Public Ledger granted printing license in 1659
William Faden undertook compiling the Public Ledger at great expense and was granted licence to print publish and vend the work by command of the crown dated December 17 1659 at St Jamess under W Pitt the royal authority forbidding reprint abridgement or publication by others under penalty of risk to themselves.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George R
Wiliam
W. Pitt
Diblis Leverer
Kingdon
St. Paul's Church-Yard
Long advertisement list from London papers with ships and notices
A dense page of public notices and advertisements from the London press. It lists sales of vessels Hirondelle and Pallas, goods and linen trade changes, naval payment notices, tavern openings near Epping Forest, lost items such as a silver watch, various employments sought and offered, and a range of rental and property notices. Also includes a poem excerpt and notices about commissioners and volunteers, plus several housing and job classifieds and a marriage of civic notices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Navy
Britih Volunteers & Y Notte
Mills Colby
Greenwich
Achives
Mary
Hopton
Epping Forest
Layton Stone
Walthamton
Public notices and miscellaneous items in June 26 issue
The notice lists items such as lett y at tavern on Richmond Green and a house near London, mentions Mary Wilkins and five other miscellaneous entries. It includes notices from Surgeons Company on osteology lectures, Chelsea Water-works dividend notification, York Buildings Company adjournment, Chelsea Hospital pensioners notice, and creditors of Mr Kent to meet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Freedom
Richmond Green
Surry
London
Mary
James Wilkins
Surgeons Company
Chelea
York Buildings Company
General Court
Chelsea Hospital
Kent
Sale of Mercery Goods by Mrs John Pierson
Notice lists the sale of a large stock of mercery goods, over two thousand linen drapery pieces, from Mrs John Pierson of York. A reward is offered for identifying the author of a letter addressed to the pamphlet titled A Chronicle of the War between the Felicianites, the Gallianites, and their Allies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Pierson
City of
York
Auction notices for houses and estates in London and counties
A historical auction notice lists sales of freehold and leasehold properties in Covent Garden Westminster and surrounding areas, including a public house auction near Covent Garden, a four-wheeled carriage, and stock items such as wine and brewery gear. Additional parcels include dwellings in Miles Lane Cannon Street Greenwich Hoxton Tottenham and Sutton with furniture and brewing utensils at Bury Hall Hertford.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Orlett
Covent Garden
Southwould
County of Suffolk
Miles- Lane
Cannon-Street
Fisher-Lane
Aiton
G. St Melluanes Shakespear’s
Shadwell
Efate
Hoxton Markée
Andtioh
Houthold
Joseph
Weatherby
Au@ion
Bury Hall
Richmond
Sutton
Honundaw
Stolen Public Ledger Item From London Journal
Fragmentary OCR notes report a stolen public ledger item and scattered references to a shop near a cross, with mentions of miscelaneous articles and French matters in Hispaniola, attributed to North FOEHIGA merchants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hispaniola
Foehiga
Land and dwellings in St Martiny parish and surrounding estates
Notice lists land holdings and customary inheritance lands in St Martiny near Birmingham, including three meffiages and a dwelling house. Also mentions a Frechold Messuage near St Clears in Carmarthenshire and a clergyman seeking a parish appointment in Yorkshire. A police notice warns of wanted recruits from the 3rd Regiment of Dragoon Guards and the Gas Regiment, with rewards offered for apprehension of the mentioned deserters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Martiny
Birmingham
Dutchy
Cornwall
Alty’s
St. Clear’s
Carmarthen
Apdlisn
Thergris
Ener
Priesia
Ana Ant
Yorkshire
Daniel Harding
Pexabeek
Rt of Dragion
Guards
Alfo Thoma
Tigerle
William Williams
Thomas
Murrays
Foot
Herife
Real Estates of John Owen and Robert Owen Letting Notice
In London Chening June 26 a notice proclaims lett of the Real Estates of John Owen Esquire of Prefaddved and Robert Owen his deceased brother in Anglesey and Caernarvon shires. Also a Dwelling House to be let at Wymondham in Leicestershire.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Owen
Prefaddved
Robert Owen
Anglésen and
Carnarvon Co
Wymondham
Leciester
Deserted Soldiers in 68th and 14th Regiments Notice
Notice in St James Creatux dated June 25 offers rewards for apprehending deserters from the 68th and 14th Regiments of Foot, naming Jones Marshall and John Barnes. The paper also carries an epitaph to the memory of the Hon. Sir William Gibbons, Bart. deceased, and notes a theft from the Public Ledger.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. James's Creatux
I Jones Arshall
68Th Regiment of Foot
John Barnes
14Th Regiment of Foot
William Gibbons
Public Ledger
Notice of Mixed Real Estate and Personal Property Sales
A lengthy notice lists numerous freehold estates and dwellings across Radnor and Gloucestershire, including properties in The Wern, Eastgate Street Glocester, The Wood in Radnor, Lower Swell, Hay, and Corve Street Glocester. It mentions elopement of Martha Arnold, apprenticeships, timber-cutting advisories, custody of goods, and debt notices to Samuel Bliss and others, plus toll diversion near North Gate Turnpike and various named individuals in a dated public notice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wern
Radnor
Eastgate Street
Glocester
Wood
Lower Swell
Glocesters
Corve Street
Martha
Samael Arnold
Minchithampton
Glécester
John _Edmondes
William Chadwell
Mathew Forges
County of Monmouth
Glocetter
Strofdon
Roth-Taftant
Grocester
Property sales and public notices from Birmingham area
A Birmingham Gazette notice lists several sales and auctions including a Messuage in St Martins Parish Birmingham, a four tenement estate in Patworth Staffordshire, a property near Gravel Hill Shrewsbury, and a house near the Bull Ring Birmingham. Another item notes a staymaker in Staffordshire and an election of trustees for a road survey from Newport to Welch Harp Stonwall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. ‘Martin’s ‘Parith
Birmingham
Pepktithr
Staffe
Autti
Solyhal
Hee
a.Gap
Ordan
Stafford
Gravelhill
Shrewsburt
Ian Staymaker
Staffordshire
Wolverhampton
Gentlesan
Newport
Salon
Welch Harp
Stonwall
Sale of Land Fronting the Old Wynd Glasgow
Notice announces a public roup to sell a titled A"Tésement" of land fronting the Old Wynd in Glasgow. The item indicates property to be sold by public auction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Glasgow
Financial Securities and Bank Stock Prices in India and Britain
The item lists varied securities and bonds including Bank Stock at 110, India Ditto, Old Annuities at 14, New Arduities at 84, 3 percent Faiaa at 89, Evhalf 36, Piracy securites, India Annuities, Bank Annuities 57662, Four Percent ditto 4 per Cent ditto 37, See fut. per Cent, 96 Bition Beak 270, Royal Assurance London per Cent, Bank Circulation 31 15 Prem, India Bonds 5s to 7s Prem, Navy and Victualling Bills gi per Cents, Life Annuities, Lottery Tickets sh. 148, Scrip EREO, paor gts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
India
Royal Assurance
Hahgaring
Daktzick
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Hirondelle
Bayonne
Plymouth
Newington Butts
Surf
Mincing Lake
Fleet-fiseet
Hockley
Hole
Thames Street
Henry Marley
Meff, Honeywood, Fuller, and Co
Edinburgh
Goodman's Fields
Spittle- Fields
the Royal
A. Penman
Erlands Oo
Christ’s Hospital
Fulham and
Hammer
Mitt
Met
Richmond Wells
Duke-street
Berry Street
Picadilly
fort Rother_hithe tor Grivetentoo
Portsmouth
Fair Ley
John Rattenary
Thomas Fisher
Pontefract
County of
Mercer
Woollen- Deaper
Coentig Courant
Piershill
Public Quvertiser
Daily Gazetteer
London Chanicte
Fine
London Chening
Glocefer Mothrwal
Lombard-street
Pauloccio
Win. Pearce
Monfi
de Razily
Richard Watkinson
Joseph Junior
Peter B Batail
John Nash
Major Mir
Fromas' Brier
Nlande
Ja. Gaff
Grace” Bayle
Orby Rich
Edward Bailey
Hs Chan Mont
Exege
Berg
George Hurle
Tho, Bate, Mierghant
Eich
London Bilge
Birmingham Gazette
Glasgots Courant
Reige
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