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Newspaper
Public Ledger
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
May 16, 1761
Page
4
The notice proclaims licenses for printing a periodical and lists a long catalog of sales. It includes ships, cargo, and prizes from Rochfort, boarding schools, exhibitions, and a wide array of items for sale or lease, plus numerous public notices on lost found and employment.
Notice lists three sales by candle including woollen drapery linen mercery goods from the estate of a merchant lately deceased, a large quantity of mercery and mercery items, and four bank notes wrapped in a consolidated receipt. Also mentions the annual feast of the Governors of the City of London lying-in hospital for married women.
A fragment lists items titled The remaining Part of five Houses on Bon don Bridge to by cancion An Assortment of Mercery oods. Includes The Shell of an Apothecary's Shop Cork Waistcoats to swim in and A new Post-chaife or Chariot.
Notice announces let or sale of multiple properties in York, Scarborough, Leeds, Wakefield, Hull and nearby areas. Items include freehold and copyhold estates, two farms, a dwelling house with shop, a quarry, and an inn. Also listed are an annuity, an apprentice position, and creditors’ notice for John Bell, merchant.
Notice announces the sale of one third part of the Spring Wood on two farms in Brownbirks Wood, Dean in Cliviger. It also states a vacancy in Rotherham for a person to teach Writing Arithmetic and English.
Seenes Intelligencer announces auction of multiple properties including a Close of Land in Humlet Leeds with parcels of land totaling about 30 acres at Castle ford York. Also a House and Shops at Timble-bridge Leeds with two cottages and a Public House in Lowerhead-row Leeds to be sold.
Notice lists multiple building works including a new-erected dwelling in Bamford Heap Bury Parish two more dwellings in Manchester water corn mills on the River Tame near Ashton under Lyne and another on the River Medlock within Ashton under Lyne Parish reflecting early industrial expansion plans.
An auction notice announces the sale by auction or in part of two freehold horses located in Stamford High Street Lincolnshire. The listing names the estate of Andrew Rogers bookseller Stamford bankrupt and the creditors and debtors of Mr John Tilley late of St Martins Stamford Baron Northampton deceased. Also named are the debtors to William Johnson late of Lincoln joiner deceased.
May 13 record notes a Meffluage or tenement in the Market place Feversham. The brief entry records a property matter tied to the town and its market area with no further details available.
Public notices announce lettings for lands Nether Barntannech in Dumfries shire, two enclosures and two houses in Miln Hole, and Auchindenane house with fixtures in Dumbarton shire. Also offered are books and pamphlets on luxury and happiness, a Lucerne cultivation treatise, and ledger prices for assorted goods. Ships entries and market prices accompany the page, with stock and exchange rates noted for May.
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