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On Tuesday the 27 of this instant October, at Wm. Fouch’s. the Red Lion,
Wokingham.
THE UNDERWOOD of Peeblestone Coppice, eight years’ growth, being in the
Foot-way leading from Wokingham to Binfield.
To be Lett, a Currier’s Working-shop, with two Drying Lofts,&c. in Wokingham;
Also Utensils in the Currying Business, to be sold. For Particulars enquire of MR.
SAM WALLER, o f the said Town

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Mon 2 Nov.
To the PUBLIC
WOKINGHAM, Oct. 29, 1772
As a proper caution to Tenants, I think it no more than doing the world a piece of
justice to communicate to the Public an instance of a voracious savage, or landlord,
who resides in the Market-place, Wokingham, who let his house for one year certain;
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the person who took it commenced Tenant the 25 of March 1772. The Landlord who
by persuasions of some informal being, or I believe from his own diabolical heart, on
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the 9 of October last, takes out a distress for half a year’s rent,nonly due at
Michaelmas lst, without so much as once asking the said Tenant for the rent: The
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aforesaid Landlord again on the 27 October, because the Tenant had not satisfied
him for a few old fixtures, he the said Landlord proceeds against his Tenant by virtue
of a Windsor writ, for that debt, only 50S. So that the whole expenses, quite
unnecessary, which he has put his Tenant to, amount to near upon Ten pounds, for the
small consideration of /six pounds, nine shillings. By such virulent and illegal
treatment, the Tenant suffers the loss of his friends and trade, by such means his
creditors fall upon him at once; and what is most valuable and dear to him, such a
miscreant brings an infamy upon his tenant’s reputation and character. I will leave it
to the impartial public, whether such an oppressing blood-sucker does not deserve to
be universally exposed.
MODERATOR

1773
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Mon 4 Jan
AVERAGE PRICES OF GRAIN
At WOKINGHAM
Wheat £15 12s. 0d. to £16 05s. 0d. per Load
Oats 22s. 6d. to 25s. 0d.
Barley 13s. 0d. to 36s.
Beans 40s 0d. to 45s. 0d.
Pease 48s. 0d. to 50s. 0d.

WOKINGHAM, January 16
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Mon 18 Jan
For this week past we have been pestered with one of those immigrants, who under
the pretence of selling cheap, as the effects of a bankrupt, &c. enter into towns, and do
the greatest injury to the settled trader, by taking away the ready money, while the
other is obliged to give credit. It is amazing that any persons will be mean enough to
encourage such hawkers, as the profit on drapery is too small to allow them fairly to
undersell the honest trader; To the sensible they may sell bargains, but the unwary
must balance the account.

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