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BUSH INN, WOKINGHAM.
TO be LETT, and entered on immediately, the BUSH INN at Wokingham, now in the
occupation of William King; consisting of a great variety of useful rooms, and
stabling for a great number of horses.
For particulars, enquire on the premises, or at Messrs. Patey and Co’s Brewhouse in
Reading.

Mon 12th Oct 1778
WOKINGHAM
To be sold by auction, by Mr. HOLTON, at the dwelling-house of Messrs. Monk
and Parker, grocers, pawnbrokers, drapers, and dealers in new ad old cloathes, and co-
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partners, bankrupts in Wokingham, Berks, on Tuesday, the 13 instant, and the six
following days, Sunday excepted, (by order of the assignees) All the STOCK, in
TRADE and HOUSHOLD FURNITURE of the said bankrupts:---Consisting of linen
and woollen cloths, Bath beavers, men’s, and boy’s apparel of all sorts, new and
second hand, a large assortment of new buckskin breeches, hats stockings, camblets,
callimancoes, prunellas, durants, jeans and sustains, Irish, dowlas, flannels, bed-
ticking, handkerchief, printed linens and cottons, sheets, table cloths, and napkins,
new and old, blankets, quilts, counterpanes and coverlid, metal and silver watches,
buckles, spoons, cream-pots, &c.
All the shelves, counters, glass-cases, &c. Also all the neat Houshold Furniture,
consisting of four-post bedsteads in linen and stuff furniture, exceeding good feather-
beds, mattresses, bedding, carpets, chairs, tables, an exceeding good eight-day clock
and thirty-hour ditto, Bath stoves, a good kitchen range, a wind-up jack, pewter, a
brewing copper, coolers, several good beer casks, a large oval water tub and spouts, a
tilted cart and harness, a mare and colt, a black pony, some old and new hay, and
several other useful articles, which the catalogues will express; together with a Lease
of a Close of Meadow Land in the parish of Wokingham aforesaid, containing three
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acres, for the term of 7 years, which commenced the 10 of October, 1776, at the
yearly rent of £6. And also the Lease of the House, good accustomed shop and
garden, now in the occupation of the said Messrs. Monk and Parker, situate in Rose-
street, Wokingham aforesaid, for the term of 21 years, of which about 11 years are
now unexpired, at the very low yearly rent of £3 9s.
The goods to be viewed the day before and each morning of the sale. Catalogues to
be then had on the premises, at the upper Ship, Reading; the Crown and Windsor; and
at Mr. Houlton’s in Broad-street, Wokingham.
Sale to begin each day at 12 o’clock.
All persons who have pledged any goods with the said bankrupts are desired, by the
assignees, to take notice that unless the goods are fetched away before the day of the
sale they will then be disposed of with the other effects.
For further particulars, apply to the Auctioneer, or Mr. Round at Windsor, attorney
for the assignees

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28 Dec 1778
WOKINGHAM STAGE WAGGON
William King, late London Carrier, at the Bush Inn, Wokingham, begs leave to
return his sincere thanks to the public in General for their countenance and support,
whilst in that belief, and informs them that he has disposed of his Old Original Stage
Waggon, formerly BLANDFORD’S unto Mr. THOMAS HILL, Carrier, at Winkfield;

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