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SHIP, near the CHURCH, WOKINGHAM
TO be SOLD by AUCTION
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On Tuesday the 19 of August, 1788, and the following day. All the HOUSEHOLD
FURNITURE, Linen, China, belonging to the late Mr. JAMES BEAKHURST,
deceased; consisting of four-post bedsteads with wheels and other furniture, goose
and other feather beds, mattresses, blankets, large quilts, mahogany bureau, dining
and tea tables, ditto, walnut-tree escritoires with plate-glass doors, pier and dressing
glasses, an exceeding good eight-day repeating clock, a large quantity of very good
quart, pint, half-pint pewter mugs, requisite kitchen furniture, 20 pair of sheets, table
cloths, and napkins, a quantity of dry turves, peat, wood, and hoop chips, a fine large
sow to pig and two store pigs &c. Also sundry articles of grocery.
To be viewed the day before and morning of sale, which will begin at eleven
o’clock.---Catalogues to be had in due time at the place of sale, and of the Auctioneer,
Wokingham.
N.B. The creditors of the said James Beakhurst are desired to send in accounts of
their respective demands to Mr. John Stanaway, of Binfield, Berks, to the Executor, or
to Mr. Lawrence, Attorney in Wokingham.

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Mon 15 Sept
WOKINGHAM, Sept. 9, 1788
All people who are indebted to the late Mr. John Chaplin of the New Rose Inn,
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Wokingham, are desired to pay the same, on, or before, the 20 day of October next,
to Mrs. Chaplin, at the Rose Inn, in the Market Place, Executrix, jointly with others to
the will of her late husband, and who is thereby authorised to receive the same. And
those who have any claim on the said Mr. John Chaplin, may receive their money by
applying as above.

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Mon 22 Sept
TO JOURNEYMEN BRAZIERS
WANTED, a steady, sober, honest, WORKING BRAZIER, who fully understands his
business and is a very good workman. If he knows the tin business the more
agreeable.
A person so qualified may find constant employ and good wages, by applying to
Mr. Chaplin, Working Brazier and Ironmonger, Market-place, Wokingham, Berks.

WOKINGHAM, BERKS
THE Public are hereby requested to take notice that the FAIR will be held in the
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Market-place on the 10 of October, (old Michaelmas day) to be continued yearly on
that day for the sale of Cheese, all kinds of Merchandize, Cattle, &c, and also for the
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hiring of servants, and not on the 9 of October, as inserted in the lists of fairs.
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N.B. The fair on the 21 of April will be held yearly, as usual.

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Mon 13 Oct
FOREST ASSEMBLY
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The next meeting will be on Wednesday 15 inst in the TOWN HALL, Wokingham
Subscribers tickets are ready to be delivered.

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Mon 27 Oct
WOKINGHAM, October 25, 1788

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