Printing Licence Granted to William Faden for The Public Ledger
In a royal licence dated December seventeen seventeen fifty nine at St James's, William Faden is granted fourteen years exclusive printing and vending rights for The Public Ledger. The grant forbids reprints or imports beyond the seas without consent, and designates his heirs and assigns to enforce obedience.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Faden
Bondon
Public Ledger
St. James’s
W. Pitt
Public Ledger notices and sale items in a London compilation
A consolidated notice from Public Ledger lists items published across Daily, Evening, and Weekly papers. It includes sales of ships Pluto and Windsor cargo Indigo, a near house in New Bond Street for sale, a 2001 at 5 percent investment, Navy yard mud dragging contracts, and letters from Lien Chi Ahangi to Fum Hoam with political musings, plus a retirement letter and a bystander note on political schemes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Windsor
New Bond Street
Navy
Deptford
Thomas Lloyd Stevenson
Lien Chi Ahangi
Fum Hoam
Auction Notice for John Melton Callico Printer Stock
Public Advertiser lists items including a steel mounted fowling piece, three ground near Leicester Fields, a silver watch by William Frodsham, a silver watch by Edmund Joyce, a silver table spoon with a cypher, and various notices of meetings and advantages for individuals such as Harrow educated gentlemen and Thomas Windle, with terse descriptions typical of a 19th century auction and notices page.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Melton
Callico
Turvey
Liecester Fields
William Frodsham
Edmund Joyce
Harrow School
Society For the Encouragement of Arts and Manufactures
Thomas Windle
Journeymen Shoemakers And A Malt Distiller Letter
Daily Gazetteer notes include a listing of journeymen shoemakers, an anniversary meeting notice by the governors of the Small Pox Hospital, and a letter signed Brutus warning against dram drinking aimed at a malt distiller.
An Auction and Notice Listing Items For Let And Sale
A long notices page lists annuities, household goods, farms, houses in London and Surrey, trades and apprenticeships, public houses, lost items, rewards, bankrupts, employment wanted and offered, ships offices and offices to let, along with various auctions and notices to engage for rebuilding works, desertees and robberies. It includes a call for a public meeting by the Gospel Society, and notices of rewards for a highway robbery suspect and for a horse hired at Canterbury.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary
Joseph Hill
Edward Fitzgerald
Richard Pratt
Henry Parkins
John Hammond
King Street
Cox
Worcester
Chambers
Temple
St. James’s
West Indies
Society of Journeymen Taylors
Dock Head
Bermondsey
Lambath Marth
Canterbury
Society For the Propagation of the Gospel
Foreign Parts
Richard Sharpe
Earl of Exeter
County of
Rutland
General Post Office
Portsmouth
Hugh Ross
Queen Hithe
Garland Britten
Old Swan Lane
Edward Cofter
Thames Street
John Thomas
St. George's
Hanover Square
Taylor
Elmdon
Warwickshire
Overton
Hampshire
James Haywood
36Th Regiment of Foots
Alfo Francois Delacroix
Pierre Raymond
Penrith
Excise
Elizabeth Meredith
Wrexham
Indecent Advertisements Targeted by Press Reform
A historic notice condemns indecent advertisements as a nuisance and disgrace. It pledges to exclude immoral content to protect readers and avoid provoking blushes, ensuring families can still access essential news without inappropriate material.
Also Mentioned on This Page
Public Advertiser
Daily Advertiser
Genoa
Camberwell
Venge
Jane Cook
Bethnall Green
Parish Street
Southwark
Saffron Hill
Essex
Englefield Green
Surrey
London
Bunhill Row
Clerkenwell
London Gazette
William Daniel
Wapping
James Jagger
St. Margaret
Westminter
Garrard Jacob
Eye
Suffolk
Dealer
Chapman
Thomas Ingram
Westbury
Salop
Thomas and
Ralph Fenwick
Gamaliel Cowdery
St. George Southwark
London Chronicle
Benevolus
Desert Islands
Portia
General Evening Post
Yarmouth
Sally
Compton
Chesterfield
Derbyshire
Worcester Journal
Ludlow
Charlton
Worcestershire
New House
Horn Bridge
Foundling Hospital
Edward Stephens
London Evening Post
Belett
Messuage
Chesham Bose
Buckinghamshire
Whitehall Even
Post
Derby Mercury
Bath of
Matlock
Littleover-Hall
Derby
India
Consol
Ditto
Royal Assurance
Dantzick
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