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frustrate and confound all those counsels which tend to the humiliation of
monarchical power in France.
It is said that the merchants of Great-Britain, on account of the president perilous
situation of French credit, have just obtained an order for furnishing the whole
Spanish Flota with woollens.

READING
FOREST ASSEMBLY
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At the TOWN-HAL, Wokingham, will be on Thursday the 6 of November, 1789
Second Assembly, Wednesday-December 9,
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Third “ Wednesday, January 6 1790
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Fourth, “ Wednesday, February 3
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Fifth “ Wednesday, March 3
Sixth, “ Wednesday, April 7
Subscribers tickets are ready for delivery

TO be LETT, or SOLD; fit for the immediate reception of a family, A genteel
FREEHOLD DWELLING-HOUSE, consisting of five rooms on a floor with
convenient out-offices, and a large garden, situated in Rose-street, Wokingham,
Berks.
For further particulars, apply to Mrs. Winder, at Mr. Bartlett’s, Market-place,
Wokingham.

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Mon 2 Nov
WOKINGHAM STAGE WAGGON
To be sold by private contract the WOKINGHAM old and well-established STAGE
WAGGON, HORSES, HARNESSES, STABLE UTENSILS, &C. The stock consists
of one good six-inch wheel, and three and three narrow wheel wagons (one of which
is almost new) one cart, one wheelbarrow, seven strong horses, with harness
complete. For further particulars apply to Mr. Bennett, carpenter, Wokingham, or to
Mr. Clinch, Pack Horse, Turnham Green, who will treat for the same.

1790
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Mon 4 Jan
All persons who have demands on the late JOSEPH WALLEY, or the previous
proprietors of the Wokingham Road Wagon are ordered to bring in their accounts to
Mr. John Bennett, carpenter, at Wokingham; and those persons indebted to the said
Proprietors, are desired forthwith to pay the same to the said Mr. John Bennett, who is
fully empowered to settle

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Mon 3 May
READING
The ridiculous rustic custom of singing, (or rather gaping) for prizes of plate, seems
nearly buried in oblivion; the meeting of this kind, at the Town-hall of Wokingham,
on Tuesday last, being attended only, by the different pitch pipe parties of the
surrounding parishes. This is the more to be lamented when the entertainment was so
highly embellished with the “Sublime and beautiful” A (volunteer) love song, by a
clown; two hunting songs, and a third, richly tinctured with the “rites of Venus,” by a
lady, (for the punch ladle, without a competitor.) A trio of tenor, bass, and
unaccountable, made highly discordant and entertaining by the effect of

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