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Will be held at the Roe Buck, on Friday 22d instant where subscriptions of 5s. each
will be received till the day of showing. Each person to show ten whole blooms of ten
different sorts; to prove on oath that they are from plants of their own property, being
in their own possession from March last.
Tickets 2s. 6d. each, which will entitle the bearer to his dinner and 1s. worth of liquor.
Stewards Mr. Simons, sen.
Mr. Watts ……

A BANK
Will shortly be opened under the firm of The WOKINGHAM and READING BANK
and the Bills will be payable at Reading, Wokingham, Wallingford, Windsor,
Basingstoke, and London.
Bills will be discounted at Three and a Half per Cent, and business transacted with
the utmost punctuality and strictest honour.

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Mon 13 Aug
On Sunday morning a duel was fought in a field near Staines, between two officers
belonging to a regiment encamped on Bagshot Heath, at which place the
misunderstanding originated, in consequence of the one imputing to the other
mismanagement in the direction of some military operations with their respective
companies. They met, attended by their seconds, about six o’clock: the ground being
measured, at the distance of twelve paces, each party took his station, and fired at the
same instant, but without injury to either. The seconds interposing both parties left the
ground, and returned to the encampment.

At the assizes for the county of Surrey, this week, that notorious villain, well-known
by the name of Jumping Joe, for house-breaking, was capitally convicted, and
received sentence of death, as were five others for divers offences.

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Mon 10 Sept
THE STATUTE FAIR AT WOKINGHAM, for hiring Servants, buying and fetling
Horses, Cows, Sheep, and different sorts of Merchandize, will be held as last year, on
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Old Michaelmas day, the 10 of October, 1792.
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N.B. The Fair on the 21 of April, as usual.
WOKINGHAM, Sept. 1, 1792.

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Mon 1 Oct
WOKINGHAM POST--COACH
Sets off every Sunday morning at ten o’clock, and every other morning at nine
(Saturday excepted) from the Rose Into the Bolt and Tun, Fleet-street, London, and
returns from thence every morning precisely at ten o’clock.
Calls at the Gloucester Coffee-House, Old White Horse Cellar and Black Bear,
Piccadilly, both going in and coming out of London, for the convenience of those who
reside at the well end of the town.
N.B. No parcel above five pounds value will be accounted for, if lost, unless entered
as such and paid for accordingly.
R. WEALE Proprietor returns thanks to his friends and the public for their past
favours, and hopes for a continuance of them, which it will be his study to merit.

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