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Mr. A. Boult was robbed a short time since, as mentioned in this paper. Such
circumstance giving him just cause of apprehension, he very luckily possessed
presence of mind to call at the Shoulder of Mutton near Binfield turnpike, and leaving
two guineas and his watch with the landlord, he proceeded on his way home, but on
the hill, in the dark part of the turnpike road, he was unexpectedly tripped up by the
men before mentioned, who had concealed themselves: but upon rifling his pockets
and finding no booty, they complimented him with some very emphatical kicks on the
rotundity, as a reward for their disappointment.

WOKINGHAM, BERKS
TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION
By CHARLES BENWELL
On the premises, by order of the Sheriff of Berks, under an Execution, on
th
Wednesday the 19 day of March 1788, and the following day,---All the very best
HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, Plate, Linen, China, and Glass, valuable Fixtures,
Horses, Chaise and Harnesses Foreign. Wines, Spirituous Liquors, and Cyder;
together with a seventeen year’s Lease of the Premises, called the OLD ROSE INN,
in the occupation of Mr. THOMAS LAMPARD.
The furniture comprises four-post bedsteads, with red and white cotton, check, and
other furniture, festoon window curtains, 11 goose and other beds, mattresses,
blankets, counterpanes and quilts, floor and bedside carpets, pier and dressing glasses,
two best mahogany press; bedsteads with furniture, handsome mahogany tables,
chairs, double chest of drawers, bureaux, 30 pairs of sheets, candlesticks, coffee pots,
table and other spoons, a great variety of china, glass and Queen’s ware; an excellent
modern kitchen range, smokejack, copper, Bath stoves, and every requisite of good
kitchen furniture, a time-piece, &c.---Four very good post-horses, a neat post-chaise,
coach and chaise harness. Fine brandy, rums, arrack, foreign and common gin,
peppermint, usquebaugh, old hock, tent, medicine, claret, cyder, and other effects.
To be viewed the day preceding and morning of sale, which will begin each day at
eleven, and the Lease of the Premises will be sold at one o’clock the first day.
Catalogues to be had at the place of sale; Stag and Hounds, Binfield; Sun,
Maidenhead; White Hart, Newbury; and of Mr. Benwell, appraiser and auctioneer,
Reading.

At Aylesbury Assizes, four prisoners were capitally convicted, and received
‘sentence of death’, viz. Nicholas Day, a farmer of Braggenham, in Bucks, for the
murder of his wife; Richard West For sheep stealing; John Davis (alias Rat) for horse
stealing; and Jonathan Letts for house breaking, at Olney. Day was ordered to be
executed on Thursday last, and his body to be afterwards dissected and anatomized,
Davis (alias Rat) and Letts were also left for execution; but West was reprieved before
the Judge left Aylesbury.
Henry Gurney, for breaking into the house of Thomas Strange, of Edlesborough,
and stealing thereout a quantity of wearing apparel; William Buckley, for stealing a
fowl; Samuel Smith, for stealing two flitches of bacon, and sundry other articles, out
of the bake-house of Thomas Smith, of Olney; and Robert Howard, for stealing a
damask napkin, a table-cloth, & c. out of the dwelling house of John Fisher at Marlow
common, were severally found guilty, and sentenced to be transported, the former for
fourteen and the three latter for seven years.---Susannah Reynolds charged with the
murder of her own child, was discharged by the court, it appearing that she was
insane.—Thomas Redman, charged with horse-stealing; Richard Parker, senior,

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