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Newspaper
Public Ledger
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jun 10, 1761
Page
4
A notice states George R. Weas grants publishers permission to print abridge or republish the seven hundred fifty nine in the third party Ledger. The issuer outlines terms and acknowledges the publication rights to reprint the material.
Notice lists sales of Dr James's Fever powder and various cosmetic and medical preparations. Items include Irish beef and pork parcels, an ointment to remove facial blemishes, and several patent tonics. Also advertised are a lease remainder, employment seeks, and notices from merchants about accounts and miscellaneous articles including ships and trade routes.
Fragmentary notice stating lettings of a house and Whitnings-yard in St Johns Southwark and a capital mansion house at Tottenham, plus lost items including a steel watch chain with crystal seal and two silver watches maker George Bayley and S Bayley. Also a request for part of a house furnished within five miles of St James's and creditors of William late Earl of Yarmouth to meet.
Daily Gasether of June 9 lists items for auction from the estate of Mr Robert Nichols including household furniture with about 600 oz of wrought plate and Turkey carpets. It mentions an apprentice or turnover to a surgeon at an hospital and a patent place in the customs or public offices in Southwark.
Notice lists auctions of stock in trade by an upholsterer and cabinet-maker, old china and Japanese items, a freehold estate in Mark-Jane, a dwelling-house remainder in Bedford-street Covent Garden, household furniture, a stable yard in Drury Lane, houses in Twickenham Hitchin and St James's, a grocer shop and several public houses, plus assorted items including watches, a vellum pocket book and a small dog.
A stray OCR reads a village list of trades including journeyman apothecary, butler, usher, clerk, book-keeper, shopman in linen trade, housekeeper. Also a navy ritual wheat notice and a monthly trustees meeting for Islington Turnpike. a creditors meeting for Sir Harry Pope Blunt, Bart, deceased.
Notice lists bankruptcy sittings for William Perry estate in Deeping Fenn Lincolnshire and debts of John Knell Bloomsbury coachman, Thomas Holford Dowgate Hill dry goods dealer, William Parker Derbyshire dealer, Thomas Fielden Hundersfield clothier Leeds, plus His Majesty's Pardon and rewards for a threatening letter to George Carter in Haverhill. Other items include creditors meeting for Christopher Green Cambridge and John Dinwiddie Fareham discharged, and creditors of John Ouram Bardesley Yorkshire to meet. Addresses for Church of Scotland, Barbados and Heakets noted.
Notices of auctions and lettings for farms houses and estates across Suffolk Yorkshire York Hants Wilts Dorset Dorsetshire Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Northamptonshire Kent Hampshire Essex and Aberdeenshire with named places such as Yoxford Saxmundham Ripon Burton Leonard Newcastle upon Tyne Manningford Bohune Rockford Castle-Hill Margate Oundle Cotterstock Standon and Bowden End. Also stock market notes and ship movements with dates June 6 to June 9 and prices in old currency.
The document notes that at great expense authorities have hired several gentlemen to write and compile a work for all subjects, with a focus on those in trade and printing. It strictly forbids printing publishing and vending the work. Dated at St James's Court on December 17 under command.
Advertisement for a revised enlarged edition by Charles Leadbetter. It promises vulgar and decimal arithmetic, roots extraction, and bulgars, geometry, trigonometry, astronomy, land surveying, and 45 discourses to render practical mathematical knowledge accessible to youth and teachers. Painted for S Crowder at the Looking-Glass in Pater-row.
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