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Newspaper
Public Ledger
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Sep 13, 1760
Page
4
The public ledger lists ship cargoes bound to Bristol and London ports, pirate concerns, and various private contracts. It also details notices of lost items such as a silver watch, a gold ring with crystal, and a hempen handkerchief, plus announcements of elopement, public houses for sale, and employment wants in the London area.
Fragmentary OCR text notes a notice about a Wednesday action or event with references to days and shifting pieces. Names and places are unreadable, making specifics unclear. The readable fragment mentions a date proximity and a public notice style typical of a local entry.
Auction notices indicate items to be sold including horses such as Bay Gelding and Bay-brown geldings plus various gear and household effects. Letting opportunities listed include a House and Shop near Lincoln’s Inn Fields and multiple houses in Hackney and New Bond Street with several dis furnished or partial spaces available.
Notice lists multiple properties including Freehold Estates at Conisbrough Thornhill Austonsey Bradway Meadow Cotterhill and Gildenwell and a Farm at Wath with related land parcels in York and Derbyshire. Descriptions include nine tenements and wine cellars and a farm at Apeth. Also referenced are parolees and apprentices with rewards and notices for elopers and a trustees notice of letting a toll road property.
Notice is given that there are to be sole and copyhold estates near Mattlesfield in Chatter County by Antony and a Moyage in Hough and Morley. A tenement at Burton and a messuage at Eftonsnead Chester are described. Rewards offered for appearance of them.
Notice lists several freehold messuages and premises in Lancashire and Manchester to be sold or let, including Rostack Han dersfield and Withington properties. It also states a reward for apprehending a listed person, Janathay Waiawri, and mentions a company associated with the notice.
A long catalog of religious and scholarly works arranged by authors and subjects. Entries include sermons by Ward and Machclesfield, political tracts by Crawford and Roch, natural philosophy on Venus by Martin, and numerous dictionaries, voyages, and histories. Prices mostly show in shillings and pence.
Prices from the Corn Exchange in Mark Lane list various grains and seeds. Heat per quarter ranges 29s to 328, barley 176s, rye 16s to 173, oats 138 to 1s 6d, finest flour 26s per sack, second sort 24s 8d, third sort 22s, brown malt 20s to 216, pale malt 21s 5d to 28 6d, beans 26s to 238, treacle 226 to 25s, linseed 28s 3d to 28s 2d, hemp seed 18 to 20s, rape seed 26s 198 to 198, etc.
A fragmentary ledger page lists merchants James Leafy and Edward Mize, with prices on stock, bonds, and annuities, plus exchange rates and ship finance details. It notes a Friday September 2 1760 lowdown for various European markets and domestic ship loans in a bustling, uncertain financial scene.
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