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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Sep 21, 1736
Page
3
A satirical verse piece critiquing architecture and Flattery by Henry Saville style, contrasting grand designs with impractical plans. It mocks Burlingtons Balloon of State and public building schemes, noting misaligned rooms stairs and chimneys while praising the author’s supposed genius. Included are archival burials and 1736 financial notices.
A bankrupt commission against George Pickeard has been superseded and he is dead. His will appoints Mary Pickeard, his widow, sole executrix. All persons indebted to the estate are required to pay promptly or face legal prosecution.
Joan Hopkins, Goldsmith, in Fleet-street near Fleet-Bridge, advertises extensive call for quantities of plate and other valuables. He offers high prices for second-hand plate and jewels, trades old plate for fashionable items with full allowance, and notes careful service and no credit.
A sale notice lists manuscripts and sermons of eminent clergymen as items to be disposed of at the Crown on Shepherd Street near Anover Square. The damaged fragment notes the deceased authors and church connections.
To be sold at Powell's Painted Floor Cloth Warehouse and Turner's Shop near Hungerford Market in the Strand. KIHE belt of Painted Floor-Cloths of all sorts and sizes ready made with beautiful carpet colours and curious figures. Oil painted, thoroughly dry and hardened on durable cloth. Also lifted carpets, hair-cloths, matting and all sorts of Turagry wares. Sold wholesale or retas.
A neat pleasant and convenient house for a middling family toward the fields in Marham street Westminster. Enquire at the Two Blue Balls next door to the said house for terms about a remaining term of about twenty years.
In Brighthelmstone Sussex a large inn named the New Ship Inn is let for a term of years from seven to twenty one. It includes a spacious yard garden stables out-houses and full furnishings. Enquiries directed to Mr Henry Stanbridge or the Widow Sanders at the inn.
R Freeman urges the Commons of Great Britain to forbear seditious expressions and tumultuous assemblies that disturb public peace and threaten civil government. Public notice printed in London Journal N 899, with legal authority cited and local printing details.
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