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Newspaper
Public Ledger
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Mar 10, 1760
Page
4
In London William Faden petitions for royal licence to print publish and vend The Public Ledger for fourteen years. The Crown grants exclusive printing rights forbidding reprints abridgments or distribution abroad without consent, under penalty. Dated St James s December 17, 1759.
A dense collage from Public Ledger notices March 8 listing auctions sales of goods including five bags of billapatam pepper, lectures by Dale Ingram, provisions for prisoners of war at Biddeford, sale of Peregrine sloop stores at Portsmouth, wage payments for Britannia, a Spirit of Contradiction letter, and notices seeking deserters Henry Ellery and Henry Perse. Captains of Independent Companies urged to meet, rewards offered for apprehending Thomas Smith, Samuel South, and a highwayman. Descriptions of offenders provided.
Daily Gazetteer dated March 8 notes a section on the Cargo of the Philadelphia Packet by Candle. It calls Proprietors of the Antigallican Privateer to meet and includes a letter signed Simplicius discussing the drawbacks of the national debt.
The page lists numerous auction items and notices including real estate in Middlesex and Essex, houses and shops in Lambeth and Whitechapel, a stock of china and furniture from deceased estates, public houses, stores and shops, gardens, and land near Shepperton and Reading. It also advertises wanted help, employment, and lost or deserted persons with rewards and court notices.
Worcester Journal item lists to be sold properties including a freehold messuage in Worcester six freehold tenements near Worcester two freehold messuages in Bromsgrove and to be let an enclosed farm at Wilmcott in Warwickshire a house in Worcester and a shop and house on Bread Street Worcester.
Notice given of various advertisements and catalog entries including books pamphlets and publications Paradise Loft an Oratorio Sedre Shrubs of Parnassus by J Copywell as well as financial securities stock prices bank annuities and government loans. It notes that some papers contain no further details and will be inserted in order. a general summary of prices and listings follows with references to advertisements and notices in different days.
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