Public Ledger Licence Granted for The Public Ledger 1759
The document announces William Faden of London receiving royal licence to print publish and read The Public Ledger for fourteen years. It forbids reprinting abridging or distributing the work beyond seas without consent. Notice also lists advertisements listings and miscellany from the Public Ledger including auctions and theatre notices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George. R
William
William Faden
A & Company
St. James’s
Public Advertiser notices from Feb twenty third
Notice entries announce items for let near Leatherhead and Basingstoke a fat black and white dog lost a silver watch and chain a buff Alpaca waistcoat black silk hose and white silks stolen a Royal Regiment deserter Joseph Joyce sought for reward for apprehension missing drowned information sought annual meeting orphan charity notices and a street robbery reward in Hanover Square area
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Betty
Leatherhead
Basingstoke
Rainsford
F. Joseph Joyce
Royal Regiment of Ery
David Mason
St. George
Hanover Square
Auction and Lost Goods Notice from 18th Century Fleet Street
A dense listing in old Fleet Street notices advertises auctions for houses and stock in trade, lost items like bank notes and jewelry, and wanted employment with multiple labor and servant roles. It catalogs properties near Soho Square and Cheapside, plus various public and court notices, bankrupts, and creditors.
Letter Topics Range From Ecclesiastical Terms To Currency
The London Chronicle issue lists multiple letters and discussions including observations on evactions and the word sciences in the New Testament, a defense of English spoken by British and Irish children, notes on England and France silver coins, and a debate on Canada’s restoration to France at a general peace, with additional remarks on a clergyman’s letter.
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Eboracensis
Great Britain
Ireland
England
France
J. M
Canada
N. N
London Chronicle
Murder Letter Prompts Local Inquiry in Hampshire
A fragment notes a historical letter signed Plain Truth regarding murder, about a messuage and two water grist mills near Andover in Southampton county, as printed in the paper. The item hints at a county inquiry triggered by the letter's subject matter.
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Andover
Southampton
Whitehall Post Names Fugitives From St Milica Case
February 23 report lists William Tapner Robert Fox Jonas Gout John Nickland and John Sherwoo Reynolds as persons described and offers rewards for apprehending them in connection with the St Milica matter.
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William Tapner
Robert Fox
Jonas Gout
John Nickland
John Sherwoo Reynolds
St Milica
Property to Let and Estates Listed in Chester Notice
Notice lists multiple freehold estates in Montgomery Denbigh Flintshire Shrewsbury and Chester area to be sold or let including farms houses and tenements. Includes Rhyd Flint notice of sale and a house in Foregate street Chester with a note elopement and creditors notice to Northwich.
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Rhyd
Ain
Flint
Knutsford
Nfere
County of Chester
Foregate
Chester
Sarah
Randle Brooke
Royal Watch
Wiclitia
Enorthwich
Derby Auction Notice of Properties in Norton and Derby
Auction notice listing several lots in Derby including two messuages and a farm at Norton. Details appear fragmented but indicate sale by auction with various properties and locations mentioned. The readable items reference Derby and Norton estates, with multiple owners or tenants.
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otten-Koy
Ahold
Notice of Property Sales and Miscellaneous Ads
Notice announces sale of estates and tenements in Worcester areas Great Hampton Birch Morton and St. John parish. It lists a freehold messuage with garden in Birch Morton and multiple properties in Worcester including Eyre Park and Ham Bridge rebuilding bids. Also notes debtors to John Bugrow deceased and a reward for information on two felled fir trees in Eyre Park.
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London Bridge
Auttion
Shepperton
James Solomon
Aunction Ax
East-Ham Marth
Victualling Office
Torbay
Ruffin Company
St. Pierre
Christopher Higgins
Loynton
Staffordshire
Money Scrivener
George Langstaff
Garrick Hill
John Grace the Younger
St. John
Worcester
Birch
Morton
John “Bugrow
Eyre Park
Ham Bridge
Worcestershire
Solos for German Flute and Harpsichord excerpted works
A nineteenth century notice outlines twelve new solo pieces for German flute and harpsichord, references a French tutor and a Schoolmaster’s Assistant, and notes publication details and prices. It discusses assembling papers in order as they arrive and promises to publish what fits the readers’ needs, avoiding repetition.
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Ran
French
Val. Ae
J. Welsh
Macy
Also Mentioned on This Page
Public Ledger
St. Domingo
Aquileia
Drury Lane Theatre
Public Advertiser
Daily Gazetteer
Fleet Street
Salisbury Court
Society For the Reformation of Manners
Daily Advertiser
Soho Square
Lincoln’s Inn
Knight-Rider-Street
Lawrence-lane Cheapside
Spittlefields Square
Cheapside
Haberdashery and Millinery
Glass and Stone Way
Edward’ Lyttleton
Philip Stevens
East India Company
Temple
Royal Exchange
a.Haberdasher
Wm. Spradbrough
William Moor
Bernard Thodee
Edmund Jagg
the Victualling Office
Brazen Nose College Society
St. George Hanover Square
Thomas Merrick
St. Saviour
Southwark
Wharfinger
James Duff
Matter Taylors
London Gazette
Commissioners of the Treasury
High Seas
Middlesex
Thomas Dickenson
Liverpool
William Welfitt
Kingston Upon Hull
John Pitman
Bristol
London
Gustavus Hannius
Samuel
Johnston Read
Leeds
Yorkshire
Richard, Thomas
Caleb Clough
Sarah Ratcliffe
Manchester
Nicholas Butler
High Holbourn
Joseph Jaques
Chippenham
Wilts
William Seddon
Breadstreet Hill
Threadman
Samuel Butler
Snow Hill
Sadler's Ironmonger
London Evening Post
Whitechapel
John Pennington
Whitehall Even
Chester Courant
Derby
Worcester Journal
Hampton
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