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Newspaper
Public Ledger
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jun 28, 1760
Page
4
A damaged 18th century proclamation from St James’s Court forbids publication of a royal order. It references the fifteenth day of December in the Thirty-Third year of the reign and mentions subjects and publication restrictions under the king’s command. The text includes spellings and phrasing typical of early modern notices and lists penalties for reproachful printing.
A dense compilation from a periodical notes a wide range of adverts and notices. Items include sales of ships and goods, merchant prizes, lost and found, wanted jobs, public house ads, and legal and financial notices. Names of ships, places like London and Plymouth, and various trades and offices appear throughout, with numerous reward and sale details.
Notices announce sale of the Tavistock ship by candlelight with 600 tons burden, wanted items include clean flooring deals and a large main sail for a sloop. Also a house to be found west of London and a trustees meeting for Surry and Suffex Furnpikes. A reward for capturing a highwayman and for returning a watch with white dial and green shagreen cafe is offered.
The notice lists numerous items to be sold by auction or public sale including houses in London areas such as Covent Garden, St. George's Hanover Square, Curzon Street, John Street and Watling Street. Also advertised are chariots, a pleasure barge, household goods, stock in trade, a pawnshop, Amber Brewhouse at Deptford, rooms near the Royal Exchange, and other properties and chattels formerly held by various individuals.
A notice announces a deserter from the 67th Regiment of Foot identified by description and offers a reward for apprehending him. It also references a miscellaneous article offering a reward for discovering the author of a pamphlet titled A Chronicle of the War Between the Felicianites, the Gallianites and their Allies, dated June 17.
A historical notice lists properties for sale including two Freehold Closes in Gate-Foulford near York, a Farm House in Burrowby with land at Allerton Ings, a Stable and Hay-Chamber on Toft-Green near Micklegate Bar in York, and a Farm with several closes at Gargrave in the County of York.
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