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Newspaper
Public Ledger
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jul 24, 1760
Page
4
In a royal grant at St James's the crown issues a licence to William Faden for sole printing publishing and reading the Public Ledger. The document notes the expense incurred and restricts opposition by peril with the date given under the thirty third year of the reign.
An index of advertisements, proposals, schemes, and amusements from the Dath Evening and Weekly Papers. Items include employment wanted, apprenticeships, property lettings, loans, recoveries, and ship movements. Notable entries reference creditors, divers, trades, elopements, and a robbery reward near Spital-Fields Market.
Notice that cargo from Le Paix Couronne and other vessels in London and Portsmouth will be sold by Candle 2 to 7. Items include 110 tons brigantine Martha, 348 bars iron, sundry tea coffee pepper borax sago, Guadaloupe sugar, and other goods. Navy commissioners will treat for plantation tar pitch turpentine oil and tallow for delivery to Deptford stores. Also a 57th Chinese letter from Lien Chi Ahangi to Hingpo at Terki about escape from slavery and future life directions.
A notice in the Public Advertiser dated July 23 offers a reward for apprehending a girl named Jane described by appearance from the Master’s House. It also announces a Quarterly General Court of the Lock Hospital near Hyde Park Corner.
Notice states the stock in trade of Thomas Thackwell linen draper is to be sold by Candle 2 John Child, apprentice to Thomas Brock, as part of dissolution of business. Final sale action announced for the Stockin Trade ownership changes.
A long catalog of auctions and lost or wanted items including real estate in Wandworth Surrey and Lewes Sussex, household furniture, a farm near Edgeware Middlesex, a tavern near Cripplegate, apothecary shop 40 miles from London, and various personal items such as a diamond ring watch case black dogs and a bay gelding. Also listed are courses of lectures and a French teacher.
A July 19 notice enumerates multiple properties and rights for sale or lease across Durham Northumberland and Westmorland counties. Items include freehold estates in Helmodon Row and Newhall, copyhold keys in Sunderland, leasehold at Greatham, hundreds of acres of land, dwellings in Moorhouses, a messuage in Moorhouses, a dwelling in the Close Newcastle, corn tythes, a house and malting at Framwellgate, a dwelling with shop in Durham, plus a miscellaneous entry. Also notices John Wilson of Gateshead tobacconist gives notice to creditors.
Meweattle Courant lists four notices. A faded House in Old Elvet Dunham is referenced. Heaton Windmill appears. Creditors of John Smith of Barnard Castle Durham, a Wool Comber, who have not accepted composition, receive notice. Creditors and Debtors of Mr John Coulson, late of Newcastle upon Tyne Inn keeper, deceased, are notified.
The notice details several properties including fee-simple of an Overland at Aughton Gifford in Durham, a dwelling house and other premises in Devon, a capital messuage and lands in Devon, a 40 ton sloop post-boy at Plymouth, six casks of old iron and goods at Plymouth, and a messauge with appurtenances at Cleyhanger Devonshire and Raddington Somerset.
Glocester Journal item lists properties including inns in Tewkesbury Malmesbury and Carmarthen, multiple messuages lands tenements in Salop Glocester and Radnor, dwellings at Kingstanley and Littleworth, an inn at Carmarthen, an apprentice named Ann Walker to George Athbee, a manager for a landed estate, and a £1000 loan secured on tolls in Abergavenny district Monmouthshire.
Bath Journal reports leasehold estate at 1141 yearly rent and several properties in Bath and Wiltshire including a messuage in Market Place and new houses in Holloway Avon Street and Cook Lane with a Garrdon estate. It notes that someone has eloped and lists Thomas Pierce apprentice to Gregory Atwood and several journeymen tilers in Bath.
Notice is given that there are to be SGLD listing numerous properties including dwellings farms and land in Aldridge Steelhay Moseley Rowington Bromsgrove Wolverhampton Brewood Coleshill Uttoxeter and near Shrewsbury plus inns and a large house with warehouses In addition items state eloped and deserted and rewards offered for recapturing two men a Workhouse manager and a Birmingham Braziers shopman were named.
A mixed notice listing numerous addressees under foreign and inland offices including Al Sig Paaloccie Mr John Lock Mr Thomas Clerk and others. It also records high water times at London Bridge and a dense list of financial instruments with prices such as Bank Stock India Ditto Old and New Annuities Consols and Exchequer Bills alongside lottery and life annuities.
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