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Newspaper
Public Ledger
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Aug 14, 1760
Page
4
The king grants Migit Faden a license to print and publish the Public Ledger. The document forbids reprinting or abridging the work by subjects and warns of peril for violations. Dated at Famis's on December 17, 1659, in the thirty third year of the reign.
Public Lenger notices list multiple ships with origins builds and burdens offered by private contract or candle auction. Vessels include Wolfe Stretham Tyger Samuel Boston Packet Hawke Elizabeth Warner Pallas Saunders and others, with cargoes Benjamin and Samuel Phoenix and miscellaneous articles including Chinese letters and literary extracts.
A London Public Ledger notice lists stolen items including 37 pearls in paper, a silver watch maker William Pickering No. 1754, a green silk umbrella, saddle bags, a dog, a puppy Rover, and various garments. also wants include a millinery partner, annuity purchase, wholesale partner, property between Charing Cross and New Bond Street, and multiple employments offered.
Notice is given that there are to be sold or let multiple properties in Dorset Hampshire Wilts Berks and surrounding areas including a house with an orchard in Bridport a dwelling house and land at East Hendred a house and malthouse at Salisbury a fulling mill at Elme near Froome a farm at Millbrook near Southampton a farm at Berry near Gosport a house and garden near Blandford a dwelling house and garden with a farm at Alcott an estate at Rockley an inn at Gosport and an elopement notice involving Anthony Collingwood and Robert Newman plus job listings and a £3000 freehold security. Another section lists lands near Alloa and the sheriffdom of Forfar to be sold by public roup.
Public Advertiser notes sale of the brigantine Experience of 120 tons built at Plantation by candle light. Also lists missing items including a woollen cloak bag contents, and stolen items: a midshipman’s uniform coat black breeches and a white sartout coat.
Notice announces sale of the Freehold and Leaichold Houses of Mr. Charles Wainwright deceased. Also found items include seven lean cows and a black gelding. A reward is offered for apprehending and convicting the person who last Sunday evening broke open and robbed a house in New Rents Saint Martin's Le Grand. The father of the young lady who left him some time ago advertises regarding her abettors.
A Daily Advertiser item lists items for auction including Samuel Farley deceased estate papers, sermons, materials, city gate plans, and various properties for leasehold and freehold near London. Notable entries include houses in Piccadilly Great Wood Street Old Broad Street Pall Mall Holborn Greenwich and public houses. Elizabeth Roberts and friends appear as bidders or donors on a Friday.
A fragment notes sailors of His Majesty's Ship Seahorse formerly with the Afsittance absented themselves without leave and have been given notice.
Notice announces sale of a house and shop in Newcastle upon Tyne and other premises including timber blocks in Gateshead, freehold near Greenhold in Westmorland, copyhold at East Boldon Durham, shares of an iron furnace at Clifton near Cockermouth, a Mercer’s shop and dwelling at Bedale, a farm near Wednesham in Durham, and a shorthand note that Ralph Watton, an apprentice to Thomas Ure, has eloped.
The notice lists properties including a dwelling house in South Shields a glaze mill at Skiningrave Yorkshire a farm at High Buttoh Northumberland several farms of land at East Denton and other premises and a common brewery near Stockton Durham. The sale and letting details appear in the August issue of the Mewcastle Journal.
Notice lists several premises including Abbotts Carswell Ottery St Mary Millbrook and Exon properties with dwellings teases and tythes in Devon Cornwall and Plymouth Dock. It states an apprentice Robert iufeit runaway from John Taylor and seeks information.
A Bath Journal notice advertises an inn in Warminster Wiltshire and several properties in Bath including a house in Stall-street and a house in Lady Mead. It seeks a servant to hunt a pack of beagles and a boy to drive a coach chaise.
Public notice lists multiple parcels to be sold or let including a farm at Lower Siddington near Cirencester a freehold estate near Glascomb in Radnorshire a dwelling in St Johns Street Glocester and several houses at Kington Hereford titley and Upper Brayton. Also notes a dwelling in Rots and a public house in Lower Northgate Street Glocester plus deserter notices and executorial inquiries involving Samuel Ward Dominique Laffaile Alice Williams and George Thomas and warnings to William Williams creditors and debtors of Llandovery.
The Buen Pastor under K del Valle sails for Bilboa Swift, John Davison ships bound for Lisbon, Mariana Maria with J deMey goes to Flanders.
An OCR fragment lists numerous names and roles tied to a Foreign Office document. The legible items include various titles such as Mr., Captain, Mrs., and Esquire, followed by a mix of surnames and given names like John Van Rykerorfel, William Co., Jacob More, Mont LeBaron, and Joseph Gosford. The text appears to catalog recipients or addressees, with phrases such as To Robéte Whitheld and not merchant at Abrahan. The fragment ends with references to legal figures like Captain Lawrence, Mr. Benjamin Belmonte, and Attorney Mr. Daniel Leg Blon, among others. The overall content is unclear and heavily garbled.
The entry notes high water at London Bridge observed at 25 minutes after 4 in the morning and again 10 minutes after 4 in the afternoon, indicating fluctuating tide levels on that day.
A fragment listing stock prices and financial instruments with various percentages and terms. Includes Bank stock, India ditto, South Sea ditto, annuities, 3 percent, bank circulations, Hungary, Dantric, Royal Assurance, and Navy bills. Also notes premia, lottery tickets, and foreign bonds with figures like 137, 93, 84, 85, 1756, 1758, 1760, 797.
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