New East India Company Ship Launched at Blackwall
A large ship for the East India Company was launched at Blackwall to be commanded by Captain Thomas Manley, previously of the Enfield. A drowning death occurred in the New River near Saddlers Wells, a middle aged woman found with a letter to her mother and four shillings. Thomas Harman, Esq from Bath and John Drummond, Esq formerly of the Irish Establishment and served under King William II, died in Northampton and Bath respectively.
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Blackwall
East India Company
Thomas Manley
Enfield
New River
Saddlers Wells
Laft
Bath
Thomas Harman
Northampton
John Drummond
William II
Ireland
Stock and Bond Prices in Plain Ledger Tone
Historical market notes list varied securities with bonds and stock prices. References include South Sea and Royal Annuities, English Copper, London Affiliation, and various percentages such as 3 per cent and 1 per cent discounts. The column reads like a broker’s table with measured figures and headings, reflecting a period ledger style.
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Royal al
London
Hawkers and Pedlars Licenses Notice 1735
The Hawkers and Pedlars Office at Holbourn Court Gray's Inn declares yearly licenses will be issued from Tuesday June 17. Office hours are 9 am to 12 and 2 pm to 5 pm daily except holidays. Applicants are urged to obtain licenses here and avoid trading without license, as surveyors will enforce proceedings rigorously.
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Holbourn Court
Gray’s Inn
Fune
RAPEe SNUFF Sold at Tom's Coffee House Hoxton Cornhill
An early 19th century notice advertising Rapee Snuff from the French Manufacture offered for sale wholesale or retail at Tom's Coffee House in Cornhill, with rasped form or in rolls of various weights.
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Hoxton
Cornhill
Monuments of English Kings with Epitaphs and Plates
This advertisement announces a multi-plate publication of monuments of English kings with epitaphs. Graveler designed and master engravers produced the plates, bound at the end of Reigns in Rapin's History. Subjects include Edward the Confessor, William the Conqueror, William Rufus, Edward I, Edward IV, Edward V, Henry VII, Edward VI, plus others. Published by Knapton at the Crown Ludgate Street.
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England
Graveler
Rapin
Edward de Confessor
Westminster
William the Conqueror
Caen
Normandy
William Rufus
Winchester
Edward I
Westminster Abbey
Edward IV
Royal
Windsor
Edward V
Henry VII
Edward VI
James
John
Paul Knapton
the Crown
Ludgate-street
Henry HW
Richard
Jon
Edward II
Edward the Black Prince
Edward Tit
Richard II
Elizabeth
Mary Queen of Scots
This Day Price List and Religious Works for Sale
A long catalog of religious books and pamphlets offered by J. Walthoe in Cornhill. Titles include Stevenson’s works on scripture and salvation, Sherlock’s sermons, Nichols's conference, Rymer’s representation, and Secret Monita Societatis, with notes on editions, prices, and a tale about a book stolen and reprinted in Amsterdam.
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Wiliam Stevenson
Stevenson
Hereford
William Sherlock
St. Paul’s
Temple
Woop
Wailrocke Burst Rope
Church of England
Bulstrode
Nichols
Rymer
Layer
Fobn Schipper
Amsterdam
Antwerp
Fefwits
Holland
Amserdam
van Eyke
Schipper
A 18th Century Bookshelf of Epigrams and Verse
A merchantish catalog lists second edition enlargements with alphabets and a long list of poetry, songs, plays, ballads, hymns, epistles and translations. It includes works by Philips Tickell Welfred Savage Mallet Stirling Blackmore and others, with prices and editions across multiple volumes.
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Philips
Humphry Duke of Gloucester
Welsred
Longinus
Oikographia
Duke of
Timon
Pope
Earl of Burlington
Earl of Pembroke
Welfred
Wanderer
Savage
Mallet
Robert Henley
Robert Walpole
Nobl Order of the Garter
E. Young
Odingfells
T. Lucretius Carus
Thomas Creech
Richard Blackmore
Hero
Leander
Muftus
Stirling
Price I
Duke of Buckingham
Earl of Roscommon
Lord Lansdown
Gildon
George Granville Lord Lansdowne
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South Sea
Bank
India
Walthoe
Royal Exchange
A. Philips
Fry
N. B
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