Royal Licence Granted for The Public Ledger by William Faden
The Public Ledger is granted a royal licence for sole printing publishing and vending for fourteen years by William Faden of London. The document, dated December 17 1759 at St James's, forbids reprinting or distribution without consent, and directs obedience by customs wardens and the Stationers Company. Includes note on an index of advertisements and proposals from various papers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Public Ledger
George R
Eis
William Faden
London
St. James’s
W. Pitt
Mixed notices of sales and public actions in March Ledger
Public Ledger lists items to be sold or let including ships Phoenix and Dolphin and pepper and butter cargoes, various houses, furniture, and goods. It notes provisions for prisoners of war, pension payments, wages for Britannia Privateer, a correspondence on marriage settlements, plus numerous estate, shop, and personal notices, looting and elopement items, and multiple bids and appointments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Phoenix
Dolphin
Change Alley
Biddeford
Commissioners of the Treasury
Britannia
Thomas Demur
Estate sales and notices from the Norwich Mercury
A page listing multiple items of sale and notices across Norfolk and surrounding counties. It includes properties: a good mansion in Laxfield Suffolk, a windmill at Basham, a dwelling near Crediton, a wine cellar in Exeter, and ships and cargo to be sold by candle or auction. Also public houses, inns, debts and creditors notices for Harwich and Witham, and a deserter from the 69th Regiment. The document mixes real estate, taverns, ships, cargo, and missing person notes with miscellaneous notices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Difs
Norfolk
County of Norfolk
Great Yarmouth
Yarmouth
John Bell
Norwich
Laxfield
Suffolk
Basham
Busden
Ipswich
John Bayley
Harwich
John Campbell
Elizabeth Pattison
Witham
Exeter
Windouthill
Devonshire
Crediton
Candle Ny
Liverpool
Marshall’s Cross
Lancashire
Newbold
Worcestershire
David Bradshaw
69Th Regiment of Foot
William Hawkins
Oxford
Auctions and Notices From Cambridge area in Rampton Cottenham and more
A scanned 18th century notice lists property for sale and employment in Cambridgeshire Lincolnshire and nearby counties. Items include landholdings at Rampton Cottenham and Deeping Saint James a windmill near Somersham farming homesteads and a large fenland tract in the Isle of Ely an Inn on the Lincoln Road and professional posts in Southwell and Bedfordshire Also notices seeking employment a reward for damaging trees accusations of an incendiary letter and a cockfight planned at Fleet plus creditors notices and sales of a public house and a dyehouse materials in Leicestershire and a Leicester messuage plus a servant’s disappearance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rampton
Cambridgeshire
Cottenham
Deeping Saint James
Lincolnshire
Somersham
Huntingdonshire
Stow Cuns
Isle of Ely
Lincoln Road
Southwell
Northamptonshire
Bedfordshire
Cambridge
Philip Girls
Fleet
Mary Welt
Uppingham
Shan
Rearby
Leecestershire
Rhodesey
Leicestershire
Leicester
William Hazel
Thomas Bennett
Leicestershire Militia
Notices of Property for Sale Across Several Towns
A dated notice lists properties for sale including a new-built house at Kings Cliff, a farm in Wisbech High Fen, an estate of the Free Grammar School in Stamford, a commodious dwelling at Grantham, and a journeyman clock-maker at Homn castle. Also mentioned is a cockfight at Lowth and high water times at London Bridge with partial price and timing details embedded in scattered papers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
King’s Clif
Wisbech High Fenn
Free-Grammar School
Stamford
Gran
Tham
Homncastle
Lowth
Also Mentioned on This Page
Kisane
Public Advertiser
Houfhold Furniture
Lacey
Heathfield
Silkman
Hungary
Committee of the Bridge Lands
Diana
Endymion
Westminster Hospital
Essex
Middlesex
Kent
Daily Gazetteer
Philadelphia Packet
Daily Advertiser
Portugal-street
Monmouth-street
Bow
Barking
Ratcliffe
Shepperton
Houseold
Mary Haines
Houshold Furniture
John Burdett
Gamaliel Cowdery
Kingston
Surry
Callico
Carshalton
Sandybrook
Derbyshire
Colney
St. Alban’s
Clerkenwell Close
Guildhall
Aldersgate Street
Hoffer’s and Haberdasher
Lincoln's Inn Fields
Elizabeth
William Amory
Joseph Thornton
Bhue
Aetolen
Leedger Lantaster
London Bridge Water Works
Antigallican
His Majesty
Blandford
St. George
A. Sr
William Meadows
Henry Wright
James Ingerfe
Ingersfield
Mary Lee
Lloyd’s Evening
Pott
Berlin
B. H
Norwich Mercury
Ipswich Journal
Exeter Journal
Liverpool Advertiser
Oxford Journal
Cambridge Journal
London Bridge
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