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Newspaper
Public Ledger
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jul 08, 1761
Page
4
George Ayu Ereas presents that William Faden wrote the Public Ledger at great cost. We grant licence for printing publishing and vending the work and forbid reprint abridgment or publication by others under penalty. Issued at St James's December 17 1759 by W Pitt for His Majesty.
Public Leger compiles notices from all papers listing auctions and goods from French prizes, ship cargoes, salaries for cooks and housemaids, and jobWant ads. Also covers bankrupts, dividends, certificates, and creditors meetings with names and locations across towns and parishes.
A jumble of auction and employment notices listings and notices from the Public Advertiser and Daily Telegraph style publications. Items include ships, silks, stock in trade of a woollen-draper, several houses for let or sale, clerical and shop employments, leases, and many auction items from a post-channel to bank notes and valuable personal effects all to be auctioned or sold by candle or at auction. The notices request a clerk and a foreman while detailing items for sale or letting across various streets and locations, with further miscellaneous properties and property rights offered or sought.
The page lists multiple property auctions and sales across Worcestershire and nearby counties, including farms, cottages, and freehold mesne houses. Items cover Littleport in the Ife ey, Lang ford Cotten-Set Cambridgeshire, and Farmlands in Herefordshire Warwickshire and Bedfordshire. It also notes teaching posts, trades, and prize money payments related to the Hornet Privaccer of London.
Public voluntary roup notices published for Caledonia SSscccurp outline sales of lands including the Lands of Welter Feddals in the Shire of Perth and a large convenient house in Leith. Details specify locations and dates for proceedings.
On July 6 ships arrived or departed with crews and captains listed. Martha under captain Tho Gray from Rotterdam Friendship. M Roeland from Ostend Appleton. Wim Preston from Guadaloupe. Vulture captained by Alex Clark from Portugal. Two Brothers with Peter Smith Emanuel Fred Holst and St John led by Ellis Niefkill from Norway. Vulture under Tho Dalton from Oporta. Silver Eel with Jan Fjerks from Friezland.
Letters from Friday show stock prices on Tuesday July 7 with bank shares, India, South Sea, Queensland Annam, New Annuities, Exchequer Bills and long annuities. Values include Bank An 87% and 86 in 3 J Confo, Ditto India An 834, 3 Bank An 1756 and 1760, Exchequer Bills 178.2, and Lottery tickets 1764.
The list covers London Amsterdam Rotterdam Antwerp and other hubs with coin and bar gold prices, pork and fish, and rates for shipments to Cadiz Madrid Bilboa Leghorn and Geneva. It notes high water times at London Bridge and daily market entries for Lisbon Mexico and Ireland with various denominations and quantities.
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