Wednesday, April 7, 2010

'From An 1811 Liverpool Mercury.'

'From The Liverpool Mercury Dated Friday, August 9th. 1811'.

Third Notice. I Samuel Welsby, formerly and late of Circus-street, in Liverpool, in the county of Lancaster, book-binder, and victualler, was confined in the Borough Gaol of Liverpool, on the first day of May, one thousand eight hundred and eleven, and not being charged in custody, with any debt or debts, sum or sums of money, exceeding in the whole two thousand pounds, do hereby give this my thirs public notice, that I intend to take the? benefit? of an act passed in the fifty-first year of his Majesty's reign, entitled "an Act for the relief of certain insolvent debtors in England, and I do hereby give notice, that a true and perfect schedule, containing a discovery of all my real and respective estates and property hereafter to be sworn to, is now ready to be delivered to any of my respective creditors applying for the same to the Governor or Goaler?, or Deputy Gaoler, of the said prison.- Witness my han? Samuel Welsby. The debtor above mentioned was in my custody on the first of May, but was not in actual custody at the time of signing this notice, and signed his name this 25th day of July, in the presence of me. Thomas Amoz.

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