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Newspaper
Public Ledger
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jan 26, 1760
Page
2
The crown grants William Faden, executors and assigns, a fourteen year licence to print publish and vend the Public Ledger, forbidding reprints or imports beyond the seas without consent. Notices to Master Warelay and Company of Stationers to ensure obedience. Court at St James's December 17 1759.
A dated notice lists ship Elizabeth cargo for sale by auction, Wind for a French Prize, Snow Success and Nettleton ships with cargoes, Lost items and wanted positions at the Custom House Keys, a shop broken open in Cockspur Street, and various real estate and employment notices including a Freehold in Leadenhall Street and house rentals near Tower Hill, with multiple public announcements and wanted ads.
Notice of a quarterly general Board of Trustees for Werminster Infirmary. The issue includes a letter from Anglofaxe proposing exchanging French prisoners for English slaves in Morocco, plus letters on cures for cramp and goat, a distillery note, wills, and a depiction of bailiffs and constables. It also features a translation of the convention between the Kings of Great Britain and Prussia.
A York Courant item lists various land parcels and properties in Yorkshire including a Freehold Estate at Bolton upon Derne a Lead Mine near Hornby a washed house at Great Smeaton and a house and garden near York Also noted are debts creditors and debtors notices for Raven Noble of Gainsborough John Moody of Thornkey and Robert Baker of Wilton plus a partnership insolvency Samuel Stabler and Benjamin Barstow and a forthcoming main of cocks at Leeds A suspect fugitive John Rhodes is sought with reward offered and several mortgage notices across Durham and Yorkshires towns.
Notice lists estates including Rhyd in Flinthire, Norbury and Hardwick in Salop, two tenements in Caerwys, a Pen-y-brin house in Denbighthire, a Freehold in Wrexham, and fugitives William Jones and Henry Foster from Col Crawford's Royal Volunteers with a reward. Also mentions a chest of cotton from Chester Waggon, Kefen house near Wrexham, Chester Infirmary general board, and Deputy Lieutenants meeting in Denbighshire.
Advertisements list several properties and items for auction or sale including an inn at Stockport Cheshire an organ for Bolton and another near Manchester a freehold dwelling in Manchester tenement at Oldham and an inn in Rochdale plus multiple Lincolnshire and Leeds properties. Also notices of elopement hunting forbearance and a turnpike meeting in Leek along with debts and creditors notices in Manchester and Leeds areas.
A fragment from the Edinburgh Courant outlines notices of lands and inn for sale or lease in Scotland with list of debts and a long catalog of books and travels. It also includes a policy note on indecent advertisements and the paper’s aim to present material from regional papers in order.
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