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Newspaper
Public Ledger
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Sep 23, 1760
Page
4
The document records licensing of the Public Ledger and forbids reprinting, with a list of notices from the Gazette including sales of ship stores, sugars and indigo, lost items, and miscellaneous adverts. It also lists parliamentary style notices and calls for creditors, couriers, and public notices across London and Norfolk with dates and locations.
Ipswich Journal lists property lettings and sales in Suffolk and Essex plus a note of ship arrivals and departures. It includes auctions, bankruptcies, and creditors notices, along with market prices for wheat and other goods at Mark Lane and listings of stock prices and foreign office names.
Notice lists a missing apprentice William White and his master John Lan den, a silver watch by Chappel, a silver snart mug, sundry wearing apparel, a steward or butler, and a reward for William Gafen, charged with felony, with his person described.
The fragment references Guadaloupe Sugar by Candle, China ware and tea goods, and other sundry items. It mentions a widow named Smith of Hoxton S Square and notes about persons related to Ann and potential prent for acting. The text is a partial OCR of a historical catalog page with several items and names.
A September 22 page lists numerous stakes from freeholds and leaseholds in Winchester and Abingdon to properties in Middlesex and London. It includes auctions of households, offices, inclosed estates, brewing utensils, wharfs, and land, with notices of hires and appointments such as clergy, chaplains, stationers, and a hunter servant.
Notice states that James Stewart deserted from the 14th Regiment of Foot along with James Edwards and Richard Wingate from the same regiment. Descriptions of the persons are given and rewards offered for apprehending them.
A Bristol sale notice lists items including three hundred pieces by Audion mm and sundry goods, plus separate lots of premises at Littltton upon Severing Doynton and Hanham. Also a large house on Castleditch and a dwelling on St Thomas's Street. A note mentions that Elizabeth the wife or Nicholas her tree allegedly eloped.
Notice is given of planned sales and property actions including a public house at Clifton and a dwelling house at Castle-freet. Details are fragmented but indicate a formal public notice process and named locations.
Notices announce lettings and freehold and feoffment holdings across Bernard Cattle and Stawe fordham in Northumberland, West Marten and Wreigt hill in Northumberland, East Matfeas in Northampton, with a farm listing at East Matfeas. The items cover estateholds, freeholds, and tenancies including fifteen couples of harriers.
Notice is given that there are to be sold two small arms one at Newhottle and the other at Fenehbow Barks in the County of Durham. Auction or sale details are not fully clear in the fragment but identify locations and item type.
A list of properties including a messuage at Gresford Denbighshire Sutton estate and a house with garden in Chester. Also named are seven deserters from independent companies led by Capt. Fawnefend and Capt. Jenkins, with rewards offered for apprehension, plus a footman and driver of a post chariot at Chester.
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