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Newspaper

Public Ledger

Location

London, Middlesex, United Kingdom

Date

Dec 26, 1761

Page

4

Auction notices and a curious lottery tale in one page

The document lists auctions for real estate and goods including a mansion, houses, ships, and furniture in various counties. It also contains a long satirical narrative about a lottery’s failed promises, detailing how different wishful winners like Wilkins Jones Wildgoose Humphry Oldcattle Jemmy Lister Captain MacMullen and others react to the windfall and its consequences.

Luton Ferrybridge Yorkshire Auétion Howfkar Waitby Scarborough Colvi Pateley-bridge Car Rotheram Ulley Hull Stockwith Stockeld Park West Riding of Ebrick Wheldrake Ryther Cawood Chickenly Offet Burrowby Mickley Aughton East Riding of Doncaster Frickley Sutton Upon the Forest Severa Marham Yorkshires Stapleton Cridlind Stubbs Hazard Berty Joseph Wilkins Thames Street St. James’s Hamstead Squire Wilkins Cheshire John Jones Ludlow Salop Chapman Corporation Whittington Fakn Fones Fabn Fones London Hazard’s Beitow’s Brma Mr. Jones Hart Mrs. Jones Milliener Mantua-maker Jonathan Wildgoose Cheapside Silk Mercer Humphry Oldcattle Sir Humphry Jemmy Lister MacMullen Arthur Counofeur

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