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Newspaper
Public Ledger
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Sep 19, 1761
Page
4
The Public Ledger advertises licensing for printing and vending, lists items for sale by auction such as ships and a water works, and details eighteenth century notices including coronation seats, missing items, wanted employment, and property lettings. It catalogs ships, prizes, auctions, lost and found items, and classified notices across London.
Notices announce auctions and lettings across Derbyshire Lancashire and York?shire including freehold estates near Chapel on Doe Frith Rainow and Titherington two messuages with land at Hanging Lees and Butterworth several farms near Manchester Holcroft Harper's Hay and Lordship Gloverstone plus houses in Alport Lane and other parcels. Also listed are creditor notices for John Crompton deceased properties in Grantham Coleby and Wisbech and a range of public roup sales including land tenements and timber with prices and dates noted.
List of books and pamphlets including Voltaire remonstrance against Jesuits dated May 1761, an ode to the fleet and royal yacht for the Princess of Mecklenburg to the Queen of Great Britain, and a poetical epistle to a student in Christ Church. plus marine traffic notes listing ships entered Inwards on Sept 7 and clears Outwards on Sept 17 with various names and origins.
An advertisement-promotional notice touts a liquid dissolvent made from marine shell preparations to dissolve urinary stones and gravel. It claims safety for the eye and nervous membranes, describes mechanism with cementing oils and salts, and offers bottles at 15 6d from a Strand address and Bateman’s warehouse. It adds a patentees’ notice and royal patent details.
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