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To be LETT, and entered upon at Lady day. A spacious convenient House fit
                          for a large family, situate in Wokingham, Berks; with a garden walled in and
                          cloathed with fruit-trees, a terrace   and shrubbery commanding, and extensive
                          prospect, with a double  coach-house, stabling for five horses, and  small close
                          of land adjoining.
                             For particulars, enquire of Mr. Edward Wise   Wokingham; Mr. Tucker, at
                          Reading; or Mr. Kimberley at Windsor.

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                          Mon 24  March
                                                           READING
                             This  day  was  committed  to  our  gaol,  by  Edward  Togwel,  gent.  Richard
                          Netherclife, charged on the oaths of Richard Hollis and Francis Houlton, with
                          breaking  open the workhouse  in  Wokingham  and stealing two loaves  and a
                          slice of cheese.

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                          Mon 31  March
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                             On Tuesday night the 11  March was stolen out of the yard of James Webb,
                          brewer, at Wokingham, an old BLACK MARE, upwards of 15 hands high, has
                          beenfired       on both the hind legs, and much swelled, particularly on the off
                          leg---whoever can give any intelligence of her, so that she may be had again,
                          shall receive one guinea reward, by applying to the aforesaid James Webb.

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                          Mon 7  April
                                                     A COUNTRY HOUSE
                             To  be  SOLD  or  LETT,  and  entered  upon  immediately.  A  neat  Brick  and
                          Sashed  HOUSE,,  pleasantly  situated  near  the  town  of  Wokingham,  in  the
                          county of Berks, adjoining to the Turnpike road, in a fine sporting country on
                          the edge of Windsor Forest late inhabited by Joseph Merlott, Esq., consisting
                          of two parlours, the one 14 feet and a half, by 13 feet and a half, the other 13
                          feet and a half by 12 feet and a half, a kitchen, wash-house with a pump in it,
                          cellar,  wine  vault,  four  good  bed-chambers,  two  garrets,  two  coach-houses,
                          stable for three horses, and a pump in the stable yard, with a good garden well
                          planted with fruit trees, near 100 yards long and upwards of 40 yards wide,
                          with a well in it.---A close adjoining, containing between two and three acres,
                          now laid down with grass, may be had with the same if required.
                             For particulars enquire of Mr. Wm. Trash, of Wokingham, who will shew
                          the premises.

                                                    WOKINGHAM, BERKS.
                                                  TO be SOLD by AUCTION,
                                                    By FRANCIS COLLINS
                             On Tuesday the 22d instant, (unless before disposed of by private contract)
                          at  the  Rose  Inn  in  Wokingham,  between  the  hours  of  two  and  five  in  the
                          afternoon,  in  one  lot,  THREE  MESSUAGES  of  TENEMENTS  adjoining,
                          situate in Roth-street, Wokingham; two of them in the occupation of Thomas
                          Beaver,  and  Wm.  Norman,  tenants  at  will;  the  other  untenanted,  with
                          convenient out-houses and good gardens.
                             Together  with  that  very  large  Barn  with  two  threshing  floors  therein
                          (commonly  called  the  Tythe  Barn,  having  been  originally  built  for  that
                          purpose) large yard, stable and cart-house thereto belonging.

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