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Newspaper
Daily Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Aug 15, 1738
Page
2
Flooding reported at London Bridge with high water crest measured 32 minutes after seven in the morning. Local authorities urged cautious travel and warned waterfront areas may be affected as tides remained elevated.
Yesterday reports show South Sea Stock at 101 and South Sea Annuities at 411 xqr, with new South Sea Annuities at 109 s qr. Bank values include x42 thalf and 12s 6d premium, India 167 3 qrs, Three per Cent Annuities 104 5 Schs, Royal Exchange Assurance 107, plus London ditto 141 half. African 14, English Copier 3 5s, South Sea Bonds 1 105, premium India ditto 61 5s, sale tallies 1 half to 23 qrs, Mine Adventure Shares 6, Seven per Cent Emperor's Loan 108 3 &cis, Five per Cent ditto g8 3 Bths. Three 1 half per Cent Exchequer Orders 110, Three per Cent ditto x per Cent Prem.
Trustees authorize sale by candle at Garraway's in Exchange Alley on Friday the 18th at three o'clock. Merchandise includes Hollands Cambricks muslins printed linens and cottons garlicks silks damasks diapers handkerchiefs and silks. Goods viewable from morning at No 17 Dyers Hall Thames Street. broker Samuel Torin.
A 1737 publication list detailing Rogers and fellow authors. It includes a corrected edition of a discourse on church authority, a review replying to Sykes, a critical examination of the Gospels birth narratives, a Vindication of the Septuagint, and a sermon preached at Winchester visitation.
A catalog listing multiple eighteenth century books and editions. Subjects include horticulture Treatises on vegetation fruit trees and gardening methods by Richard D Brawrey and Edward Lawrence, Tullys Offices translated by Cockman, Caius Velleius Paterculus Roman History, with prices and publisher details in Fleet-street.
An 18th century advertises French wines in neat bottles from Widow Lowe’s wholesale fishmonger shop opposite the church in Old Fish Street. Ursundy and Hermitage wines of 1734 vintage, Pontac Claret, tasting allowed by prior pro rata payment. bottles sold daily 2 to 6 pm except weekends. notes on duty and integrity claim to quell rumors of underpayment or misrepresentation.
A catalog excerpt lists the fourteenth edition of Sir Philip Sidney works in prose and verse, plus De St Evremond and Mazarin memoirs, then two volumes of The Adventures of Theageneo and Claricilia, and Greek romantic tales by Helio Polyus. It notes editions, authors, and publishers in Fleet Street.
An advertisement for a wide seventeenth century history of Ireland by Anthony Randall or Raamaymond, translated and expanded, featuring Lives and Reigns of Milesian monarchs, the Gadelians, Irish laws, Tara assemblies, wars with Danes, Henry I arrival, coats of arms, genealogies, copper plates, and a third edition with appendix. Published by Olive Payne at Horace's Head, Strand. price one guinea on royal fine paper.
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