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Newspaper
Public Ledger
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jun 19, 1761
Page
4
The fragmentary OCR shows a royal patent and printing rights for The Public Ledger, a long list of auction lots in London, ships cargoes, and goods for sale, including sugar, indigo, wines, furniture, real estate and leases, plus notices of employment, missing persons, and lost items. It preserves names of ships, locations, and vendors in a hurried ad-heavy page.
London Chronicle lists three livings including the Rectory and Sheaf of Bishop's Tawton with Swymbridge Sankey chapelries annexed and the Manor of Tawton Dean near Barnstaple in Devonshire.
A public notice states lands and tenements will be sold by auction in Liverpool and other locations. Items include two lots: a freehold messuage in Ripon, Yorkshire, and a freehold estate in Burton Leonard, North Yorkshire. Also a set of Otway's plays, two volumes, and miscellaneous items from the Public Ledger.
Notice announces multiple freehold properties in Windsor Forest Winkfield Berks and Deeping Fenn Lincoln including several messuages closes and a freehold farm. The estate of William Perry Esq deceased is offered in four lots with parcels in Lancashire and other locations.
Notice dated June 8 announces sale of a house in Lower Grosvenor Street, freehold estates in Uppot ter y alias Upantry Devonshire, a freehold farm in Great Chesham Bucks, and sundry other premises including a piece of plate with erased marks. Also notices a meeting of trustees to repair roads from Dunstable to Stafford House in Hertford.
This advert for a periodical history in 1761 style lists John Barrow as author and promises weekly numbers. It notes naval leaders like Drake Raleigh Blake Vernon Anson and Hawke and references the defeat of the French fleet under Conflans. Published by Lownds Cafton Bristow and others with maps and engravings in a colonial British tone.
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