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TO CHAIR MAKERS, PUBLICANS, AND OTHERS.
TO be SOLD, by AUCTION, by Mr. YOUNG, on Wednesday, February 2nd, 1825, on the Premises, known by the sign of the Battle of Minden, at Hilsea,—All the STOCK-IN-TRADE, HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, a three-motion Beer Engine, an excellent double Lathe, with fly-wheel; Pony, Gig, and other effects, of Mr. Cox, Chair Maker, &c. under an Execution from the Sheriff of Hants.
The Stock comprises a general assortment of utensils used in the Chair-Making Business; and the Household Furniture consists of several good feather beds, hair mattresses, mahogany tables, chests of drawers, and a great variety of other articles.
May be viewed the day preceding the Sale, which will commence precisely at eleven o’clock.
— Hampshire Telegraph, Monday 31 January 1825 source
There’s a reference to John Cox, insolvent debtor, petitioning the court on 23rd March. Intriguingly, in that notice John Cox is described as “Innkeeper and Chairmaker”, and the auction here includes “a three-motion Beer Engine”. I wonder what his exact relationship with the Battle of Minden was.
Perhaps some of those five dozen ash chairs that were sold in 1830 were made by Mr. Cox. Maybe some of them even found their way to the Coach and Horses (“quantity of ash and mahogany chairs”).