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HAMPSHIRE.
LOST, seen to have followed, on Thursday or Friday last, through HILSEA, two gentlemen on horseback, a liver-and-white coloured DOG of the setter kind; answers to the name of Rover; had a brass collar round his neck, with John Crewe, Esq. Crewe-hall, engraved thereon. It is hoped those gentlemen will have the goodness to send him to the Fountain coffee-house, Hilsea; or the Crown-inn, Portsmouth; where he will be owner.
— Hampshire Chronicle, Monday 04 October, 1790 (source)
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