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Newspaper
Public Ledger
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jul 31, 1761
Page
4
The document records George R Vy p HT ue 2 EAS treky and Wilkow Fades receiving royal licence to print publish and vend The Public Ledger. It prohibits others from reprinting abridging or publishing the work under penalty. Dated St James's December 17 1759.
A long listing from the Public Ledger shows notices and ads including ships to be sold by candle, cargoes and goods from Jamaica, vacancies and wanted help, ships and navy tenders, warehousing and landing at Rotherhithe, a convoy for Gibraltar, and notices of lost tickets, lettings, and various household items. The section includes a casualty of the coronation plate data and a public notice about a lottery. It presents multiple merchant, shipping, and employment items with street and city references, mainly London.
Notice records a lost sum of 231 guineas or more between Leicester and Rufford Inn and mentions a miscellaneous article from the newspaper about a new comedy titled The Witches or Harlequin's Mouth opened taken from an unspecified source.
Notice is given that there are to be sold in several parcels or as whole lots including a barn and land in Forsbrooke Dilhorne, a farm in Little Bromwich, a capital messuage and lands in Great Chell, a freehold estate in Hales Owen, a messuage with out-buildings in Belbroughton, a messuage and lands at Draycot in the Clay with pasture rights in Needwood Forest, a mansion-house and farm in Yardley, land in Trentham, a large oak coppice near Llanidloes, an house in Bear Street, Lichfield, an inn in Wolverhampton, and an inn in Bridgenorth.
July 27 notices itemize multiple freehold properties for sale or disposition in Priors Marion and Morton Pinkney Warwickshire and Northamptonshire. Listings include several messuages mansions an inn and a house with homestead in Sow Much Park Street Swan Lane and High Street Daventry.
Public roup notices itemize two dwelling houses in Thurso, a land tenement in Haddington, the Farm of Grange myre near Kinghorn, and the Farm and Lands of Muirtown in Berwick county. Names and exact locations listed for upcoming sales.
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