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Newspaper
Public Ledger
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Aug 19, 1761
Page
4
Public Ledger granted license to Wilken Faden for printing and vending the work, forbidding reprints. The issue includes notices, auctions, sold properties, employment wants, and miscellaneous advertisements from Ipswich to Reading with many named locations and items for sale or rent.
A historical market summary shows currency and metal prices from Amsterdam to Lisbon, with金币 and silver per ounce listed. Rates for Hamburg, Paris, Bordeaux, Cadiz, Madrid, Bilboa, Leghorn, Geneva, Venice, and Lisbon are cited alongside light and heavy coin measurements. High water readings for London Bridge are noted, with times given for morning and afternoon tides.
Notice that lettings are set for the brick and tile works at Preston Pans and an enclosure of ten acres from which clay is dug. Also in tack the brick and tile works near the Church of South Leith.
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