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I am, Gentlemen,
Your most obedient,
Humble Servant,
JONATHAN GODDARD.
Early Hatch, Nov. 29, 1773.
N.B. The election will be on Monday the 3rd of January, 1774

ALL Persons who have any Claim or Demand upon the Estate of MR. DANIEL
BEARD, late of Wokingham, deceased, are desired to deliver in the same to Mrs.
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GIRDLER, the Administratrix, on or before the 26 of February next, in order to their
being satisfied in due time. And all others who are indebted to the Estate of the said
Mr, DANIEL BEARD, are required to pay the same as aforesaid.

This is to give NOTICE
THAT there will be two BULLS BAITED in the Market-place, Wokingham, on
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WEDNESDAY the 22 of December instant.
St. Thomas’s Day happening on a Tuesday, the Market-day of Wokingham
aforesaid, has occasioned that sport to be postponed till the next day.

1774
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Fri 14 Jan
To be SOLD by AUCTION,
By FRANCIS COLLINS,
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On Tuesday the 18 of January inst.’
At Matthew’s Green, near Wokingham, between the
Hours of two and four in the afternoon,
ALL THE HUSBANDRY UTENSILS and LIVE STOCK of Mr. NATHANIEL
BASNETT, deceased. Consisting of wagons, carts, plows, harrows, drags, a wind fan,
and also four good draught horses, sheep, lambs, nine or ten loads of exceeding good
meadow hay , and several other articles in the farming business.

At WOKINGHAM, BERKS, Young Gentlemen are boarded, and instructed in the
Languages, Writing, Merchants Accompte, and other parts of useful learning, by the
Rev. RICHARD DAVIS.
The terms are twenty pounds a year, and two guineas entrance.
Mr. Davis will pay the greatest attention to the morals, as well as the literary
improvement, of the young Gentlemen committed to his care.
Wokingham is a healthful and pleasant Market-town, situated in Windsor Forest, at
thirty-two miles distance from Hyde Park Corner.
Coaches every day to and from London.

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Mon 21 Jan
A NEW WOKINGHAM MACHINE
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Set out on Monday the 31 of January 1774 from the Black Lion, in Water-lane,
London, at eight o’clock in the morning, to the House of Mr. John Harris, the King’s
Head Inn in the Market-place, Wokingham, and will continue to do so every Monday,
Wednesday and Friday during the winter season, and will return from thence every
Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday at the same time.

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