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Mr. WHEATLEY
PROPRIETOR of the
OLD MACHINE
From the Old Rose Inn, in the Market Place, Wokingham;
Begs leave to inform the Ladies and Gentlemen, and Piblick in general, that his
Machine is removed from the Bolt and Tun Inn, in Fleet-street, to the Black Lion Inn,
in Water-lane, Fleet-street; and will set out from his house every Monday,
Wednesday, and Friday morning, at eight o’clock, to the above inn, and return from
thence every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday morning, at the same hour.
Prices as usual, and stops going up and coming down at the usual places.
N.B. Mr. Wheatley returns thanks to the ladies and gentlemen, and the public in
general, for their past favours, and hopes for the continuance of them.

READING MERCURY 1776-79

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Mon 19 Feb.1776
WOKINGHAM, Feb 10, 1776
THOMAS CHARLES CRUTTWELL thinks it necessary to inform the Public and in
particular the Friends of his late Mother to continue the Liquor Trade, and the
Business of a Bookseller and Stationer in the same manner as during her life, and
most respectfully entreats the continuance of their Favours, which he will take every
opportunity to merit by a strict Attention to their commands.
N.B. his Rums and Foreign Brandy are really neat as imported, and all his
other liquors are inferior to none being the best that can be procured.
Country Schoolmasters and shops served with books, Paper and all other kinds of
Stationery, at the lowest Prices.---A circulating Library on the usual Terms of
Subscription.---All the advertised medicines, genuine from the Proprietors, &c.

TO be SOLD, the improved Lease of a small genteel house, situate on Toutley
Common, within one mile of Wokingham, five from Reading, and near Bill Hill,
Berks. Four years of Lease are unexpired at Lady day next. Rent only £14. per
Annum.
The premises consist of a Parlour, Hall and large Kitchen on the Ground Floor, a
Drawing Room and three Bed-chambers, a Coach House and very good stabling for
three Horses and other Conveniences; two Acres of good Meadow Land adjoining,
The Furniture which is very good almost new, to be had at a fair Appraisement.
Particulars may be had at the Mount Coffee House, Grosvenor Street, London; or of
Francis Collins, Upholder and Auctioneer at Wokingham.

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Mon 26 Feb 1776
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To be Sold by AUCTION by FRANCIS COLLINS, on Thursday the 7 and Friday
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the 8 of March 1776 all the genuine elegant Household Furniture of Captain
LESTER, at his House at Toutley, near Wokingham, Berks: Consisting of Four soft
Bedsteads with fine Check and other Furniture, good Goose Feather Beds, Blankets,
Quilts, Counterpanes, Mattresses &c, a neat Mahogany Press Bedstead, a ditto Sopha
covered with Crimson Moreen, double brass nailed, Mahogany card and Pembroke
tables, Fine wood, ditto Dining and Tea tables, a Side Board Table ditto, a handsome
small Mahogany Writing Desk on a Frame, s ditto Wone Cooper, Mahogany Chairs,
an eight-day repeating Table Clock. Pier and Dressing Glasses, Wiscot Chest of

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