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Newspaper
Public Ledger
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jul 15, 1760
Page
4
The Crown grants William Faden license to print publish and vend The Public Ledger after paying costs for writing and compiling. It forbids reprinting the work by others under penalty. Issued at St James's December 17 1759 by command of W Pitt.
Public auction and private contract notices list ships at Plymouth and St Malo with burthen from 60 to 720 tons for sale by candle or private contract. Indented goods include French Indigo and St Domingo sugar, lignum vitae, and sugar hogsheads. Also ads seek an apprentice for drawing for Calcico Printing Manufacturers and Magdalen House election notice for an assistant to the matron. Additional items announce physician medicines preparation and minor Foote extracts at a Little Theatre.
Notice lists multiple lost found and wanted items and persons including a man wanted for driving a post chaise and tending a garden at Salifour, a deserter John Fadley from Hampshire Militia, and an elopement and various creditors, lost items, and employment notices across Portsmouth and London pages. It also notes rewards for apprehension and descriptions of persons and goods.
Ipswich Journal lists properties in Essex and Suffolk including a Freehold mansion and land at Great Baddow, two dwellings at Shottisham, a freehold messuage at Wickham Brook, nearby farm and premises at Halesworth, a draper shop in Needham Market, a house in Ipswich near Cornhill, a tavern, and a house in St Mary Ipswich. It also notes notice to Samuel Shorey and George Salmon or their heirs regarding an advantageous matter.
Notice proclaims a large farm at Rainton in Somersetshire for lettings. Named in the notice is Sarah, wife of William Stockin, of Westerleigh, Gloucestershire.
A fragmented public notice note mentions a stolen item near Grosvenor Square and a general court of a society aiding British troops abroad, their widows and orphans. The text also seeks contractors for street cleansing in St Paul, Shacwell, showing miscellaneous items in the issue.
A July 14 notice states items to be sold by candle at public sale including Cork Jackets for swimming and about 3000 pounds of Mohair Yarn and other goods. The sale is to be conducted by a rider representing a linen draper or haberdasher.
A published notice lists multiple auction items including a post chariot, a coach, farms near Watford and Barking, a freehold estate, household furniture of John Ewer, goods of Mrs Oldman deceased, stock and utensils of William Whittle the paper stainer, a copyhold estate at New Worth Middlesex, a furnished house Turnham Green, houses near Monmouth Street and Kensington Square, a haberdasher shop, a freehold house near Fetter Lane, a house and coach house at Long Ditton, an inn near London Wall and a public house, plus a recruiting party led by Capt Moses Lilly's independent company.
Two houses on Kingsdown in Bristol are reported in the Chronicle dated July 12. Details describe property status and neighborhood impact with notes from local builders and officials.
Public notice lists multiple properties including freehold and copyhold messuages and lands in Mattithall Bergh Pentney Geyton Stratton St Mary Wacet on and Norwich areas. It also advertises lettings for houses near St Michael's and Brigg's Lane Norwich farm at Thurston and mentions tythes in East Carleton and a case of elopement involving Mary Doyle. Apprentices Robert Dewy and Ambrose Culley linked to Haac Lambert of Lynn are named.
A dated notice lists several properties including a dwelling house with garden and two adjoining houses in Risherton Anger and other parcels: an inn at Wincanton Somersetshire a house near Green Croft Salisbury a house on the borders of the New Forest the Parsonage of Everly near Marlborough an genteel house and a house with garden in Southampton.
Liverpool Advertiser notices listing auctions of the cargo Nancy from Guadaloupe with about 160 casks of sugar and goods, then multiple properties including three dwelling houses near the Flashes, a surgeon's shop at Balten in the Moors, four dwelling houses near the Frothes, several messuages on old-ball-street and Tyth-barn-street, estates in Crowley Chester, a dwelling house in Warrington, and two warehouses in Prafford's Wient.
Notices announce properties including a dwelling in Heddington near Oxford Bray and Hill End Farm Warwickshire plus a house at Idlicote. creditors of Reverend Mr Davies of Chilton Berks seek settlement. a reward offered for personal estate of Matthew Heath late of Clack Wiltshire. estate administrator Geddleman deceased.
The document lists ships entering and clearing outwards from a port, naming vessels such as The San Nicholas Forde and Libertas with masters or owners like P Setterberg and Wm, indicating routes to Dieppe Cadizan Lifton Norway and related destinations. It appears as a brief port register fragment showing inward and outward movements and crew or master references.
Report from London Bridge notes high water conditions shortly after 3 a.m. and 3:05 p.m. Letters addressed to unknown recipients remain at the General Post Office in Lombard Street. Foreign entries list numerous Portuguese and continental names with merchants and officials, indicating a busy distribution of correspondence and notices.
Prices of goods at the Corn Exchange Mark-Lane include Wheat and Barley per Quarter with ranges from 248 to 16s while Rye Oats and Flour list varied shillings per sack. Stock prices show Old and New Annuities and various government securities with bonds, scrip, and bills noted.
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