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Newspaper
Daily Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Dec 27, 1738
Page
2
A December notice from the Bank of England proposes replacing three day light balls with seven day bills payable on demand to the owner and to order after light, to deter mail robbery. It includes blank indorsement forms to aid rightful owners, effective from January first.
The creditors and legatees of Japhet Crook alias Peter Stranger, late prisoner in the King’s Bench Prison, are urged to meet at the Crown Tavern near the Royal Exchange on Wednesday January 16 at five o’clock to settle claims. It is noted 135001 already recovered with more expected, and his will dated June 1734 directs payment of all just debts. Enquire for No. 5 at the tavern.
A broad eighteenth century prospectus promotes The Pious Country Parishioner and a collection of tracts by John Balguy. It outlines guides for daily Christian life, Sabbath observance, education, family discipline, and preparation for communion and death, with prices and publishers in Fleet Street. The listing enumerates multiple moral and theological works, including letters and foundations of moral goodness, aimed at parish readers.
A catalog of theological works including a true scripture doctrine of the Trinity and the Eucharist, the satisfaction of Christ, and a critique of Dr Clarke. It lists Enquiry into Clarke's assent to the Articles, the Sacred Trinity treatise by S W A B, and Lesuis's Socinian Controversy in six dialogues, printed for Geo Strahan.
A promotional note for a January issue titled The Gentleman's Diary. It lists items on reformations civil transactions memorable events translations and a chronology of princes from Adam to the present. The edition is advertised as published by multiple booksellers in London areas including Warwick Lane Royal Exchange Temple-Bar and Whitehall.
A compact advertisement catalogs Edward Young works and related titles. It lists ODE of Fame and other DEdications printed for Bettesworth and Hitch at Red Lion in Paternoster Row, including Lock’s Paraphrase on Paul, Thoughts on Education, Stanhope on the Gospels, Sir Roger S’Aitrange, Cyrus travels, Young sermons, and Hutchinson’s Witchcraft essay in multiple editions.
A compact catalog lists Milton works with life accounts and original papers, including life of James Fitz-James and Toland’s Preface. It notes auction frontispieces, various bindings, and prices in guineas or shillings, with additional items like Warburton and Fletcher editions forthcoming. The list indicates Royal Paper prints, quarto volumes, and multiple authors such as James Harrington and Abbe Bannier.
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