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Newspaper
Public Ledger
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Apr 11, 1761
Page
4
A garbled public notice references a royal or legal petition in a court session dated in the reign year. The readable fragments mention William Fesinath and a plea or audience before a court at a seaside location on a dated day, with officials or attendees named vaguely.
A long catalog announces various ships for sale by candlelight, cargoes including coffee and rice, weapons, and anchors, plus lettings for furnished rooms, a house, and a warehouse in London. Employment ads seek clerks, writers, teachers, and servants, with numerous public notices of auctions, sales, and dividends.
A public notice lists auctions in Barnaby Street and Tooley Street Southwark for eight geldings and mares and a lease of a brick house in Northaw Hertfordshire. Also a dwelling and estate at Roehampton Surrey. Lost items include fourmail keys and a ring. A red Morocco leather pocket-book with silver lock left in a hackney coach. An assistant to a school mistress seeks employment at the asylum. A country agent or land steward to nobility sought. Paymasters of Exchequer Bills announce payoff of 1,500,000 principal and interest.
A dated notice lists multiple properties to be sold or let in Hertford and surrounding areas. Items include a double-keyed harpsichord, a living presentation in Hertford County, an ensigncy in an independent company bound for Germany, a onehorse chaise, a travelling Berlin, an Italian chair, a copyhold estate at Wey tl, a freehold messuage in Elephant Lane Rotherhithe by auction, five freehold houses near Hickes Hall, a garden at Marybbné Ste, houses at South Lane and Welwyn, a house on Shooter's near Hoddesdon.
Notice of multiple properties in Yorkshire to be sold by auction in three lots. Holdings include Copyholt Estate at Kiayton. Meffir ages in Wincomeley Kingston upon Hull. a Wakefield house. a Pontefract house and shop. Etton on the Woulds farms. a Tadcaster house. a Beverley house. a Colliergate York house. and an inn in Leeds. Read by the public.
Listings from the Sheffield Advertiser dated April 7 announce auctions of two freehold houses near Bowram-Top in Halifax and Woodhall in Holdernesle, plus a freehold farm at Broomhead Bradfield. Also notice of letting a dwelling-house and paper-mill on the River Dun near Sheffield.
Partial OCR shows inward and outward ship entries dated April with vessels such as Mother and Daughter and Charming Nancy and persons like Lefas and Brath. References include banks, stock prices, and various vessels like America and Waring. Details are garbled but indicate maritime listings and financial notices from the period.
A historical pamphlet touts a honey based remedy with vegetable balsams claimed to strengthen lungs, stop coughs, and treat consumption. Sold 3s a bottle by Baldwin and Jackson with printed directions and related tonics listed.
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