From the Kentish Gazette, 3 January 1804. Price 6d.

ISLAND OF SHEPPEY, KENT.

Valuable and Improvable. Freehold Farms, TO be Sold by Auction, by Peter Cone, Burrell, and Foster, at the “George Inn,” Sittingbourne, on Friday the 6th of January, 1804, at twelve o'clock, in two hits.

Lot 1. WYBORNS. A valuable Freehold Sheep Farm, distributed into 15 enclosures, with several useful and necessary buildings, in Farm House, Barn, and other conveniences, in the parish of Minster, four miles from Sheerness, and about forty-four miles from London; containing 177 acres, 3 roods, and 7 perches of excellent land, compact in a ring fence, let at present to M. William Plane, on lease expiring Michaelmas next, at the very old low rent of £57 10s. per annum, but of the estimated value of £150 per annum net.

Lot 2. MINSTER ABBEY, immediately adjoining, consisting of 3 good Farm House, built of stone, three stories-high, with Barn, Yard, and Lodges, and the ground divided into 17 distinct enclosures, the far greater part feeding land, situate also in the parish of Minster, and containing altogether 310 acres, 3 roods, and 34 perches, divided only by the road leading from Eastchurch to Sheeness, let to Mr. Brett for a term, of which four years only remain unexpired, at a very old and low rent of £200 per annum, but of the estimated value of full £300 per annum net.

May be viewed by leave of the tenants, till the sale, on application to Mr Rouse, senior, of Minster, who will shew the farms; of whom particulars may be had; of Brym Bentham, esq. Sheerness at the “Star,” Maidstone; “Fountain;” Canterbury, “Crown,” Rochester; “George,” Sittingbourne; “George,” Dartford; “White Hart,” Gravesend; “Ram and Bell Inns,” Smithsfield; at Lloyd's Coffee-house; of Messrs Williams and Brooks, “Lincoln's Inn,” New Square; and of Messrs. Peter Coxe, Burrell, and Foster, Throgmorton-street, where plans of the estates may be seen.