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Public Ledger Licence Granted in 1759
The note records King George II granting William Wade a license to print publish and vend the Public Ledger. It commands subjects not to print abridge or publish the work under penalty. Dated at St James’s December 17 1759 in the 33rd year of the reign.
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Willian
William Fade
St. Famés’s
W. Pitt
St. Paul's Church-Yard
New-cross Turnpike
Charles Rix
Barnes
Surry
King’s Bench Prison
John Newell
Old Gravel Lane
Kington
Herefordshire
Wotton-under-edge
Glocestershire
Tetbury
Usk
Brecon
Dursley
St. John the Evangelist
Birmingham
West Bromwich
Staffordshire
Cardington
Shropshire
Bull-street
Shrewsbury
Yardley
Worcestershire
Seething-lane
London
Abbelly
Dallycott
Newcastle
Waverley
Shenstone
Litchfield
Wolverhampton
Heightley Demesne
Winsbury
Aginny
Bridgnorth
Rudgley
Hasney
Baldwin
Paternofterrow
Jackson
St.James's Street
Meff
Baldwin Cooper
Davis
Gilead
Kearfly
Golden Lion
Ludgate-street
England
Kearsly