advertisement – Nicholas Walton – 25 Dec 1793

LEAD STOLEN



FOUR PIGS  of Lead marked G H _ L the property of the Commissioners and Governors of the Royal Hospital for Seamen, at Greenwich, in the County of Kent, having between the Evening of the 23rd, and Morning of the 24th Instant, been stolen from the Hospital’s Lead Yard or Wharf, at Skinner Burn, - Notice is hereby given, that any Person or Persons making Information to Messrs Peters, Attornies, in Newcastle, of the Offender or Offenders, so as he, she, or they may be convicted of the said Offence, shall, on Conviction of one or more of them, be paid the Sum of TWENTY POUNDS, instead of Five Guineas offered by Mt Johnathan Airey, in a Hand-Bill, bearing Date the 24th Instant. – It is requested that all suspected Persons offering Lead for Sale, may be stopped, and Information given as above.

WALTON and TURNER

Farnacres, 25th December, 1793.