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Capital Elm Timber,
AT HILSEA, NEAR PORTSMOUTH.
TO be SOLD by AUCTION, by Mr. DANIEL MARCER, on Tuesday the 24th day of March, 1840, at the King’s Head Inn, Hilsea, at two o’clock, by order of the Master-General and Board of Ordnance, Seventy-two ELM TREES, standing on her Majesty’s Lands at Hilsea, near Portsmouth, in Eight Lots, subject to Conditions that will be produced at the sale.
The Timber may be viewed by application to Mr. Hart, Superintendent of Ordnance Property at Hilsea, of whom printed Particulars may be had; also, at the Ordnance Storekeeper’s Office, at the Gun-wharf, Portsmouth; and of Mr. Nightingale, Surveyor, Lyndhurst, New Forest.
— Hampshire Independent, Saturday 21 March 1840 source