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Tuesday.---A plate of £50, for four-year olds
Mr. Hodge’s brown colt Bramble
Mr. Blake’s brown colt Marechal
Mr. Bret’s bay Filly
Mr. Stroud’s brown colt Beau Clincher
Mr. Vernon’s chestnut colt Marius
Mr. Cumberland’s chestnut mare
Lord Millington’s grey mare Desdemona

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Fri 17 June
CRICKET
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On Friday the 1 of July, a MATCH at CRICKET will be played on CHAPEL
GREEN near this town, for a considerable sum; WOKINGHAM against
CHERTSEY!
Wokingham, June 14, 1774

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Fri 24 June
BERKSHIRE NEWS
WOKINGHAM, June 24
We hear from Portsmouth, that the ships of war appointed for a cruise from this port
are the Marlborough, Admiral Douglas; the Lenox, Capt. Moore; and the Egmont,
Capt. Elphinstone, who are to join four at Plymouth, if the wind permits: They are to
sail for Plymouth tomorrow.

One day last week Master Atkins, a young gentleman of Eton School, fell into the
river Thames and was drowned.
Friday last Mr. Clark, of Abingdon, in this County, was drowned by bathing in the
River Lea, near the bridge.

Wednesday a gipsey went into a farmer’s house at Chobham, and was employed by
the maid servant (the only person in the house at the time) to tell her fortune; the
young woman in the mean time was called out upon some business, when the fortune
teller robbed the house of a great quantity of wearing apparel, &c., with which she got
clear off.

Wednesday while one Field was at work in the brew-house of Mr. Wallen, of this
town, he fell from a ladder, broke his shoulder bone, and was otherwise much hurt.
His recovery is doubtful.

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Fri 1 July
BERKSHIRE NEWS
WOKINGHAM July 1
As many people may not thoroughly understand the Royal Proclamation relative to
the gold coin, and may be puzzled with the figures denoting penny-weight and grains
together with the immoderate length of it, we think the following few lines will make
it intelligible to the meanest capacity
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Until the 15 of next July all guineas, up to the year 1771, wanting less than a
shilling, will pass, and half guineas wanting less than sixpence. After that time they
will not be allowed to pass or be current in any payment whatsoever; and therefore

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