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Newspaper

Public Ledger

Location

London, Middlesex, United Kingdom

Date

Sep 15, 1760

Page

4

Licensing William Faden Edgerim The edger work license 1859

Our sovereign authority grants license to William Faden to print publish and read The Edge r Work after expending effort by several gentlemen to write and compile it. The license forbids any reprint abridgment or publication by others under penalty. Dated at St James's the Seventeenth day of Chamber One thousand eight hundred fifty nine.

Public Ledger Von George R Edger William Faden St. James’s

Public Notices and Advertisements in London Papers

A dense listing of public notices Advertisements and sales from London papers including lease surrenders ship listings tobacco prices and various wants and needs broken into sections for liberties prizes and goods with details on legacies debts and estates and a wide array of classified notices from 1760s era press. It catalogs properties ships cargoes and goods for sale isles of request for servants trades and employment plus missing and found items and public announcements.

Three Hunters Notice Describes Deserted Property

A Daly Gazetteer entry dated September 13 announces a Three Hunters Notice about a deserted property. The notice signals actions under local seizure or remedy procedures and invites affected parties to respond within the specified period.

Auction notices list various properties and goods

Daily Anbertiser notes multiple auctions in Middlesex and London. Items include an estate at Sunbury, shares in Drury Lane Playhouse, Alderney cows, a one horse chaise, freeholds in Kensington Square and Queen Ann Street, household furniture and stock, a new-built house in St James Westminster, ground at Horsleydown, a farm ten miles from Tyburn Turnpike, and shops or lodgings in Wapping, Pall Mall, and other central locations.

Sunbury G. Houfhold Marybone St. James Westminster Chancery Lane Horsleydown Southwark Middlesex Tyburn Turnpike Town Cloak Lane Great Chelsea Cme Surry-direet Strand Howe London Edmonton Fetter-Lapeau Chiswick Leicesterfields Wapping Wall Pall Mall Silenery and Haberdathery

Notice of Sale and Bankrupt Dividends in Fonda Gazette

The Commissioners of the Customs announce a sale of sugars and ginger in Bowne Time 2. Notices are given to officers and ships listed of prize money payments. Bankrupts John Arnold William Shaw Henry Cowle Samuel Coleby Edward Cartor George Fitzgerald and others have dividends or certificates shown.

Customs Bowne Terrible Trent Trident Seathorfe Somerset Northumerland Vestal Monmouth Pallas Dunkirk Achilles Prince Edward Cutter Lynn Ferrett Deal Castle Stag Brilliant Saphire Rochester Maidstone Renown Coventry Thames Vanguard Isish

Auction Notice: Chesham Bois Mansion House Sale in Bucks

Evening issue announces an auction of a messuage and farm in Oxfordshire with a separate entry noting the Mansion House of Chesham Bois in Buckinghamshire. The notice lists letting and property terms for the two parcels, indicating a sale process and responsible authorities.

Oxfordshire Chesham Bois County of Bucks

Dethy Wercurp and Chesterfield Lands Listed in Notice

A fragmentary notice from September 12 describes a handsome well-built house at Chesterfield and three clo fes at Dr onfield with a parcel of land a dwelling house and adjoining clo fes. The language is obscure but indicates real estate and property listings from a historical notice.

Chesterfield Dronfield

Farm at Barrington Oxfordshire Notice

Notice states a farm at Barrington in Oxfordshire is to be let. Details are brief and fragments indicate a tenancy action without further particulars or dates.

Basingstoke Overton Ilmington Hill County of Warwick Barrington Oxfordshire

Freehold and business notices from Mull-Hill-Leeds area

The Leeds Intelligencer lists a freehold estate at Mull-Hill Leeds intended for auction, a public house in Leeds, a malt house and dwelling-house at Burton Smithers Yorkshire, and a vacancy for an apprentice to a salter in Yorkshire.

Mull-Hill-Leeds Leeds Burton Smithers Yorkshire

Freehold Properties and Miscellaneous Notices

Notice announces sale of two freehold dwelling houses near Owlerton along with five freehold clofes and reversions of two freehold messuages and four freehold cloces at Owlerton. It also informs creditors and debtors of Robert Brownwell of Newfield Green that they have notice.

Syhetficla Anvertiser Notie Owlerton Robert Brownwell Newfield Green County of York

Miscellaneous notices and debts in Ashford area 18th century

Wentish Holk notes several properties in Ashford Town including a grocer shop and a dwelling. Underdown Farm at Herne Fryde in Newnham is listed with a wheelwright shop at Hythe and a steward seedsman. Creditors and debtors of Samuel Fuller of Canterbury and Thomas Savage of Doddington are referenced with notices of debts.

Wentish Holk Ashford Underdown Herne Fryde Newnham Hythe Samuel Fuller Canterbury

Glasgow Notice of Public Land Sales

Notices announce public roup sales of Dalmuir Lands on the River Clyde near Glasgow and Silver Craighs Land in Roup Glasgow with sale by public auction. The brief item preserves the exact phrasing and entities from the original notice.

Dalmuir Clyde Glasgow Silver Craigh

Land sale notice for Airth fields of James Henry estate

The Caledonian Mercury announces sale by voluntary roup of parts of land in the South Field of Airth belonging to the late James Henry. The notice states the property will be offered publicly, under the authority of the estate, and invites interested parties to attend the auction.

Airth James Henry

Lists of Names and Stocks From a 1760 Financial Page

A long faded list shows various addressees in letters to unknown persons and a dense stock and bond table. It includes names such as Al Sig Williams and Comp, Diegos, Monts, merchants like John Lane and William Phelps, and officials in the Inland Office. The financial section lists Bank stock and annuities with prices in pounds shillings and pence, plus exchange rates for Amsterdam, Paris, Cadiz, Madrid, Leghorn, and other ports as of Friday September 12, 1760.

Foreign Office al Sig Wilhiams and Comp Antonio Sig Michell Nils Nilsen Berry Luciado & Vital Diego de la Fuente Garcia Mont P. Taillett de Gano Mont Alexand Graham Oe Jean-Louis Robshaneff Abram le Boullanger Herriqué Dias da Silva Thomas Plelve Robert Freeman William Gilbert Eig

High water at Bondon Bridges records early morning levels

Meteorology notes indicate high water at Bondon Bridges with readings 31 minutes after 5 AM and 49 miles after midday. The reference marks suggest tide or river gauge measurements, highlighting hydrological activity in that region.

Bondon Bridges

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