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    1. [HRT] Shoreditch to Ware. ( 1739 )
    2. >From Read's Weekly Journal or British Gazetteer ( London, England ), Saturday, February 10, 1739; Issue 753. Next Week a late Churchwarden of a Parish behind the Royal-Exchange, who is upwards of 70 Years old, for a Wager of 20 Guineas, is to walk or run from Shoreditch Church to the Crown Inn at Ware in Hertfordshire, being 20 Miles: He is to do it in six Hours, the Bets depending amounts to several hundred Pounds.

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