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Newspaper
Public Ledger
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jul 21, 1760
Page
4
A historic notice compiles an index of adverts from Daily Evening and Weekly papers. It lists stolen items, employment wantads, property requests, public notices, dividends, and upcoming sales from various city parishes and figures, with addresses and names where readable.
Public notice announces sale actions on cargo and ship interests including the Bombay Castle with 600 tons burden, 550 puncheons of rum, and 167 bales of white Bologna garden hemp. It references payment of a call of 18 per cent and mentions the pamphlet The Voice of Peace by Philanthropy Candid, Esq., plus extracts from Lanpola Inn Walks and reflections.
The July 19 issue announces the sale of the Brigantine Experience and a ground floor room to let near the Royal Exchange. Notices call for a wholesale linen draper rider, excise parcel sales of condemned goods, and a reward for recovering stolen hams. Also reports on society receipts and debts after the St Clement’s Coffee House estate.
Notice states three types of pipes and Madeira wine are to be sold. It also indicates a tobacconist shop at the Freedom area is to be leased or let.
Daily Anvertiser details auctions of various items including jackets, horses and carriages, wigs, a dwelling house with workshop, leasehold houses with slaughterhouses, furniture warehousing near Queen Street, multiple garden plots, public houses in Hoxton and Kingston, and an elopement, a lost item list, a bankruptcy notice, a sapphire watch, and a silver wage. The list reflects broad sale and legal notices typical of the period.
Notices list bankruptcies including Richard James of Falmouth and Matthew Smith of Fhetford with meetings of creditors. Estates advertised to be sold or decreed: Fullwell Simonsides in Durham, a farm in Clee Staunton Salop, a Freehold Messuage in Whittingham Lancaster. Also mentions the Thames ship’s crew notice and dividend declarations for Richard Hargreaves and William Coombe, with other creditor actions and renderings.
London Chronicle reports a sale by Auction of a brick house and land in Southampton county. The notice lists Ebe debtors to John Armstrong of Quadle Northampton as bankrupt and subject to the sale.
General opening notes in Salop county listings seek buyers for three manors near Lon and a rectory valued at about 450 pounds yearly. Notices include a dark brown ce ding stolen or strayed, a midwifery course by Dr Harvie, Bristol Bridge plans and estimates, and creditors of Edward Edwards of Aylesbury.
Notice announces the anniversary gatherings of the Gentlemen Clergy and Freeholders of Oxford County. It references Lord Weermaai and Sir James Dashwoad and notes the event date in July. The brief item lists participants and sponsors for the civic assembly.
A notice from Otterden Kent seeks a clergyman to supply a curacy and a youth to be placed in a profitable buying and selling business. Also a South Sea Company notice announces a General Court to declare a dividend on capital stock for the half year ending the 5th instant.
Notice announces sale of three properties a Freehold Farm at Cheddleton and two other Freeholds in Staffordshire Waterfall and Heage Derbyshire. It also advertises a cleric position to supply a curacy at a church in the area.
Notice announces sale by auction of Pwo Farm at Martley Worcestershire and an estate near Matyena Hilly in Worcester County. Items listed include several loomis, a large press with iron screw, and other fittings. Auctioneer and exact terms not provided in readable text.
The list records ships entering inward including the N. S. de Guiane and the Anth. Joze from Loudén Hope, and the Mariana Maria from Offend sone Cornelis. outward clearances include The Unity bound for Norway and Lady Elizabeth for Amsterdam with names like J Robinson and Corn Meinharts.
A fragmentary foreign office notice lists many addressees and names, including Mont, Mayer Haunfitz, Solander, Mendez, Broadway, Kiffell, Zotacio, De la Alcuera, and several merchants. The text also notes a London high water incident at London Bridge and references various financial instruments and bank items such as Annuities and Exchequer Bills.
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