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Newspaper
Daily Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Dec 24, 1737
Page
2
London Bridge experienced a high water event 37 minutes after noon with water depth recorded as twelve inches. Local authorities issued warnings and monitored tidal surge conditions for nearby streets and riverside areas.
A fragmentary summary shows South Sea stock around 1013 qrs with mixed book values and premiums on various securities. Notes mention New Scotland Sea Annuities near 1103 qrs, Bank circulations at 142 2, India 177, Three Per Cent Annuities at 1063, Royal Exchange Assurance 111, and Exchequer orders at 9 per cent with premiums.
Notice that the Royal African Company of England will expose to sale at their house in Leadenhall Street on Thursday the 12th day of January next at eleven in the forenoon. Goods include Bees Wax and Elephant Teeth.
Mr Thomas Hincourrr of Mercer markets mourning wares at Ludgate Hill during the Great VRbeat Sheaf, offering a large variety at reduced prices and selling as cheaply as in ordinary times.
A notice from Peter du Cane, Esq. of Pancras-lane announces a reward of ten guineas for apprehending and delivering Thomas Beale, a about sixteen year old boy of five feet tall, with black hair, smallpox pits, wearing a dark grey frock and breeches, a black waistcoat, and a colored neckerchief, who left his master after being sent to receive money. If Beale returns immediately he will receive good treatment.
A 1733 advertisement for an abridged version of the Boyle Lectures on natural and revealed religion. It notes authorship by Bentley and associates, publication details at the Red Lion in Piccadoy-Row and Clerkenwell Green, and praises the project as a compact, affordable, and accessible epitome of the lectures to broaden literary access to Christian apologetics.
The item lists several eighteenth century works available in single and two volume formats. Notable entries include The Life and Strangely Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe and The General History of the Pyrates, with reference to Don Quixote and other works by William Wicherley. Prices and publisher details noted.
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