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Newspaper
Public Ledger
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
May 08, 1761
Page
4
In a December 17 1759 decree at St James s the Crown grants William Faden sole rights to print publish and read The Public Ledger and forbids reprint or abridgment by others under penalty. The license emphasizes trade and commerce readership and official sanction for the work.
A long catalog from a 18th century London print lists sales, auctions, and miscellaneous notices. Items include imported snuffs and silks for sale, ships and cargo details, and various auctioned furniture. The issue also records several employment listings, lost items, and notices from public houses and society meetings.
The notice catalogues items for sale or lease including an annuity of 2d per annum, mercery goods, carriages, post-chaise, a freehold mansion at Epsom Surrey, a freehold inn in Great Yarmouth, three freehold houses in Spitalfields, multiple brick properties in Bermondsey and Watford, a large set of chambers in Gray's Inn, twelve houses in Adams court Old Broad Street, a house in Town-ditch and a four-stall stable, plus houses in Egham Eltham near Hampstead Matthew's Green Berks and a 40 mile distant Hampshire property.
Public notice requests information about a person missing from late September or October last. Description includes hair style, light coat, and a Gelding horse. also mentions a handsome brick house and Hartley Wes area.
In an item from the May 7 issue, a dwelling house at Crookham Berks is offered by auction alongside four Whitchurch messuages in Shropshire three freehold houses in Newport Pagnel Bucks and a capital mansion near Wrexham Denbighshire. Also the widow or children of John Scovern, recently deceased, a Devonshire man who eight years ago sailed to Benfe Island Africa, are notified of an advantage to them.
Notice states a complete snuff grinding mill with engine for cutting tobacco, presses, boxes, and all related equipment. Also offered by auction is the improved lease of a farm in the parish of Carrick near Richmond Yorkshire.
The Olceter Journal lists multiple properties offered by auction or lease. Items include a large grove at Altywathen Carmarthenshire a farm in Olverton Glocester another in Cowley and the manor of Woodmancote Dursley plus leasehold estates at Chepstow and a dwelling Tan-yard Mill-house and four fenements in the City of Gloucester. Also listed are leases of Lands at Caldicot farms at Bully near Gloucester an estate at Taunton and a farm at Wellington Herefordshire.
Letters and figures show stock names such as Bank Stock 114 and India ditto 1-half. Includes South Sea ditto Old Ann 872, New Ann 87, Bank red 86, Consol 87.4, Ditto 1726 em' pir 1751, 8 percent Ditto India Ann 34, various annuity and bond entries, Navy and Vict. Bills, Exchequer Bills, Discount Lottery Tickets and Script with values noted.
London market column lists exchange rates for Amsterdam Rotterdam Antwerp Hamburgh Paris and other cities with daily figures for May 1761. High water times noted for London Bridge at 4 minutes after 4 in the morning and 2 minutes after 4 in the afternoon.
Public notice urges readers to order the seventh reprint of the Illustration of the Holy Scriptures by R Gorbdy and Baldwin. Weekly numbers sell for three pence, with two folio sheets per number and copper plate cuts. Subscribers may obtain the whole Old and New Testament notes, explanations, and copious observations to illuminate the Scriptures. A letter from a cleric requests a comprehensive concordance endnote to accompany the work, to please thousands of readers.
An advertisement extols a Balm of Gilead essence as a universal internal remedy. It claims to cure asthma coughing hoarseness consumptive lung disease and internal ulcers with a divine restorative quality. Sold by Kearf ly at the Golden Lion Ludgate Street with pricing for large and small bottles and a published essay on its virtues.
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