Royal licence granted for The Public Ledger 1759
The Crown grants William Faden a fourteen year sole printing and publishing licence for The Public Ledger. Import, reprint, or distribute copies beyond seas is forbidden without consent. Obedience to the Stationers Company and royal will is required under penalty. Dated St James’s December 17, 1759 in the 33rd year of the reign.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Public Ledger
George R
William Faden
London
Willim Bader
St.James’s
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Public Advertisements and Notices in London Bookseller Listings
A broad compilation from Daily Advertiser and Newcastle Courant style notices listing items for sale to let and hire such as public houses houses in London Bermondsey and elsewhere household goods ships wares and livestock plus jobs wanted and found notices including a parcel of diverse advertisements ranging from artisans to oaths and legal notices with commentary on filtering indecent ads and public notice policy.
Public Ledger Letters on Fast Day and Libels
A Miscellaneous Articles section publishes a Cosmopolite letter remarking on the fast day proclaimed by the States General, with observations on Otho’s letter from the Public Ledger dated the 19th Instant. It also includes Lilburn Zenger’s view on libels and jury power, and a Brussels Gazette author Mother Maubert’s letter to a friend in England.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Perrott
States General
Otho
Lilburn Zenger
Mother Maubert
Brussells
England
Two well built houses and a few notices in Bunhill Row
Public Advertiser notes two new houses in Bunhill Row and a genteel house in Abingdon Street with an estate valued within twenty miles of London. It also mentions four silver spoons with a Latin motto, rewards offered by Hampstead inhabitants for robberies, and letters on malt distilleries and an elliptical relay with remarks on its disadvantages.
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Salisbury
Bermond&y
Surrey
Houshold Furniture, &c
Harper
Upper Brook Street
Exchange
Barnet
Hertfordshire
King's
London
Ak Zs
Quanto
Czear
Lee
Chelsea
Portsmouth
Durham
Newcastle
Kent
Surry
Essex
Middlesex
Hoyman
Otterham Key
William Seymour
Henry Hawiey
Thomas Sowley
Feefey
Sarah Hathaway
Commissioners
Navy
Lownde
William Paris
William and
Elizabeth
North Shields
George Bolam
Shilford
Northumberland
Alemouth
Hunwick
Bihop
Auckland
Dewley
Newcastle Upon Tyne
Lintzgreen
Tanfield
Pilgrim-street
Westgate-street
Alexander Davidson
Peterhead
Burroughbridge
Monsieur Dingerart
Andrew le Salle
Mole
Buffon
Brampton
Cumberland
James Vernon
Beamith
Bunhill Row
Abingdon -Street
Strand
Hampstead
Corregio
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Daily Advertiser
Lloyd's Evening Post
C. B
Jack Sprightly
J Copywell
Newcastle Journal
Quebec
Newlands
County of
Newcastle Courant
Black Heddon
South Choppington
Sandhill
William Blenkinsop
William Wouldhave
Alice Thompson
William
Avis
John Ovington
Gillygate
Sherborne
John Luckett
Exeter
Slade Downs
Devonshire
Higher Coombe
Lower Coombe
Bourn, &c
King
Honiton
Roferrow
Sayers
Tregolland
Dorsetshire
Somerietshire
Devonire
Samuel Payne
Welton
Bampfield
Somerset
Philip Harwood
Down Thomas
Devoin
Ax Miner
Trustees of
Tiverton Taraghe Ae
Gloucester Journal
Southgate Street
Gloucester
County of Carmarthen, Co
Compton Farm
Keven Glan
Montomery
Tewkesbury
Hereford
Iabel Taylor
Thomas Harbert
Dny
Brecknockshire Society
Bath Journal
Somerigtshire
Westgate Street
Bath
Cuilém
Wiltshire
Tobelett
Milton
Welles
Frome
Somersetshire
Public Advertiser
Daily Gazetteer
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