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Newspaper
Public Ledger
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Apr 17, 1761
Page
4
In December 1733 at Star Court, William Fadin petitions for a license to print publish and vend the Public Ledger. The Crown grants license prohibiting reprinting or publishing by others under penalty. W Pitt delivers the royal command.
The April 16 London Chronicle public notices advertise auction sales ranging from a widow’s furniture and household goods to a large stock in trade, with listings of charters, leases, and lettings. Also included are bankrupt notices, employment wants, and ships’ inwards and outwards for April 15 to 35.
Notice lists sale items including a brown mare, a coach, bay brown geldings, pheasants and sundry fowls, ten saddie geldings, four fashionable chariots, a mansion house at Navestock Essex to let, a lost Pinchbeck metal watch John Good No 650, a stopped silver table spoon with a cypher, a vacancy for delivering mall parcels, a partner sought in a haberdashery business, and a distressed widow seeking relief with two months to lie in.
Notice is given that there is to be SOLD 1. A Glass Coach 2. The Creditors and Debtors of Mr Richard Wear, late of Aldersgate-street, Upholsterer, and Bug Doctor, deceased. A Map, afflicted with sickness for nine years, begs relief for himself and his three small children and wife.
An advert from April 16 lists items for sale by auction including two double bass viols sundry violins German flutes two harpsichords and other musical instruments. drawers and fixtures of an apothecary stop fixtures and utensils of an apothecary with or without a pair of geldings a four wheel post chaise a port chariot and part of household furniture of a deceased gentleman.
Notice lists multiple English properties offered for exchange or sale including a brick house near the Wet Gate in Winchester, a public house with outbuildings at Margate Isle of Thanet, a house near Biggleswade Bedfordshire, and a land rich property at Dean Southampton. It also mentions exchanging a living valued yearly for a rectory of equal value in a village within reach of London.
Public notices announce a series of meetings for clerical and turnpike matters and list prices for various stocks including Bank Stock and India stock. Maritime market data show exchange rates for Amsterdam Rotterdam Antwerp Paris and other ports with a London high tide time noted.
A partially readable notice announces a public roup sale near Dalke By Lugton, listing a dwelling house, garden, and surrounding land. Lands and farms of Bucklace in Haddingtonshire are included, with location details and sale context implied by the fragment.
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