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A Gold-laced HAT, of £1 5s. Value
Each person who shoots to pay Two Shillings and Six-pence; if there are not enough
to shoot for the Prize, the best Shooter to have the Money put in, to shoot at a Card,
four-feet Barrels, to stand Forty Yards, all over in Proportion
To declare for shooting at TWELVE o’Clock.

THE Proprietors of the Wokingham MACHINE beg Leave to inform the Public, that
the said Machine will, while the short Days continue, set out from Mr. WILLIAM
WHEATLEY’S, at Bush Inn, Wokingham,, and from the Bolt-in Tun, Fleet-street,
London at Eight o’Clock in the Morning.
N.B. Any Person that has found the Rim of a Silver Buckle, which was lost near Mr.
Wheatley’s, is desired to carry it to him, and they shall be rewarded for their Trouble.

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ON FRIDAY the 27 of December, 1771, will be given by Mr. WILLIAM
WHEATLEY, of the Bush Inn, Wokingham
SIX very good HATS,
To that Company which best performs a Round PEEL of Fifteen Minutes on
Wokingham Church Bells; each Company is desired to bring an Umpire, as the above
is to be decided by a Majority. The winning Umpire will be entitled to a Hat. No
Company will be admitted to ring, or anyone allowed to be an Umpire, but what dines
at the Ordinary, nor unless they give Notice before the Day appointed for Ringing
Dinner will be on the Table at One o’ Clock, and begin Ringing at Two.

1772

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Mon Jan 13
WOKINGHAM
Extract of a letter from Guildford, Jan 8

“ The inhabitants of this town were yesterday morning greatly alarmed with two or
three trembling of the earth, which were very great, and shook several houses , and
was imagined by some people to be an earthquake. Others said it might be the
powder-mills at Chilworth blown up. Many took their horses and rode to those mills,
and found them safe; but to their great surprise, found several people from
Godalming, Bramley, &c. there, who had been as much alarmed as those of our town.
The trembling of the earth were felt ar Altn, 17 miles from Hounslow. It was also felt
at Haslemere, 13 miles from hence, as also at Crondall, Crookham, and the
neighbouring villages.
A correspondent assures us, that the shock of the explosion of th powder-mills on
Monday last, was also felt as Windsor, where it threw down two very valuable chine
tureens, from a gentleman’s chimneypiece; it was also felt at Finchampstead near this
place.

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Mon 27 Jan 1772
WOKINGHAM, Jan. 16, 1772
THE Bag with the Letters from this Place of THURSDAY the Third of OCTOBER
last, having by some Accident been lost upon the Road to London, any Person who
may have found the same, and will bring it to Mr. CHAPLIN, Deputy Post-Master at
this Place, shall receive from him a Reward of GUINEAS.FIVE

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