Public Ledger granted license for prints in 1759
George III grants William Faden sole printing and publishing rights for The Public Ledger after reporting that he commissioned writers to compile the work. The royal license forbids reprinting abridgments or publishing by others under penalty. Issued at St James's on December 17, 1759 during the 33rd year of the king's reign. The order was given by His Majesty's Command, WL Pitt.
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The
Public Ledger
Mpafelky
von I
George
William Faden
St.James’s
WL Pitt
Complete Index of Advertisements and Public Notices
A historical listing from The Public Ledger detailing advertisements proposals meetings and notices. It catalogs sold goods let or sold properties lost found wanted employs and miscellaneous items including letters about naval bonds and a lease counterpart with various entries and names. The dense page records want ads employment requests and public notices across multiple topics and locations.
Public Advertiser notice of stolen outfit and employment request
Notice lists missing items from a ship seizure including two and a half pence article tied to the Caernarvon burden 600 tons. It also notes an employment call for a rider to a wholesale linen or haberdashery dealer and mentions ad items from Trinity House St Nicholas Gate and a smallpox hospital intake. Continued premiums from the Society for the Encouragement of Arts Manufactures and Commerce are advertised in the paper.
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East-India Company
Chloe
Harwich
London
Roo
Cook
Cox’s Key
Caernarvon
Trinity House
St. Nicholas Gate
Society For the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce Co
Auction notices across olive oil jars and real estate
Daily Gazetteer lists multiple sales including sixty two jars of olive oil and other goods by auction. A leasehold estate with four brick houses in Apollo Court near Temple Bar is offered by auction. Also a notice invites interested persons to enter the druggist business.
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Apollo Court
Temple-bar
Descriptions of Auctions and Notices in Daily Advertiser
A July 7 issue lists auctions and notices including a freehold estate in Hackney by auction, leasehold messuages in West Smithfield, and household items. It includes a deserter notice for soldiers from the Third Regiment of Foot-guards, an elopement notice for Nicholas Harborne, and various small lots such as Irish sheeting, a pocket book, mourning ring, a Leigh Shore boat, and dress remnants.
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Marestreet
Hackney
West Smithfield
Houthold
Foot-guards
Nicholas Harborne
James Mason
Belchier
Leigh Shore
Essex
Deserted Soldier Ebening Pott Named in July Notice
Lippo's Ebening Pott from the Royal Regiment of English Fuzileers is named in a July notice as a desertion case against Daniel Benbow. The description of Pott appears and a reward is offered for his apprehension.
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Lippo
Daniel Benbow
Royal Regiment of English Fuzileers
Two New Houses and Messuage Auctioned in Dixton Monmouth
In Bristol Chronicle dated July 5, a notice announces the sale by auction of two newly built houses on Kingsdown and a messuage located in the parishes of Dixton and Monmouth. The record notes the properties are offered publicly by auction.
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Bristol
Kingsdown
Dixton
Monmouth
Property and notice items from Norfolk Suffolk listings
A ninth part of barges and wherries to Yarmouth, several deeds in Kingsfield and Pentney, a freehold in Geyton, a shop and two tenements in Stratton Saint Mary with a farm at Wacton, a Norwich house, a St James area house and shops, and public notices to creditors and debtors of Baley Barrett Bingay Bungay Edmund Wincope Norton Swan Samuel Wright and William Holley in Norfolk and Suffolk.
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Yarmouth
Orlett
Kingsfield
Suffolk
Pentney
Geyton
Stratton Saint Mary
Wacton
County of Norfolk
Samuel Wright
Norton Swan
William Holley
Shipdanit
Norfolk
Notice of Real Estate Sales in Suffolk Parishes
Notice to sell estates and tenements in Shottisham Wilburton Bealings and St Giles near St Johns Green Suffolk. Parcels include two tenements and a piece of ground plus a separate estate in Wilburton Cambria and Bealings. Auction details unreadable in fragmentary text.
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Spswich
Journal
Shottisham
Suffolk
Iwo
St.Giles
St. John’s Green
Wilburton
Cambria
Auétion
Aegethice
Bealings
Bath Notice of Furnished Houses for Letting
Bath Advertiser dated July 5 announces rental offerings listing two properties. A house in Beaufort Square Bath and a furnished house in Bath are available to let.
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Beaufort Square
Bath
Liverpool Advertiser lists multiple Liverpool auctions and notices
The July 4 issue catalogs numerous Liverpool properties and estates for sale or lease including four leasehold dwellings near Flamhes, cargoes and casks for auction at Liverpool, two warehouses and premises, several messuages on multiple streets, and a Sutton parish inheritance. Creditors notices for Daniel Abraham and Thomas Fleetwood accompany the list.
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Liverpool Advertiser
Liverpool
Plymouth
Jamaica
Scomeley
Oldhall-street
Tythbarn-street
Hanover-street
Thomas-street
Edmund-street
Frog-lane
Auttion
New Crosshall Street
Sutton
Prescot
County of Lancaster
Bridge-street
Warsington
Johnreet
Deserter Pierre La Roque Auction Notice at Meadle Bucks
Orford Journal notes premises in Meadle parish Monk's Risborough to be sold by auction. It mentions a French prisoner Pierre La Roque, from parole at Abingdon, Berks, with a reward offered for his apprehension. Also references creditors of Reverend Mr Davies of Chilton, Berks.
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Orford Journal
Meadle
Monk’s Risborough
Lease and sale notices for property in Cambridge and counties
Cambridge Journal advertises a lease of several houses in the Petty Cury Cambridge and various tenements pastures and fen lands in Rumsey Huntingdon. A freehold estate at Northborough Northampton is to be let. A grocer and chandler shop is for let at Oakham Rutland.
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Cambridge Journal
Petty Cury
Cambridge
Rumsey
Huntingdon
Northborough
Northampton
Oakham
Ships Entered and Cleared Inwards and Outwards
Ships entered inwards include The Charlotta and Ann with Jos. Munby from Petersboro and Jong Sippe Ide Tjerd from Rotterdam. Young Ranger Ja Fleming from Jamaica. Ships cleared outwards include The Lady Helena Jac Rafche bound for Ancona Town Tervere J. Dael for Bruges.
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Charlotta
Ann
Jos
Munby
Petersbro
Jong Sippe
Ide Tjerd
Rotterdam
Young Ranger
Ja. Fleming
Jamaica
Lady Helena
Jac. Rafche
Ancona
Tervere
J. Dael
Bruges
Prices of Goods and Financial Bills at Cork Excise
Record shows itemized lists of grain prices at Mark Lane Cork Excise including Wheat and Barley per quarter, Finest Flour and Malt rates, various seeds, hops and seed costs. Also lists bank stock, annuities, life annuities, lottery tickets, and government securities with per cent values and dates from 1726 to 1760.
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Cork
Mark-Lane
West Country
India
Consol
Ditto
Mullion Bank
Royal Assurance London
Dantzick
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St. Paul's Church-Yard
Public Lever
Candle
Will
N. M
Scarborough
Lowestoft
Ardley
Audthon
Chelmsford
Thurston
St. Helen’s Churchyard
Ipswich
Halesworth
Bury St. Edmund’s St. Fe
Whitton
Sig Pauloccio Hetty Peed
Eig
Herm Magisfra
Thomas Handford
Fried
John Flaxen
Jean En Malniekter
James Broadway
William Annane
Simon Fischer
al Hem Kiffellig
Joseph Kingsington
Joseph Zonacio Perres Zagarreu
Juan de la Alguera
Elias
Pierre Comerlandi
Bourguen
Pedro Belatra
de Razily
Yiirain
Simon de Sante
F. de Newhof
William Gosling- Ambrose Williams
Jemima Price
Grave
Boyle M. Verlite
Richard Reed
Roger Drewett
Richard ‘Chandler
Thomas Bentley
Hofis Mons
Thomas Soudre
Cesar Parr
Catherine Lyons
John‘Kirkpatrick
Geg. Duncan
Whithall
London Bridge
Public Advertiser
Daily Gazetteer
Daily Anvertiser
Starwich Wercury
Bath Advertiser
Daniel Abraham
Manchester
Thomas Fleetwood
Sadler
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