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Newspaper
Public Ledger
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Sep 11, 1760
Page
4
A long page fragment lists licensing for William Faden for The Sublib LED con amid royal decree at St James Court. It also advertises multiple estate sales and lets, missing persons and rewards, lost and found items, employment wants, and miscellaneous notices from Plymouth to Cornwall and Devon.
The document lists ships for sale by candle or private contract including Mary 760 tons Stretham 240 Wolfe 240 Tyger 290 Trecothick 220 Thomlinson 7 Oliver 250 Margery 209 Britannia 280 Henley Frigate 400 and indigo cargoes. Also notices from the Navy commissioners to treat for a ship freight to Antigua pea jackets warmth articles burning reeds for Deptford Woolwich, widow society meeting, a Chinese letter from Pekin, and a letter on navy prize money hardships.
Glocester Journal lists several property sales including an Inn at Dursley and an Inn at Newport, a freehold estate at Camrose, a staffage at Carmarthen, a farm with three cottages at Cow Honeybourne, and a recruiting notice for Joseph Rode with a reward. Also advertised are men capable of digging stone and working at turnpikes in Frampton Gloucestershire and a servant man in Monmouth.
In the September 10 edition, a list notes a Red Morocco demipeak saddle with gear, pistols, sword, and belt lost. A freehold messuage on Wapping street is announced, a silver watch by Ralph Grover is stolen, and various household items including quilts and clothing are listed as missing. A reward is offered for Thomas Baldwin, who escaped from a Southwark gaol between twelve and one.
Daily Gajettert reports Milk Notice 13 finding seven cows missing. Item notes a small green parrot listed among the lost property. The notice emphasizes recovery actions and contact details for owners.
Daily Qubertiser itemized auction notices dated September 10 list multiple properties and items for sale. Includes double keyed harpsichord a phaeton house in John Street near Golden Square and various estates in Ramsey West Wickham and Surrey. Also mentions goods from Mr John King deceas’d and the property at Covent Garden and Mincing Lane shop and par lour auctions.
A notice is given to a gentleman who met a young Lady on Sunday night about nine o'clock in the Butcher-Row. The item appears in miscellaneous notes dated September 1.
A notice lists a Freehold Estate at Headlam Durham One Moiety of Skiningrave Manor by Auction A Malt Kiln at Daslington An Inn at Cockermouth Cumberland A Dwelling House in the Oat Market Newcastle The notice states that someone has eloped William Scott apprentice to Patrick Thompson
The Salisbury Journal lists auctions and property notices including the Mary Flower Brigantine at Lymington, a freehold messuage and gardens at South Newton near Wilton, a leasehold cottage and garden there, a freehold flats at Staverton, an inn at Romsey, a dwelling house and malt house at Blandford Forum, a public house in Blandford Forum, Baverstock House in Wiltshire, and a tavern at Portsmouth plus other parcels.
Notice is given there are to be lett. A Flour Mill a dwelling house bake house and malt house at Box in Wiltshire county Elizabeth the wife of John Phelps a reward is offered for information of John Kelly bagpipe maker and player of Bath creditors and debtors of John Brookman mason late of Bathwick deceased have notice given them.
The passage records sale and letting notices for properties including a brick hole near the Dock Yard at Sheernese and a farm near Sandwich, plus deserters Thomas Almond and John Devlin from an Independent Company of Light Infantry. It also notes prize money payment notices for the armed cutters Duke William and Two Brothers.
Notice announces bids to dispose of lands named Spittal in La ncré and Glenfair in Stirling. Public coup sale to be held as prescribed. Authorities warn interested bidders to follow official procedures and deadlines.
Passage fragment notes ships including The Cumberland Jof Duit and Nancy Bartholomew Rooke with origins Jamaica as of September 9 focusing on brief maritime entries.
A set of undated letters addressed to Parfong with multiple foreign office references. Names include Monf Pierre Fagotth, Monf Ludıado, Vital Tranquil, Getherd Luders, Johan Flaxen, Madam Bolonie, Madam Lonifa, Mr Lareb. The fragment hints at correspondence among officials and residents with unclear jurisdictions.
A list of names followed by a dense catalog of securities including bank stock Indian annuities various per cent rates and classifications such as Royal Assurance Hungarian Loan Dantzick Bank Circulation India Bonds Prem India Bills Exchequer Bills lottery tickets and scrip with figures like 1175 238 and 1760 indicating amounts or years. The entry reads as a ledger fragment detailing investors and security holdings for Mr Abraham Cohen Da Sylva Mr Wm Gachen David Price Charles Bishop James Spence John Deane Catherine Winter Captain Henderson Rowland Mansis James Leafy Edward Maguire Prone and Dr Thomas Lashiey with references to 1175 238 a half 64 22 83 1 half 3 percent 2 3 percent and various other 18th century financial instruments.
The London Journal lists exchange rates for Amsterdam Rotterdam Antwerp Paris Cadiz Madrid Bilboa Leghorn Geneva Venice Lisbon Porto Dublin and others with a 9 to 60s scale and a record of high water at London Bridge 19 minutes after 3 in the morning and 33 minutes after 3 in the afternoon. The page preserves period pricing and nautical notes for the day.
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