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Newspaper
Public Ledger
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
May 15, 1761
Page
4
An indexed advertisement page outlines auctions and sales from the Public Ledger including ships, cargo, medicines, real estate, and various goods. It also lists diversions at Sadler's Wells, sermons for charity, found items, lost items, and notices of lettings and vacancies. Names, places, and ships appear amid broad commercial notices for readers in trade and commerce.
Notice is given that items including two single horse chaises by Ration a collection of pictures and bronzes of Mr Hadley a house in King Street Covent Garden a large mansion in Soho Square two leasehold estates Whitechapel Road a freehold messuage in Bishopsgate Street eight brick messuages Bermondsey and remaining stock in trade of a jeweller and dealer will be sold by auction on May 14 Daily Advertiser
General notices announce an auction of goods including 350 tons of wines and sundry items at a mansion near Wrexham Denbighshire. A French prize ship Entreprenant is listed. Also a large tan yard to be left at Petworth Sussex, with dates in May.
London Evening May 14 lists LOLD 1 The Manor Titherington and Trent Fishery in Cheshire and LETT 4 A Brick House Stoke Green Buckinghamshire. The notices indicate ownership interests and associated lands and properties for public regard.
Notice that a large grove of oak at Alltywathen in Carmarthenshire will be sold by auction. Other listings include leasehold estates of the late William Whitaker in Wales, materials from houses in Bristol, freehold and copyhold estates of Joseph Gooding in Gloucester, a Brechold Inn in Northgate Street Gloucester, a farm in Olverton and Cowley in Gloucester, the Manor of Woodmancote in Dursley, a farm near Gloucester city and an estate at Taunton, another lease for a farm in Wellington Herefordshire, and various watchmakers and journeymen in Monmouth. Creditors and debtors of James Chandler of Southrop, Gloucestershire, have notices to settle.
Notice lists multiple properties for auction and sale including copyhold messuages in Whitchurch Salop and Rowington Warwick, freehold houses in Bemingham and on Moor Green to Moseley, a glass-house at Glassborough Stafford, an Inn at Dale End Birmingham, a house with gardens near Kidderminster Wem Salop, plus openings for a rider in Ironmongery, a charity school master and mistress in Shrewsbury, and a Workhouse farm in Shropshire.
The Caledonian Mercury lists a May 1 notice by Roup for a dwelling house in Mine’s Land on the shore of Lfith and a public roup of lands of Nether Barndannochy in the Shire of Dumfries with two inclosures and two houses in Mill- Role of Dumfries.
A garbled list of ships, captains, and destinations appears to sketch a voyage and prize entries. Names include Zephyr Prize linked to Pierre Gateston, Sea-Mary and Aan with Robert Anderson, Rotter Princess with Ant Bufkin, and others like Royalia Fe Giobbe, Goodwill B Klinckere, and Syren Prize. Destinations span Naples, Amsterdam, Calais, Ostend, Jamaica, Nova Scotia, Gibraltar, and North Bergen, with scattered foreign ports and captains.
A snippet shows stock prices and entries for banks and indiasa stocks with figures like 1425 and 864286 and 904, indicating a market listing. The readable items include Consol and Bank Ann variations and multiple ditto marks.
Exchange mentions rates for Amsterdam Rotterdam Antwerp and Paris with daily date figures. It lists various price quotes such as 102 33 for Amsterdam and 324 314 for Paris with a note of 42 at London Bridge and noon and four minutes after 22.
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