'From an 1870 newspaper'

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

To Timber Merchants, Builders, Wheelwrights, &c. valuable oak, elm, and beech timber, South Kilworth, Leicestershire. Horton and Son are instructed by Captain Pearson, to sell by auction, on Wednesday, the 16th. day of February, 1870, at Mr. Ellson's, the White Hart Inn, 383 oak, 21 elm , and 27 beech trees, of very superior quality and fine growth, from 15 to 45 feet each, standing blazed, and numbered in the Caldicott spinney.
Dinner on the table at two o'clock, and the sale to commence immediately afterwards.
Three months credit will be given upon approved security.
The timber is well situated for removal, the Kilworth wharf, and the Kilworth and Stanford Hall stations are within 2-and-a-half miles.
Catalogues may be had of the Auctioneers, Mowsley, and at their office, 7 Cank-street, Leicester, and at the place of sale.