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Newspaper
Public Ledger
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Oct 17, 1760
Page
4
Our trust William Faden funded writers to compile the Public Ledger and request our license for printing publishing and vending forbidding reprints abridgments or publication by others at their peril given at court at Saint James's on December 17 1759 in the thirty third year of our reign by command of the king.
A compiled public letter and index lists notices from daily, evening, and weekly papers. It announces sales of leaseholds in Low-Layton Essex and goods including casks of Hungary Pearl Ashes and tons of Carracea Cocoa by candle, plus miscellaneous articles and wanted notices. It mentions prisoners of war, maritime charity, and various individuals with notices of rights, elopements, lettings, and persons to be informed.
The issue lists public sale notices for Lands of Spittal in the Shire of Lanark and various securities including Old and New Annuities, Bank circulations, India Bonds, Navy Bills, and Lottery Tickets. It provides exchange rates and market prices for European cities, with timing for high water at Longa Heipe.
Public Advertiser notes a lost small silver watch by maker Thomas Johnson and about twenty yards of ruby ground lat tin with a white sprig. It also records an elopement incident involving Samuel Goodwin alias Thomas Furner from his master George Jacques.
October 6 daily gazetteer notes a course of lectures titled The Theory and Practice of Midwifery by Dr Harvey. Also published is a personals notice seeking employment from a young man to tend horses, wait at tables, or work as a waiter in a coffee house or tavern.
Notices list items for sale or auction including packing mats, a four wheel chariot, leases and houses in Bing's Arms Yard Covent-Garden King Street Camberwell and Westminster, public houses and apartments near Cheapside Southampton Row St Paul’s Churchyard and Leicester Fields. Also lost items including an exchequer order a bank note a silver spoon and dogs and sought employment and companionship posts.
London Chronicle reports an October 16 auction for a freehold estate at Mendletham in Suffolk. The sale details indicate an open competition for property ownership, with prospective buyers urged to inspect the premises before bidding.
The notice lists General Chenity at Midhurst Sussex announcing an auction sale for a Freehold including a Mediabage, Malthouse, and Garden in Midhurst and seeks an organist at Southampton. It also notes creditors and debtors of William Ring, timber merchant of Shrewsbury, have notice.
Auction notices list a freehold farm in the Liberties of Newbold and Brampton Derby with two four farms at Great Cropwell and a Vicarage House with land at Arnold. The item specifies parcels and locations in Nottingham and Derby counties as part of a property sale notice.
A fragmented notice lists Bertith Walk and a date October 11 with a house at Maicdttene and a garden at Canterbury planted with fruit trees. It also mentions a coachman, a gardener, and a housekeeper cook at Canterbury. Creditors and debtors of Mr Howard of Dover, brazier and tin plate worker, have notice given them.
A notice invites persons to undertake building a bridge over the River Wye at Bredwardine Passage in Hereford County. The notice specifies the location and date related to the proposed construction project.
Notice dated October 16 announces a deserted individual named William Anderson with description and a reward offered for apprehension. It also lists another person who claims to live in Sussex and deals in horses, who took a house at Feltham in Middlesex, with notice given to him.
Notice lists multiple real estate disposals including a freehold messuage and lands at Tydden ham Glocester and a farm at Little Barrington with additional parcels in the Bourn and Glocester districts. Mentioned are miscellaneous articles and a reward offered for apprehending George Adey Broad Weaver of Horily Glocester. Debtors to Evan Thomas of Laddilovaur Carmarthenshire receive notice.
October 13 Bath Rowrnal publishes several property listings including a messuage and Buffletown near Bristol a dwelling house with outbuildings and gardens at Stoke Lane Somerset a leasehold estate at Cloford Somerset a house in John Street Bath and a tenement at Frethford Somerset with lettings announced by auction.
Notice announces sale of a freehold estate at Westbury Salop by auction, two freehold mortgages, and a parcel of land for building at the Four Athes in Wolverhampton. Details specify the locations and the types of property to be sold.
Inwards ships listed include Hazard from Two Brothers S.C. Peterson from Hamburg Four Friends Rob Tockitt from Guernsey Maria Sophia Liorentzen from Trieft Eaple Alexander Christal from Venice Altham Eben Cozen from Quebec Sherbourn Robert Calef from Boston Sally William Curtis from St Kitts. Onclearings include Polly Richard Watts for Lisbon Prosperity Lewis Owen for Dublin Polly Joh Hae for Lion Two Friends Rob Williams for Dublin Princess Royal O Williams for Waterford.
The document enumerates numerous individuals and firms including Thompson, Son, and Co. Samuel Walth. Diego De La Fuente Garcia Monf. Louis Moulier Mont. Jacob Hebricks Myniher-Arnoldus Menier. Williams and Biglio. Sandie Guiler. Jon Frederic Brands. Mrs Shannon Ment Smith. Kensington. F Ring Mionf. Dutreville Monf. Varesqui Monf. Matthew Frizier. William Gilbert. Capt Ambrosio Rapalio. Mrs Walmesley. James Warren Ellert Carnelison Soloman. Jacobs. John Flenrick Lokie Monf. Frederick Williams.
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