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Newspaper
Daily Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Dec 17, 1739
Page
2
Sudbury resident William Sparrow declared bankrupt, with a note of tonight’s performances at Theatre Royal Drury Lane and Covent Garden. High water at London Bridge listed for 29 minutes after twelve noon.
The list shows varied securities and bonds including South Sea Stock, New South Sea Annuities, Bank and Royal Exchange items, India and Africa related notes, assorted copper, mine shares, and government Exchequer and lottery tickets with prices in pounds shillings and pence. The fragment reflects a market snippet detailing trading levels and premiums across multiple financial instruments.
GeorgE Burton announces a ward meeting to choose a new COMMON Council-MAN for Farrindon Without Ward at Furfice Hall Old Bailey on Friday next the 21st instant. He requests voters attend despite the large ward and apologizes for not personal visiting.
The Taunton Waggon, serving Somersetshire and parts of Devon, has moved from the Bell Inn Woon Street to the Saracen's Head Inn Friday Street London. Daily attendance offered for goods and passengers to western parts at reasonable rates. Crockern Yeovil Sherburn and others remain at Gerrard's Hall and continue to carry to all Waits as usual.
This Day is publist'd price is. A satire titled Shaftesbury's Characteristicks is advertised to be printed for Charles Corbett at Addison's Head Fleet Street and by the pamphletfellors of London and Westminster.
This Day is publi'd with a new frontispiece and all plates, offering six hundred approved recipes in cookery pastry confectionary preserving pickles and monthly bills of fare. Also over three hundred family medical receipts incl drinks syrups salves ointments and cures such as Dr Mellc's mad dog bite remedy. Includes Elements of Chemistry translated by Timothy DalLows and printed for J Pemberton and Mr Martin Bryson.
Proposals published for six shillings subscription to a two volume work titled True and Historical Account of the Sacrament of the Eucharist. Includes discussion of tithes offerings in early Christianity, liturgical benedictions, rites of primitive Christians, Ignatius hymns, Councils against heresies, and comparisons of Jewish and heathen sacrifices.
By George Adams greetings come from bishops and clerics who have endorsed his forthcoming work and provided subscriptions. He requests immediate naming of patrons with places of abode, offering manuscript viewings in Fleet Street and Duck Lane and noting half payment for non London readers.
A historical critique laments the Court of Aldermen overstepping its negative vote on a mansion house project. It provides reflections on abuse of power, warns Commoners of London against excess influence, and defends the conduit’s handling of affairs. Printed for John Wilford near the Chapter House.
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