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Newspaper
Public Ledger
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jul 16, 1761
Page
5
The page lists numerous auction and sale items including ships and cargoes by candle light, real estate to be let or sold, manors and farms in Devon, Somerset, Cornwall, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire, and various miscellaneous goods and notices. It also includes employment ads, creditors notices, and stock prices with daily exchange rates and market data.
Notice lists wanted and for sale items including a warehouseman skilled in foundry and iron trade, a Haymarket room near Covent Garden, a large room suitable for accommodations, and apartments for a public house. Also offered are barrels of old beer a portion of lease at Mr John Peers house and a quantity of woollen crepe goods.
The Tatty Advertiser lists auctions of the estate of Jon Smart, deceased, including household furniture, apparel, linen, china, books, and more. Freehold houses near Temple Bar and in Covent Garden are offered, along with shops, lodgings, a tobacconist, coach-house, and warehouse properties. A variety of personal items such as a watch maker's frame, snuff box, and a Newfoundland dog are also catalogued, with yearly income noted for one property.
Notice lists 10 parcels at Hails Wood Glocestershire including oak trees and timber, a house and seven lands at Lyford Bails in Glocestershire, a farm in Olverton, a farm in Cowtey, several tenements in Cowley and Cam, an estate in Lyons Hall Hertfordshire, and four to tenements with a tan yard and three acres of orah York.
A historic notice lists properties for sale by auction or parcel in Leicester city market place and Lofeby lane, including a copyhold messuage, a freehold messuage in Earlshilton, a farm-house at Willoughby Waterless, other premises, and two houses near All Saints Church Leicester.
Public roup notices in Kinross and Stirling shires describe openings of lands in Bonnyside Bonnywater and associated rights. The summaries reference the house and inclosures of Citesh plus lands of Bonnyside and Bonnywater with rights of superiority in nearby shires.
Records list ships entering and clearing ports on July 15. Names include Boffelen C. M. Minneloft from Osten and Johanne Elli Neskill bound for Norway. Other vessels listed are St. George Jos. Davis to Spain Tyger Wim Stodart to Africa and N. S. del Rosario, St. Augustine, St. Croix, J Zubtera to Genoa, and Esther Mart Blanck to Dantzick.
A pamphlet promotes Honey Balsam as a universal remedy for coughs, asthma, hoarseness, and lung congestion. The preparation is described as converting water into a milklike beverage and soothing consumption symptoms. Sold in bottles at Baldwin and Jackson bookshops with a Beeswax label and directions.
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