'From an 1870 newspaper'

Fom The Leicester Journal and Midland Counties General Advertiser, dated Friday, February 4, 1870.

Valuable live stock, hay, straw, turnip, and grass keeping, Thorne Langton, Leicestershire. Horton & Son are instructed by the Executors of the late Mr. Thomas Hill, to sell by auction, on Thursday, the 17th. day of February, 1870, the valuable flock of 214 sheep, viz., 70 in-lambed ewes, 39 ditto theaves, 23 barren ditto, 6 fat ewes, 34 meaty shearhogs, 40 wether and ewe lambs, and 2 tups.
27 beast, viz., 2 heifers in full profit, barren cow, 12 Welsh runts, 6 superior shorthorn steers, 3 two-and-a-half years old ditto, 2 ditto heifers, and 1 calf. Superior 3 years old colt, by "Percy."
72 acres of grass keeping, and about 35 tons of hay, a quantity of straw and turnips, with use of yard.
Also, 20 acres of grass keeping, and about 30 tons of hay, in the Lordship of Shangton. The greater portion of the keeping will be let till the 1st. day of May.
Parties are requested to view the hay and keeping at Shangton previous to the sale, as the same will be offered at Langton.
Refreshment by ticket at ten o'clock, and the sale to commence at eleven.
Catalogues may be had at the Swans Hotel and Advertiser office, Market Harborough, and of the Auctioneers, at their offices, Mowsley, and 7, Cank-street, Leicester.