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Toutley Hall, Berks, by the side of the Forest Road, leading from King-street to Bill
Hill, about a mile and a half from Wokingham. To be sold by auction by Mr. Creaker,
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on Friday, March 22 , 1822 at eleven o’clock, on the premises.
All the genteel household furniture and Effects of a Gentleman leaving Toutley
Hall.

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Mon 22 April
The Recordership of the ancient Town of Wokingham, in this county, having
become vacant by the resignation of Giffin Wilson, esq. of Lincoln Inn, the
Corporation on Friday last unanimously elected John Roberts, esq., to that highly
respectable situation. This unsolicited appointment by a body of his fellow townsmen
with whom he has been associated for forty years, must be gratifying to the feelings of
the esteemed individual, who has been the object of their choice.

Mon 2nd Sept
Saturday morning last the Wokingham wagon was robbed between Egham and
Virginia Water, of a hamper of wine, 2 boxes of candles, a mat of beds, and a large
bundle of leather. Five fellows in two carts were observed to drive by the wagon, and
the wheels were tracked into a field, where it is supposed they remained concealed till
the wagon passed and then perpetrated the robbery. The villains were seen by a
country boy in a field in Buckinghamshire the same morning drunk, quarrelling and
throwing the empty bottles at each other.

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Mon 2 Dec
On Saturday last twelve men, widowers, all resident in the parish of Wokingham
dined together at the sign of the Sedan Chair, whose united ages amounted to 867
years.

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Mon 7 June
A Benefit Club is established at Hurst and Wokingham.

On Tuesday Inst. last at Wokingham, Lacy Hibbins, the toll collector, at Coppige
Beach Lane Gate, in the Windsor Forest turnpike road; was convicted in the penalty
of forty shillings before H. St. John, esq.,--Garth, esq.,--and Brown, esq., on the
complaint of W.F.A. Dillane, esq., for taking a greater toll than the Local Act
authorised, the extra half tolls, which should not have been collected on that road,
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after the 1 of January 1824, have thus been extracted from the public for the last five
months, sanctioned by a board with a scale of tolls, put up at every gate on that road,
by order of the Trustees, whose attention in their duty, and the objects of their trust,
the public will duly appreciate.

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Mon 30 Aug
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Wednesday the 18 inst. Wm. Sexton, who for some years has travelled the country
selling nets took up his abode for the night at a lodging house in Wokingham, he
retired to rest about six o’clock in the evening; about nine two more trampers arrived,
one of whom was put in the same bed with Sexton. This man says he recollects

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