesday the 218th Day of November infant.
Governors invite residents of or near London to contribute to the County Hospital charity. Subscriptions may be paid to Meff Hoare and Company, Fleet Street. Over six hundred patients have been relieved, buildings and repairs finished, hospital fully equipped, with more than one hundred poor sick under care.
An early notice warns against decoys and impositions in the goldsmith trade. It promotes Brafier Hopkins of Fleet Street as a chief dealer in second hand plate and watches, claiming low prices and large stock. It notes engravings will be removed before sale and states no credit.
To be sold by auction to the higher bidder at the Castle Tavern Fleet Street on Monday 13th instant between 3 and 5 in the afternoon. Freehold messuages in Shoe Lane between Harp Alley and Stonecutter Street. Particulars and abstract of title available at Mr Townsend’s attorney in Wine Office Court Street.
Public notice explains that Andrew Ben Benjamin Lens, limner and second son of Hernard Lens, now residing at Knighesbridge near the Hospital, works as usual and not Peter Lens, the youngest son formerly linked to Mr MacCulloch’s in Broad Street near Golden Square.
A black horse with a star and white nose, one wall eye, marked M.P. on the buttock, about fifteen hands high, seven years old with two white heels behind has strayed from the grounds of Mr. Matthew Palmer at Bishop Stortford Parsonage Hertfordshire. A Guinea reward and reasonable charges offered for return to Stortford Parsonage or Mr John Mafkah at the Pewter Pot Leadenhall Street.
Description of a lettable four room house on a floor with closets and kitchens below. Next to the Park in St James's Place St James's Street. Front house features a sun dial on top and a garden before the parlour windows. A door opens into the ark.
Letting notice for a house and brazier's shop in Blackmoor Street near Clare Market. Goods in the shop to be sold cheap while Merfon is dead. Inquiries at the house for details. Part of the house is let into lodgings to good tenants.
A notice describes a raffle of shares in the large centre house on the east side of Grosvenor Square, formerly held by Sir Robert Grosvenor and then Mr. Simmons. The property includes extensive offices, stables for 24 horses, and a security machine by Mr Foubert. Shares priced at 3d each, with proceeds advancing funds and conveyed by lease for 84 years from Christmas 1979. Proposals and share sales at White's, Mr Smith’s, Will’s Coffee House, and the Grosvenor Square house.
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