Wealthy Imports and Exports Listed on Bidday Ledger
On Bidday imports show linen from Riga and Petersburgh and Dantzick goods by the Ells and Quarters system, including canvas and flax. Exports include wheat, barley, rye, lead shot, gunpowder, and tea, with a wide range of Quarters and Ells recorded. Market notes cover South Sea stock, Bank, India securities, and Exchequer orders with varying rates.
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Streights
Riga
Petersbourg
Dantzick
Bremen
Hambourg
Flanders
Holland
Carolina
Pennsylvania
Ireland
South Sea
India
Royal Exchange Assurance
London
Prem
Mine Adventure
Nozagere
Ditto
Notice of London Market Closure and Fleet Market Reopening
London in 1737 announces the discontinuance of the Stocks Market and the opening of the Fleet Market on September 30. Interested sellers may apply to the Common Council Committee at Guildhall for stalls and rents wavered until Lady Day next, with rent-free terms if they commit by March.
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London
Common Courcil
Guildhall
Lyady
Gasa Bowe
Books and editions advertised in a pocket volume notice
An 18th century sale notice lists numerous titles and editions. Edward Young works including Thoughts on Education and Sermons are advertised alongside Lock paraphrase on St Paul and a Seneca collection. Also advertised are Cyrus Travels and Hutchinson's Witchcraft essay in multiple editions. The printers are A Bedesworth and C Hitch at the Red Lion in Pater-noster-Row.
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Edward Young
A. Bedesworth
C. Hitch
Red Lion
Pater-noster-Row
Lock
St. Paul
Dean Stanhope
Quayo
Sarum
Bishop Hutchinson
World Maps and London Globe Premier Map Sets Advertised
A Victorian shop ad promotes two sheet maps of the world and hemispheres, plus maps of Europe, Asia, Africa, and Americas, and a large map of Great Britain and Ireland. It details 20 mile radii around London Cambridge and Oxford, a London City map, and a grand screen-map display. G Willdey at Ludgate Street corner sells spectacles, optics, and curios.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Europe
Asia
Africa
North America
South America
Great Britain
England
Ireland
London
Germany
France
Spain
Italy
Muscovy
Sweden
Denmark
Hungary
Flanders
Swabia
Greece
Yorkshires
America
Enghind
Wales
Cambridge
Oxford
Tavenny Sheee
Eelaitia
Ludgate-street
Memorials and Histories on Great Britain Scotland and France
A historical catalog lists memorials of English affairs from Charles I to II and the Restoration, plus histories of Scotland from Robert the Bruce era and France from monarchy to Louis XIV. Publishes with a comparative essay on writing history.
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Great Britain
Scotland
Marquéss of Montrose
Earl of Clarendon
England
Charles I
Charles II
Robert the
France
Léwis XIV
Fater Davie
Frances
G. Strahan
Cornhill
Tables for Renewing and Purchasing Leases and Lives
This fragment notes a small pocket volume titled This Day is published price 2 shillings 8 pence. It promises tables for renewing and purchasing leases and lives with detailed decumal tables of compound interest to compute present value of sums or annuities from one pound onward.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tess
Robinson Crusoe
York
Mariner
America
Bredt
Oroonoque
WathianAos
Woodward
Fleetstreet
Don Quixote de la
William Wicherley
Providence
Tite
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London Bridge
TEFE
J. Peele
J. Osborst
Mateers
N. B
R. Francklin
Ruffel-street
Covent Garden
Avlajilua
G Morris
J. Brotherton
Bible In
Cornbul
J. Meres
Mtg
George
King’s Bench
Colymon-Pleas
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