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Mon 22 Feb 1779
WANTED, in a very small family, Two Women Servants, one as a Chamber Maid,
who can work well with her needle, clear-starching, &c, and clean the best part of a
small house, the other Maid to understand plain-cooking well, and clean all the lower
part of the house, and stand to the washing when it is done at home.---Both must have
good characters from their last places, for being perfectly sober, honest, and cleanly
both in person and business ,diligent and of good temper; ages about 30, and must
have had the small-pox.---Enquire of Mr. Trickey, linen-draper, Wokingham, or of the
Printer.

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Mon 22 March 1779
WOKINGHAM
TO be LETT, at an easy rent, and entered on Immediately. A large commodious
DWELLING HOUSE, very pleasantly situated in the center of Broad-street;
consisting of three parlours, a large hall, butler’s pantry, china room, kitchen,
servants’ hall, &c. on the ground floor; with an exceeding good cellar under ditto; on
the second floor, four bed-chambers, a large dining room, and dressing rooms; over
which are four good servants’ bed-chambers: likewise a brew-house, wash-house, and
laundry, a coach-house for two carriages, good stabling for six horses, a garden
upwards of half an acre walled in and cloathed with the best of fruit trees; also
adjoining, half an acre of pasture ground; with or without it may be had five acres of
excellent meadow ground near the town.---There are four years of the lease unexpired
at Midsummer next.
Particulars may be had by applying to Mr. Thomas Talmage, carpenter at
Wokingham.
Great part of the furniture to be disposed of.

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Mon 3 May 1779
The proprietors of the WOKINGHAM MACHINE beg leave to acquaint the public,
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that the said Machine will begin flying on Monday next the 3 instant, and will set out
from Mrs. Wheatley’s the Old Rose in the Market-place, Wokingham, at 6 o’clock
every morning (Sundays excepted) and return at one o’clock each day from London—
Prices as usual.

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Mon 26 July 1779
ALL persons indebted to Messrs. MONK and PARKER, late of Wokingham, Berks,
are desired to pay their respective debts to Mr. Round, at Windsor, attorney for the
assignees for the said bankrupts, or they will be sued without further notice.

ALL persons indebted to CHARLES HOULTON, late of Wokingham, Berks,
Carpenter, Broker, and Auctioneer, a bankrupt, are desired to pay their respective
debts to Mr. Round, attorney-at-law, in Windsor, one of the assignees of the said
bankrupt.

TO BE SOLD by Auction, By Mr. G. DIAS, by order of the assignees, on the
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premises, in Wokingham, Berks on Thursday the 5 day of August next. The genuine
stock of Mr. Charles Houlton, carpenter, broker and auctioneer, a bankrupt: consisting
of walnut-tree and beech chairs, ditto tables,; Bath and steel stoves, a range, crane and
jacks; brewing and other coppers; three work benches, &c. &c. The whole to be

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