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Newspaper
Public Ledger
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Apr 20, 1761
Page
4
The Crown authorizes William Faden to print publish and vend The Public Ledger. It forbids reprinting abridging or publishing the work without license under penalty. Issued at court in James’s seventeenth day of December 1759 during reign of George II.
A densely packed 18th century advertisement ledger listing sales of livestock hats and pipes, ships brigantines and goods, lost items, found items, and requests for employment and service. Contains a long catalog of public notices from auctions to bankruptcies, dedicating sections to miscellaneous articles and classified opportunities across London and environs.
Notices announce loss of a horse and tackle near Stoke green by Windsor, a silver-hilted sword with a boat shell left in a hackney coach, nine Holland shirts, cloth, shalloon, gold and worsted lace in garments for the Royal Artillery, plus pawnbrokers’ pledged goods with William Bray.
A fragmented notice states items including candles and pipes are to be sold at A Ghindler's shop in Clington Newingtom Baghpey or Ringsland. It mentions fire debtors to Francis Jackman Esq and an anniversary feast held by gentlemen educated at Mr Fangques's Academy Hoxton.
An itemized 18 April notice lists numerous properties and possessions for sale or lease including a yearly annuity, households, and public houses. The listing covers leasehold estates in Clerkenwell, Margate, Bethnal Green, Great Ealing, Tottenham, and other locations with details on furniture, coach houses, stables, and parcels near Thames Street and Barking.
Notice announces sale of several freehold and copyhold estates in Benwick and Ely, Cambridge, in the London Gazette dated April 13. The properties to be sold include lands within the Isle of Ely and related parcels to be conveyed by sale.
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