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Newspaper
Public Ledger
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jul 19, 1760
Page
4
The Crown grants William Faden a licence for sole printing and publishing of The Public Ledger. It forbids reprinting or abridging by others. Recorded at St James's on December 17, 1759 during the 33rd year of reign.
A historical catalog lists notices and advertisements from Daily Evening and Weekly papers. It includes sales of goods such as Bologna hemp and rum, lost and found items, employment wants, ships and damaged hemp sales, debts and creditors, and various public notices from authorities and merchants across London.
Notices announce lettings of city lands by auction for sixty one year leases Hampstead burglary at two o clock. A reward offered for the capture of the house robber. Also mentions a missing Garnet Necklace misplaced jewelry and an elopement of William King from Thomas King. A poor widow seeks relief and a notice about a stopped cloth shirt marked A J.
A miscellaneous item in the Daily Gazetteer dated July 18 notes a distressed family seeking relief. The fragment mentions Madeira wine and pipes of Oporto wine and requests charitable assistance. The short notice highlights a plea for aid from a hardship-stricken household.
Notices list items to be sold or let including two leasehold messuages near Grosvenor Square a workshop lease with stock and fixtures at William Whittle’s paper stainer shop and several houses and shops in London areas such as Kensington Square Elmstead Kent and Bushy Park Also items include an apothecary shop a public house and various personal property acquisitions and elopement notice
Notice issued July 18 describes Richard Tooley from the 76th Regiment of Foot as deserted. His person is described and a reward is offered for his apprehension.
Notice lists multiple property sales including farms near Morton and Aughton, dwellings at Craikhill and High Oufe gate, inns at South Cave and Pocklington Common, two closes at Sykehouse, a meadow or pasture ground, and a freehold estate at Aughton. Also referenced are a militiaman from Lord Viscount Downe's Battalion and a boarding school advert seeking a young ladies’ teacher, plus road trustees from Wakefield to Redhouse announcing an intention related to roads.
The Chester Courant lists multiple inheritance estates and properties for sale or consideration. Items include estates in Crowley Chester Boden Nantwich Denbigh Weston Rhyn and the Demesne of Vaynol near Bangor, plus notice to creditors and debtors of Robert Davies Mercer deceased.
Notices announce a Freehold Estate at Chedleton in Stafford and a marriage within Athton Mackerfield Lancaster. Also a deserter from the Dragoon Guards William Stringer alias Singer alias Taylor. Creditors of George Burgess shopkeeper Manchester Lancaster receive notice. Turnpike Trustees of Halifax Burnley Littleborough plan to borrow Money on tolls.
Stamford Mercury notes a public house in Market Deeping Lincolnshire to be sold by auction. It also seeks a person to oversee the mills and water works for the town of King's Lynn Norfolk.
Notice lists multiple listings including a copyhold estate at Otley to be sold, a brick house at Bonterra to be let, and a surgeon's mate needed for a ship sailing from Liverpool to Angola and the West Indies. Also announces a trustees meeting from Leeds to Halifax to let tolls.
Notice announces sale by voluntary auction of the Manor House Office Houses Gardens and Lands of Muchalis in the Shire of Mearns and the Lands and Barony of Ednam. Details unspecified due to damaged text.
A catalog listing various publications and pamphlets including Pieces of ancient Poetry, a Letter from a Methodist Preacher to Laurence Sterne, an Essay on impressing seamen, Christ's Call to the Rising Generation, Hymns by Hart, Emmendationes in Suidam, The Law of Nations by de Vattel, and Lives and Trials of Royal Treason and Martyrs, with prices in pence.
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Fragmented list shows letters addressed to numerous individuals labeled as unknowns within an Inland Office and Foreign Office section. The text also records London stock prices, bank annuities, and government bonds with dates and valuations, along with a note on high water at London Bridge and morning and evening timings.
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