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An Ordinary will be on the table at one o’clock, and no person admitted to sing. Or
be an Umpire, but who declares for singing before dinner.
N.B. No objection to any instruments to accompany the Singers.

To be SOLD by HAND
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On TUESDAY the 17 of May 1774, between three and five in the afternoon, at the
Brewhouse in Wokingham, lately in the occupation of Mr. Simon Houlton, deceased
A BREWING COPPER, COOLERS, BACKS, and other brewing utensils, late of the
said Simon Houlton, Also some Cake and Household Furniture
N.B. The said Brewhouse with a Storehouse adjoining are to be let.
For particulars enquire of Mr. BENNET, Carpenter; or of Mr. EDWARD WISE,
Jun. Attorney at Law, at Wokingham.

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Fri 13 May
BERKSHIRE NEWS
WOKINGHAM, May 13th.
On Wednesday as three boys were cutting heath at Frimley, one of them received a
dangerous wound in his side from a hook, which first pierced through a thick foul
weather coat. It is imagined that he cannot live. Neither the wounded boy, nor the
others will discover how the accident happened.

Last week while the driver of a wagon from Bush to London was asleep on the
shafts, the turnpike gate near Twyford being open, the horses went through, and
bruised the poor man’s leg in a shocking manner against the side of the gate. He was
carried to a house in Twyford, where he expired a few hours afterwards.

Lat week two principal farmers near Newbury quarrelled at a public-house in that
town which occasioned a most severe battle, that lasted upwards of forty minutes.
They were so much bruised that one of them died the next day, and the other is so ill,
that it is thought he cannot recover.

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Fri 20 May
Monday last a servant of Mr. Ilton, of Woodley, getting betwixt two stone horses
while at plow, the horses took fright, and dragged the poor man a considerable
distance before they were stopped. He is much bruised, but there is hopes for his
recovery.

On Saturday last one Pigott, servant to Mr. Wenman, of Bullmarsh, dropt down
dead while he was threshing in the barn

Monday se’nnight was married at Ansford, Wilts, one Corp, a gentleman’s servant,
to Christiana Speed. Soon after the ceremony, in the midst of a joyous company, the
bridegroom was seized with an apoplectic fit, and died immediately.

Tuesday se’nnight died, after languishing a fortnight in great agony, a child of Mr.
Lawrence, near Chichester. Her death was occasioned by the carelessness of the
servant’s leaving her in the kitchen, when going to the fire, it catched her cloaths, and
before any assistance could be afforded her, she was burnt in a shocking manner.

The same day a person fell from the quay at Gosport, and was drowned.

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