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Newspaper

Public Ledger

Location

London, Middlesex, United Kingdom

Date

Aug 16, 1760

Page

4

Public Ledger License Granted in 1659 Crown Proclamation

George R 7 Herbas requests grant for William Faden to print publish and vend The V Public Ledger after costly compilation by named gentlemen. Subjects forbidden to reprint abridge or publish under peril. Issued at St James Court December 17 1659 by W Pitt for the Crown.

George R. 7 Herbas William Faden V ¥ Public Ledger William Faden St. James’s W. Pitt

Long London notices mix auctions ships and lost property

Public notices and advertisements list sales, cargos, lost items, wanted jobs, and rentals across London. Items include ships Triton and cargoes, muscovado sugar, Guadeloupe coffee, a translated Voltaire letter, and various houses, warehouses, and public houses for let or sale. Also many rewards, debt notices, and employment requests appear alongside books and pamphlets for sale.

Notices and wanted items from the August 15 issue

The Public Advertiser lists items lost or found including a woollen cloak bag and two gowns, plus notices for a shop assistant position, a reward for a Kentish Town burglary, coal volunteers for the London Hospital, first fifty admissions for smallpox inoculation, and J H a Strand glazier at bail.

Youblic Advertiser Strand Kiddermanker Kentith Town London Hospital J. H. Late

Notice of Auction and Occupation Seeking Help

Daily Gazetteer notes sale by auction of a brick house with coach house garden and land at Long Ditton. Also lists a person seeking employment as steward or bailiff to a noble or gentleman. Miscellaneous item mentions the father of a young lady who left him advertising regarding her abettors.

Pallmall Halfmoon Street Picadilly Holborn Maize Pond Southwark Freedom Peter Pettit Mary John Moor Anthony Marth Richard Morgan Sancho Lincoln’s Inn Fields Southampton Row Bloomsbury Square Berkley Hanover Squares New Market Iwo Bedford-street Gevent Gardens James Gillespie Chigwell Row Essex Long Ditton

Notice of Auction and Letting Items in City Listings

A notice lists items to be sold by auction including an estate at Sunbury Middlesex several houses in Piccadilly and near the Old London Span a brick messuage and premises near Stamford Hill stock in trade of Thomas Dawson broker house furniture of Rev Thackeray at Harrow and fixtures of a grocery and snuff shop Also a lease remainder and a spot of ground near Blackfriars Stairs to be let all dated August 15 and published in the Daily Anbertiser.

Sunbury Middlesex Portland Catton Picadilly Old London Stamford Hill Thomas Dawson Thackeray Harrow Black Friars Stairs

Property listings in Coventry and Warwickshire auctions

A listing of multiple property deals dated August 11 includes a dye-house with land on Spon Street Coventry a freehold estate at Drayton Northampton a freehold messuage and land at Bromwell Warwick a house at Kenilworth Warwick and a dwelling house on the High Street Warwick aimed at potential buyers and investors.

Spon Street Coventry Drayton County of Northampton Bromwell Warwick Kenilworth High Street

Letters directed to Persons unknown in Foreign Office notes

Fragmented OCR lists many names including Monf William Monf Dominique Magalli Monf De Peircy Monf Babtille Madam Louisa Monf Charles Bontemy Mr Larch Meff Peter Dominick Joyce Myn Heer Huift Haaccon Myn Heer Bright Long Al Sig William and Co Mont Joseph Waine Sir Wm Riches A Don Elias Froughton Mr Jacob Mare Monf Pre Fabrequette Monf Louis Carpenter Madame Balonie Monf Jaques Duezoe

Oreign Willalm Monf Dominique Magalli de Peircy Babtille Louisa Monf Charles Bontemy Larch Peter and Dominick Joyce Myn Bright Long al Sig William, and Co Mont Joseph Waine Wm. Riches Elias Froughton Jacob Mare Pre. Fabrequette Louis Carpenter Balonie Jaques Duezoe

Stock and bond prices from London 1760 market list

A detailed price list shows stocks, annuities, bank and government securities, and exchange rates. It covers Indian stock lines, bank annuities, three and a half percent consols, various bonds, lottery tickets, and foreign exchange with rates for Amsterdam Rotterdam Paris and other ports dated Friday August 15 1760.

India Ditto Royal Assurance London Dantrick Amsterdam Rotterdam Antwerp Bilboa Leghorn Genouz Venice Lisbon Porto Dublin

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