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Mon 24 March
WOKINGHAM, BERKS
Selling under a Commission of Bankruptcy, the STOCK in TRADE, of Mr. George
Chase. Woollen and Linen-Draper, Haberdasher, Mercer, Hosier, &c. consisting of
varied articles in the above branches, which will be disposed of at reduced prices,
considerably under prime cost.
N.B. The House and Shop to be Lett.

BERKS
TO be SOLD AT AUCTION by MR. KING
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At the King’s Head Inn, in Wokingham, Berks, on Friday the 28 day of March,
1794, at two o’clock in the afternoon, (subject to conditions to be then and there
produced.
A FREEHOLD ESTATE situate in the Market-place, Wokingham: comprising a
good dwelling-house and good accustomed cooper’s shop, barn, stable, cart-house,
fuel-house, and other necessary outbuildings, large garden, outlet and yard, with a
communication therefrom to the street by a gateway; now in the occupation of Mr.
Robert Virmdell, cooper, for, the remainder of a term of years, which will expire at
Midsummer, 1795 at a very low rent of £13 per annum.
Further particulars may be known by application to Mr. Raggett, attorney at law, or
the Auctioneer, at Odiham, and the tenant will shew the premises.

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Mon 28 April
WOKINGHAM, APRIL 19, 1794
Roach, Draper and Warehouseman, respectfully informs the ladies, gentlemen, and
the public in general, that he has taken that well-known Shop (which, with the room
adjoining, is fitting up as a warehouse), in the Market-place, late in the occupation of
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Mr. GEORGE CHASE, to be opened on Monday the 28 instant, with a large
assortment of Drapery, Mercery, Hosiery, and other goods, to be found at the present
reduced London prices. His intention of discounting the principal part of his goods,
for the purpose of selling very low, puts it out of his power to credit. Those who are
pleased to favour him with their custom, will soon be convinced of the advantage of
ready money, as the quality and cheapness of his goods will be more than adequate to
credit.

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Mon 23 June
LONDON, Tuesday, June 17
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(Glorious 1 of June Naval battle)
The number of killed and wounded on board the six French ships brought by Lord
Howe into port, greatly exceeds the whole number killed and wounded throughout the
British fleet. When to this we add those sunk in the Vengeur and Jacobin, the latter
alone probably near 1,000, with the killed and wounded in the ships which made their
escape, the loss of lives, on the part of the French, appears to have been dreadful.
Reckoning also the prisoners brought in, the late engagement, on a moderate
computation from the circumstances already known, must have cost the enemy ten
thousand men.
On board the Thunderer who, however, took a very conspicuous part in the
engagement, not a man was hurt. She dismasted two ships in the late action, and in the
first ran up along side of the Revolutionaire, who cryed out “She had struck,” and told

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