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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Sep 18, 1762
Page
2
Burford Oxfordshire hosts Majesty's Plate of One Hundred Guineas on Tuesday October 26 for five year olds. Weights and certificates required by October 25 at the Stand. Purse and rules set for other races with two mile heats and penalties. Entries judged by stewards with specific entrance fees and running conditions.
A notice proclaims Mary Yates of Poole, presumed dead after eloping years ago, inviting return with possible advantage. It also details a catastrophic fire on July 25 that destroyed 135 houses in Poole, causing losses estimated at ten thousand pounds, with trustees and benefactors organizing charitable relief and listing designated receivers and treasurers across several cities.
To be sold and entered on immediately a new brick built house with five rooms on a floor, large kitchen, brew-house, back-house, batteries, fish pond, new six-horse stable, hay-chamber, out-houses, gardens with fruit and evergreens, eight acres of arable and pasture adjoining, in a private inclosed plot in Boxford Suffolk. Village neighborhood. Post goes out and in three times weekly. Enquire of Mr Richard Lifton jun at Boxford.
Letters from Savannah dated July 17 say several deserters from St Augustine have arrived and more are expected. Two French privateers, a brigantine and a schooner, were at St Augustine when they left. Amherst measures cause Augustine distress for provisions. New York items note Gosport convoy to Virginia bringing sterling for the King and movements to Halifax. Additional ships arrive with pork and butter for troops. Philadelphia reports troops bound for Havana via Turk’s Island.
Dublin on September 11 reports five men from each company of the regiment under Colonels Elphinsstone Gisborne Mackay Pomeroy and Cuningame have been drafted and ordered to rendezvous in the city on Monday for embarkation to Portugal.
Edinburgh marked the week with Rev. Mr. Whitefield preaching to crowded audiences since his Glasgow return. On Thursday he was presented with the freedom of the city for his great services, and this morning after sermon he departed for England.
Next morning the younger party continued in the same way. By administering falling oil, he is now in a fair way of recovery though very lame.
Port News from Penzance Gravesend and Deal reports arriving ships including the Prof es sous Davis Nautilus Thorn Peggy and Happy Return. Arrivals list vessels at Guernsey Leghorn New York Philadelphia cork Bristol Liverpool and Falmouth with names consignments and origins such as Weymouth Dublin Guernsey Amsterdam Rotterdam Norwav Campvere Lisbon Gibraltar Antigua St Kitts and Martinique.
Worcestershire markets report cheese at 25s to 27s per hundred with buyers slow and prices dropping. A naval tender fired from Lynn port wounded a waterman who died that evening. Other items record riots at Reach, poisoning in Pilgrim Street, and Hessian dispatches near Friedland with Brunswick troops.
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