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Drawers, Bath Stove and other Grates, very good useful Kitchen Furniture, a Rotiseur
Royal Jack, &c. &c. a strong Cart H, a Tilted Cart and two Setts of Harness, a Rick of
exceeding good last Year’s Meadow Hag, some Dung, a Stone Roller, Garden
Utensils, &c.
The Furniture is in very good Condition and brought new about three Years since; it
may be viewed two Days preceding the Sale, and each Morning of Sale, which will
begin at Eleven o’Clock.
Catalogues may be had, in due Time, on the Premises, at the Bowling Green House
at Hurst, and of Francs Collins, Upholsterer and Auctioneer, at Wokingham.

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Mon 13 May 1776
MUSIC
On Monday in Whitsun-Week next, will be the ANNUAL MUSIC MEETING, at
the Town Hall in Wokingham, Berks, when will be given, by Mr. William Wheatley,
at the Rose and Bus Inn, in the Market Place, FOUR GUINEAS, to that Company
which best performs the three best Songs or Glees, in three or four Parts, and one
Catch.
No Wokingham Person will be admitted to sing for the above Prize, nor be an
Umpire. Each Company is desired to bring an Umpire, and deliver Copies of what
they intend to sing, to Mr. Wheatley, before Dinner, which will be on the Table before
Two o’Clock. No Person admitted to sing or be an Umpire who does not dine at the
Ordinary, and declare his Intention of singing before Dinner is over
No Objection to any Instruments accompanying the singing,
Several pieces of Music will be introduced between the singing, on a variety of
Instruments, Particulars of which will be advertised in our next.
The Evening to conclude with a BALL

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Mon 20 May 1776
At Whistley Park in the Parish of Hurst, Berks, five miles from Reading, three from
Wokingham. And two from Loddon-bridge, horses and other cattle will, during the
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summer season, be taken in to graze, from the 29 of May 1776 to the ensuing
Michaelmas day, horses at 2s, per week; yearling colts and yearling fillies 1s. 6d. per
week; cows and bullocks at 111. 9d. per week; but no cattle whatever will be taken in
for less time than the whole season, and they must be entered the first or second day
of opening.
A proper person will attend at the mansion house in the said park, to take in and
register the horses and cattle according to the conditions aforesaid. Neither he or any
person shall have authority to alter the conditions for grazing contained in this
advertisement
All money which shall be due for grazing as aforesaid, must be paid at the time or
immediately before the delivery of the respective horses or cattle out of the park.

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To be SOLD by AUCTION, by FRANCIS COLLINS, on Monday the 27 instant,
Some neat household furniture of a gentleman leaving his house at Shute-end,
Wokingham; consisting of bedsteads with crimson moreen and other furniture, goose
feather beds, blankets, counterpanes,, &c, a neat mahogany bureau, ditto chest of
drawers, a large mahogany square dining table, a card ditto, pier and dressing glasses,
a pair of mahogany elbow chairs with horsehair backs & seats and brass nailed, neat
Bath and other stove grates, neat shovels, tongs and fenders, good kitchen furniture, a
good copper that will boil 36 gallons, together with brewing utensils, &c. To be

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