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STOLEN, on Wednesday night last, from the grounds at Mr. James Webb, an aged
BLACK CART GELDING, about fourteen hands and an inch high, has two white
legs behind, and lost the off eye.
At the same time was stolen off the common, a Black CROPPED MARE, seven
years old, fourteen hands and an inch high, strained in the off leg behind, which has
been blistered, and is now grizzled up to the hock, the hoof shrunk; and had on a
pointed shoe.
Whoever will give intelligence so that the offenders may be convicted, shall receive
a reward of Ten Guineas, of the above-named.

nd
Mon 22 Dec
BULL BAITING
This is to give notice, that on Monday next, (Sunday being St. Thomas’s Day) TWO
BULLS will be baited, in the MARKET-PLACE, WOKINGHAM, according to
antient custom.
One Bull will be at the stake exactly at 11 o’clock.

HOUSES, &c.
To be sold, on the Banks of the Kennet, in the town of Reading, a commodious
DWELLING HOUSE, with every conveniency and office for a genteel family:
garden, walls well cloth’d with fruit trees, a large orchard, well stock’d and fenc’d,
Dutch barn, stabling, coach-house, granary, and other out-buildings adjoining; a large
malt-house and tenement, with seven other tenements well occupied and in good
repair, on the Seven Bridges. Likewise to be sold, in Peak-street, Wokingham, Berks,
three Tenements, a barn, gardens, &c. lett to Mrs. Chaplin, till Christmas; a field and
barn adjoining to the town, close to Rose-street; three Tenements occupied, and two
untenanted in Rose-street, with gardens, &c.---Further particulars a future week.

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th
Mon 19 January
READING
At the quarter sessions of the peace for this county, held on Tuesday last at our
Townhall, John King, for stealing 14 fowls, the property of Edward Lane of
Wokingham; and Joel Blackman, for destroying two timber trees, the property of
James Colleton, esq; of Hurst, were severely sentenced to be imprisoned nine months;
the three last of King’s confinement, and the two last of Blackman’s to be in a solitary
cell.---Martha Martin for stealing 11 pigs, the property of Wm. Merredew, of Clewer,
to be imprisoned six months in a solitary cell..---John Collins and John Spokes, for
stealing 10 fowls, the property of Thomas Child, of Streatley, to be imprisoned three
months, the first in a solitary cell.---James Douglas, for stealing two fowls, the
property of John Caton, of Thatcham, to be imprisoned three months, the first in a
solitary cell. He is also bound in a recognizance to keep the peace towards his
prosecutor, himself in £20, and two sureties in £10, each, as he was heard to make use
of threatening language after he was convicted.

In FOURTEEN HOURS from Bath to London
The MERCURY
ROYAL BLUE POST-COACH, with Four Horses, to carry Four Insides, from the
Christopher and Shakespear and Greyhound Inns in Bath, at seven o’clock, every
Monday, Wednesday, and Friday mornings; and from the Saracen’s Head, Snow- hill,

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