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Newspaper
Public Ledger
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
May 12, 1761
Page
4
The document records a royal license granted to William Faden for printing and vending The Public Ledger, forbidding reprints. It lists multiple auction and sale items by candle in Plymouth and other towns, including ships, stores, sugar, hemp, and arms, plus lost items, wanted ads, employment notices, and public notices from various offices and societies from 1761 era.
A 200 ton ship and various estates and items go to auction. Freeholds at Sit-cup Eltham Kent and Crossbrook Cheshunt Hertfordshire. Stock in trade of Abraham Ashley. libraries of Robert Henley and John Tinney. Household goods and copper plates. Estate at Tottenham High Cross. Day school and multiple houses in Edmonton Bray Holborn Bagshot. Multiple auctions by various trustees and agents.
The May 9 entry lists multiple parcels to be sold at auction in Bristol by Lot, including sundry houses on Bristol Bridge Marlborough and Eugene streets Bristol tenements in Rosemary lane and St Michael's hill freehold messuages on Southwell street Jacob street and John street two new built messuages Bedminster Causeway and a public house at Bedminster plus a dwelling in Rosemary lane and a messuage in Castle-ditch.
Notices announce auctions for freehold estates in St Martins by the Palace Norwich and Freelingfeld Norfolk, a dwelling with malting-office at Great Creffingham, several tenements in Great Yarmouth and St Peter Hungate Norwich, plus a dwelling and shop in Dickleburgh and property at Reepham Moor in Norfolk. Several estates to be sold by auction.
A May 9 notice lists properties for auction including A Freehold Farm and Lands at Stansfield Suffolk A fetfold Estate in Worlingham Suffolk and A Freehold Estate at Wickhambrook for sale by auction.
May 8 issue itemizes auctions of Caribbean sugar and coffee cargoes ship General Wolfe burden 250 tons Sloop Providence British built sixteenth-century leasehold estates of John Wilson in Shaw's Brew Liverpool diverse properties in Anglesey life of Owen Pritchard bankrupt A house in Union Street apprentice notices for a grocer oilman seedsman and surgeon’s apothecary shop recall of John Silvester and notices to creditors of Mrs Anne Smithson Brewer Old Hall Street Liverpool
The Creditors and Debtors of James Chandler late of Southrop Gloucestershire Gentleman are given notice. Persons who hold rights or property in the estate of John Hillsden of Padbury Buckinghamshire who died in 1759 without a will are notified.
Cambridge Journal prints multiple auction notices for estates and farms. Properties include Messuages and Lands in Benwick, March, Yardley Luffnel Clothall Hertfordshire Fleet Fen End Lincolnshire and Holbeach Sutterton. The entire estate of Richard Papworth of Fen Drayton is offered at Elsworth Cambridgeshire.
By Auétion in Dover the sale lists 260 gallons French Brandy and 650 gallons Holland Geneva. At Deal about 600 gallons Foreign Brandy and about 700 gallons Geneva. Also a messuage and shop in Feversham, a messuage and land in Folkestone, and a dwelling house and land in the parish of St. Peter in the Isle of Thanet.
A note by Roup outlines the lands, lordship, and barony of Newark located in the Shire of Fife, detailing historic titles and regional scope of authority associated with the estate.
The Aberdeen Journal notes the site known as Poolwells at The Mains of Inveramsay. The short piece mentions the place by its common name and historic reference in local records.
The report lists bank stock prices and bonds with various dates and amounts, including Old Ann New Ann LBank An 1756 and 1758, plus Exchequer Bills discounts and lottery tickets. It also shows exchange rates for Madrid Bilboa Leghorn Geneva Venice Lisbon Porto and high water times at London Bridge.
A colonial era advertisement touts Dr Urvoy’s Drops sold at the Star in the Old Bailey promising rapid cure for bowel and stomach pains as well as urinary obstructions. It also hawks Astruc’s Drops from Paris, with claimed universal weakness cures and a radical remedy for fistula offered by a visiting doctor daily. Merchants and ship captains are urged to purchase large quantities with favorable terms.
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