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Newspaper
Public Ledger
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Apr 18, 1761
Page
4
William Faden is granted a royal license to print publish and vend The Public Ledger after assembling a team to compile it. Authorities warn against reprinting abridging or publishing the work under peril. Court at St James's December 17 1759 in the 33rd year of reign.
A compendium style notice lists LOST items including a Pinchbeck Watch and an old-fashioned Tortoise-shell Watch and describes WANTED positions such as a Gentlewoman in Essex, a Lawyer’s clerical or shop roles, and various domestic servants. Also catalogues misc articles, employment ads, and stock prices from the Public Ledger and Sheffield Advertiser dated April 14 and April 17, detailing houses, trades, and financial instruments.
The issue lists multiple properties and items for sale or lease by auction or to let. Items include a Queen Anns Farthing a Travelling Coach and harnesses, furniture from a gentleman deceased, leasehold houses in Iffington, a freehold estate, household furniture of Mrs Temple, a large brick messuage at Chiswick, furnished and unfurnished houses in Hammersmith Enfield Lambeth Woolwich Totteridge Morden Dulwich Marybone St James End, a shop and a farm near Woolwich, Harrow Wheald Totteridge and other urban properties with stables, gardens and outbuildings.
The notice catalogs numerous real estate items and offices across Yorkshire including manors in Cononley Haugh Eaingwold and Yorks streets Doncaster Coney Street Micklegate Skeldergate Acomb Wakefield Clifton and Barnsley. It also lists an apprentice to an apothecary surgeon and midwives and calls creditors of Roger Strickland Esquire to a meeting.
A list of properties offered by auction in Leeds and surrounding parishes. Included are a freehold dwelling with outbuildings at Cross-preen near Leeds, a brick house with adjoining freehold land suitable for brickmaking, eight freehold and ten leasehold cottages at Quarry-hill, two farms in Woodhouse, an inn in Rochdale, two dwellings in Chapel Town, an inn near the Bridge in Leeds, and two houses in Kirkgate Leeds.
Fragmentary OCR text lists multiple place names including Rotterdam Antwerp Hamburg Paris Cadiz with numbers and dates. Reads like a trade route or shipping ledger entry with unspecified prices and a mix of currencies. No coherent events or persons are established from the readable portion.
A fragmented price list from Madrid to Dublin dated April 17 1761 records various port and commodity values with multiple currency notations including halves and pence. Strong entities appear as Madrid Bilboa Leghorn Geneva Venice Lisbon Porto Dublin and dates.
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