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Newspaper
Daily Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Aug 30, 1737
Page
2
The record lists day exports including 400 quarters of wheat, 100 quarters of rye for Streights, 58 C weight of leather, 110 C weight of lead shot, and 3033 pounds of tea to Dublin by certificate. Names of places or officials are not provided. The entries reflect a dated trade inventory without further context.
On Monday and Tuesday last Mr. Allport Tide Surveyor and Mr. Marks Land Waiter seized on board the Benjamin Sloop Stephen Doriroach Master from Cork thirteen hundred Weight of Irith Starch ten hundred Weight of Irith Spsap ninety Bottles of French Wine and several other things High Water at London Bridge occurred at 3 17 PM
Yesterday’s stock page shows bid and offer figures for South Sea stock and annuities, New South Sea annuities, Rank iq, Royal Exchange Assurance, Three per Cent. Annuities, Indian securities, and other government and colonial issues. Key items include prices in shillings and pence, with premiums and discounts noted, plus lottery tickets and various conversion counts.
London 1737 announces the discontinuation of the Stocks Market on September 30 and the opening of the Fleet Market on September 3. Interested vendors may apply to the Common Council Committee at Guildhall for shop stall or stand space with rent-free access until Lady-day next, upon notice of continued operation. Higlers gardeners and country carts to be provided with stands under the same terms.
A London market notice from September 1937 states that on or before October first the proprietors will permit town and country gardeners and assorted trades to lease remaining stands at Spittlefields Market. A prior sale on September 22 sold fifty nine stands. officials will attend at the Bitchers Arms on Mondays and Wednesdays 9 to 11 until September 30 to lease stalls and carts for sale of goods.
A long eighteenth century bookseller notice announcing Giles Jacob titles including The Accomplish'd Conveyancer and The Compleat Attorney's Practice in English Law. It lists volumes of conveyancing forms memoranda and chancery practice, with imprint details G. Strahan and H. Lincoln in London, and notes new editions and additions.
Tightly worded notice announces that securities are taught and sold with monies procured upon securities for money at reasonable terms. James Eastman will be heard daily from noon to two at Hamlin's Coffee-House in Swithin's Alley near the Royal Exchange. A Middlesex land security for 20001 at four percent is sought, and a security at three and a half percent is desired.
The sale on Thursday next the first of September at five o'clock in the afternoon offers Levant Coffee and Congo Tea and Bohea from East India Company warehouses. Goods to be viewed from today until sale at Kin g's Warehouse Coal Harbour Thames Street and at No. 18 Steel-yard Wharf warehouse.
A public sale at the Marine Coffee-House Birchin Lane on Thursday September 1 at four o clock afternoon. Items include 30 pieces white shalloons 103 woollen cloths printed Cheynés gowns and petticoats waitcoats and other fabrics. Goods viewable at the Publick Sale Warehouse in Goorhall Court Throgmorton Street from today until sale time.
An early advertisement promotes multi volume works on seafaring life and piracy. The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe recounts shipwreck survival near Oroonoque, Don Quixote studies, Wicherley poems, and A General History of the Pirates detailing notable pirates and two female pirates, fourth edition octavo.
A banker named Ernegan offers tickets for a Bridge Lottery and invites any interested party to obtain picks matched with the receipts in his plate sale. The sale includes nearly seventy thousand ounces of plate plus gold diamonds and related items, as described in his catalog.
An advertisement for large educational maps and globes from G. Wittpey at Ludgate Street corner, offering two sheet, one sheet, and three sheet maps with world, Europe, and Britain layouts. Includes a prominent claim of accuracy, modern surveys, and a vast display setup, plus optics and curiosities.
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