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Newspaper
Public Ledger
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Aug 05, 1760
Page
4
Our gracious royal grant authorizes William Faden to print publish and vend the PUBLIC LEDGER for sale and distribution. Subjects are forbidden to reprint abridge or publish the work under penalty. The license dates to St James's Court on the seventeenth day of December 1759 in the thirty third year of the reign.
A scanned page from a historical public ledger lists sales by candle, desertees, and rewards, with notices of life annuities, unclaimed goods from the Dorset, and continued rum sales. It includes job wants, hiring, lectures, and miscellaneous articles such as cocks for fight, ship sailings, and bankrupt estates, with numerous place and person names. The piece resembles an index to advertisements, proposals, schemes, orders, meetings, subscriptions, transactions, invitations, and amusements printed in a colonial era weekly.
August 4 Record notes lost stock and utensils of soap maker Mr John Young. A Dutch built boat is reported stolen. A dark bay mare pony is listed as wanted. Also notices seek a good Italian chair, with or without a horse.
Daily Gagetteer lists an auction of several coaches and landaus plus a pair of pompadour breeches. Samuel Richardson cautions readers to beware of trusting Ann, his wife, in a notice appearing with the sale listings.
A broad 18th century auction and notice list advertises lots including five marble slabs cork jackets a four wheel portciane a house by auction leasehold estate in Wood s Close and remainder of a lease near Stamford Hill household goods of Mr Edwards furniture of John Tuff by auction an officer s tent and other goods stock in trade of a glass seller a farm near Edgware and a house at Hillington near Uxbridge lettings at various locations a house and wharf at St Catherine s a small house near Somerset Gardens an apothecary shop a shop in Hatter s Way a public house and deserters recruits and thieves with rewards offered lost goods including silver spoons a small black dog a bandbox and two notes.
August 4 notice warns that John Furner of Captain Cusack's Independent Company is deserted. His person is described and a reward is offered for apprehension.
A mixed block of notices lists multiple auctions for properties including the Manor of Eccles and premises in St Martin s Oak Hardley Hempnall Hempton Green Downham Market and Fuller s Hole plus an oatmeal office and a house in Downham Market Also a desertion notice for Robert Johnson from a Royal North British Fusileers recruiting party with a reward for capture and a job listing for a rabbit and game keeper at Thetford and a house steward at Norwich
Salisbury Journal notes a quantity of plantation yarn at Portsmouth to be shipped and at Southampton bound for delivery. It lists a sloop Nancy of 14 tons by Antion at Southampton and mentions a brewhouse and dwelling at Farringdon, Berks. An inn at Warminster appears in the record. Joan Dunham of Lopam near Crookhorn in Somerfethshire has notice given her of some advantage.
A period notice itemizes properties and valuables including a stoop with 300 quarters of corn at Wivenhoe in Eisex 7 a dwelling house in St Clement Street Ipswich a house near Cornhill Ipswich an inn in Chelmsford Essex sixteen pipes red wine five pipes white port vintage 1758 a farm at Little Waldingfield Suffolk Orfold a house in Woolpit Street and a public house in Bury St Edmunds Suffolk.
The August 1 issue lists items for sale or letting in Liverpool including the British built Snow Minerva burden 180 tons by candlelight, three dwelling houses in Milk Street, two houses in Old Hall Street, a large Malt Kiln in Fall Land, several apprentices for the China Work, and notices to creditors and debtors of Thomas Thelwall and the late Mr Thomas Bryan of Lannerchymedd.
Reading Mercury lists several parcels of land including freehold and copyhold holdings in Warfield Berks two closes and a close of freehold with two copyholds and a malt house and house in Broad Street Reading and a house in London Street Reading. It also notes a journeyman tailor in Reading under WAN LED.
Notice states multiple properties to be sold by auction including two freehold houses in Oxford and Upton upon Severn Worcester county, a freehold estate in St Aldgate Oxford, a farm at Easham Oxford, a dwelling at Letchcomb Regis Berks, and a house at Chipping Norton. Also a miscellaneous note about debtors to Stephen Pittaway, ironmonger and white fore, Oxford, deceased.
Cambridge Journal reports an auction of an estate at Wilburton in Cambridge County. The notice lists participants including James Margrave apprentice to Joseph Dickinson, Alexander Perkins from his master James Little, and John Quincey apprentice to Mark Le Fever. Auction details specify the property and interested parties should attend as per the public notice.
A list of ships entering inward on August 2 includes the Loyal Jane from Camp Louisieana, the Toft Norway Lion from Cape Francois, the Elizabeth from Norway De Antfangiers, the Princess Wales from Rotterdam, the Coronation from Greenland, and several other vessels such as the Friendship, Fortune, Ersestina Johanna, and Mary from multiple ports including Amsterdam, St. Kitts, and James.
A list of letters directed to Perfong and many officials including James Barratt and Henry Linard, detailing addressees across foreign and inland offices. The roster includes merchants, captains, lawyers, and officers such as Captain Fran Puig, Captain George Porter, Mr Daniel Leg Blon, Lieutenants Campbell and Robson, and Sergeant Duncalf along with Mrs Howard and Mr Parolett.
Report notes high water levels at London Bridge on this day with readings at 57 minutes after 6 in the morning and 22 minutes after 7 in the afternoon, indicating spring tides and tidal variation.
Pricing list from the Corn Exchange in Mark-Lane showing wheat to barley, oats, flour and various malts, seeds, and hemp seed. Stock prices include Bank Stock, South Sea, annuities, bank annuities, India bonds, and Exchequer Bills with specific per cent values and a par lottery ticket note.
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