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Friday, October 24, 2014

That lot would give you a hangover.

To be sold by inch of candle.

At his Majesty's Warehouse on the Quay at Wivenhoe, . June 1742-3

Six hundred and forty large casks, containing upwards of five thousand nine hundred gallons of neat old Bordeaux and Nantes Brandies, which will be put up in large and small lots, for the convenience of several buyers.
The sale began on the 19th day of January 1742 and will continue on Wednesday and Friday every week till the whole is disposed of,and begin each day at eleven o'clock in the forenoon and continue till five in the afternoon.

Ipswich journal 1742.

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