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Pro bono publico. Ascot-Heath, second meeting. By permission, three days sport : On Whitsun Monday, being the 4th day of June next, will be run for, on Ascot Heath, five miles from Brooklyn-Ferry, the noblemen and gentlemens purse of one hundred pounds, free for any horse, mare or gelding.

Other author/creatorLoosley, Charles.
Format Electronic and Book
Publication Info[New York] : Printed by A. Robertson, no. 2, Queen-Street, [1781]
Description1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) ; 42 x 31 cm
Supplemental Content Evans Digital Edition
Subject(s)
Series Early American imprints. First series ; no. 44033. ^A478749
General noteDated: Brooklyn-Hall, May 8th, 1781.
General note"All horses to be entered at Mr. Loosley's (variously Loosely, Looseley) King's Head Tavern, on the race ground ... or at Mr. Loosley's Brooklyn Hall ..."
General noteThe only known copy of this broadside, held by the American Antiquarian Society, is badly mutilated with partial loss of title, which has been supplied from examples of similar advertisements published by Charles Loosley in New York's loyalist newspapers in May 1781.
General notePrinted area measures 35.9 x 26.8 cm.
References Bristol B5348
References Shipton & Mooney 44033
Other formsMicroform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series.
Reproduction noteElectronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 44033).
Genre/formBroadsides.
Genre/formAdvertisements Horse racing.

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