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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Sep 19, 1771
Page
3
To be sold by auction by suction on Monday the 2nd of October next and the following days at Castle Cary Somerset. The lots include freehold, leasehold, and copyhold estates in Ditcheat and Pitcombe parishes and nearby areas. Printing details forthcoming. For information contact Mr Wilkie in St Paul’s Churchyard LondonMr Collins SalisburyMr Frederick Bath and Kir William Clarke Castle Cary.
By order of executors at Dunstable on Tuesday and Wednesday the 16th of October 1771 the sale begins at ten o clock. The auction features mahogany bedsteads chintz damask and other fine furnishings plus fine china plate linen and kitchen items. Viewings scheduled October 2 14 with catalogues at inns in London St Albans Kemble Hempstead Leighton Luton and Woburn. John Shaw auctioneer at Dunstable.
Listing for the manor of Westwell with mansion and offices near Burford, comprising kitchens, cellars, stables for about twenty horses, dairy, grainery, dove cot, coach house, gardens, and 20 acres of pasture with a pond. Nearby features include fox covers and Burford racecourse with access via Bath and Gloucester roads. Enquiries to Nicholls at Staple’s Inn or Stephens at Kencott. About 23 tons meadow hay and 11 tons English hay, cattle and poultry at tenant’s price expected.
A ten year chronic illness with severe back ulcers from Calchest near Cambridge reportedly cured in five weeks by VEGETABLE SYRUP. Case witnessed by Rev Murhall and Dr Burrows. syrup sold in London and Cambridge outlets with stated prices and agents.
Overseas dispatches detail Ali Bey’s defeat in Syria as Ottoman forces attack during his retreat. Count Orlow returns with ships, rumors of Candia and Morea expeditions arise. Smyrna faces plague with consuls leaving, locals burying the dead. Oczakow capture rumored. Pest hosts emperor with generals arriving. Hesse Rheinfels marriage news and a new mercantile exchange. Stockholm notes poor harvests from rains.
Letters from Williamsburgh Virginia dated July 23 report the House of Burgesses resolved that tobacco damaged in public warehouses by recent floods should be paid for by the public, except tobacco stored over a year. Also noted are Paris gossip on a 20 livre head tax and other European dispatches.
A London column reports fatal powder mill explosions near Moulfey Surrey injuring and killing workers. Other items note violent deaths, marriages ending in death, a Palace Yard stabbing, building collapse injuries, Old Bailey trials with transport sentences, and obituaries. Irish fire in Little Ship Street destroys a hatter’s house and kills three children.
Bath Sept 18 report states William May of Elverton parish aged about 70 was struck by a brickbat during a dispute after a wagon hayride near Hertford bridge. Collyer accused of assault and a coroner's inquest returned an avilful murder verdict. The item also includes multiple medical advertisements for Pyrmont Tablets and herbal snuff praising remedies.
A maritime dispatch lists numerous ships arriving or sailing from various ports. Vessels named include Carolina from fort Baltick, Tom from V, Betty from Liverpool, Rainbow from Lisbon, Unity from Pete and Monster Lass, and several others with origins such as Jamaica Norway Rotterdam and Petersburgh.
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