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Newspaper
Daily Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Aug 10, 1738
Page
2
Public notice from the Lord Mayor and 22 Aldermen dated August 19 1738 in the reign of King George II sets a price cap of 68 6s per chaldron for sea coal imported from Newcastle and nearby ports. Selling above this limit incurs a penalty of 6 33s per chaldron proportionate to quantity.
A gentleman and three ladies in Carshalton Surrey witnessed a lady riding past when she allegedly rode over a child breaking its foot. Mr. Wilson at 7 Inner Temple is offering two guineas for the informant's disclosure of the lady's name and residence. The Rainbow Coffee-house near Gray's Inn Walk offers free inform and lists property and lending notices with extensive estate opportunities in London Middlesex and Surrey including advowsons and leaseholds. Details from John Pillmey available daily with times given for inquiries and notices.
This Day is publise'd, The Turzo Epinion by G. Smith of Kendall in Westmoreland. A two part work explaining clear science of distilling and cordials, with a directory of distilling instructions and cost profits. Also available longer works on fermentation and artificial wines. Prices listed.
This Day is publish'd a large Folio volume on the Life, doctrine and miracles of Jesus Christ and the Apostles. It includes thirty three copper plates two maps showing the travels of our Saviour and His Apostles and a chronological table from Herod I to the end of the Apostolic Age. It is compiled from New Testament sources and noted commentators by a Divine of the Church of England. Published by Arthur Bettesworth and Charles Hitch at the Red Lion in Paternoster Row.
Next Week will publish the Third Edition of A Course concerning Fevers in Two Letters to a young Physician. The first letter dismisses all theories as vain. the second gives regimen for cure and guidance to the sick. Also includes remarks on pulse and urine and fever crises. Published by John ClarkeCornhill.
A public advert proclaims The History of the most remarkable Life and extraordinary Adventures of Colonel Jaque also called Colonel Jack born a gentleman turned thief, later a merchant and regimental colonel, with humbler notes on Gallanties or the Span in Germany, as printed by Ward and Chandler and sold in London shops.
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