Worthy Liverymen of London Nominate for Parliament
A general meeting at Wintneys Hall on November 19 nominates The Right Hon Humbury Parsons old Mayor Sir Joan Barnard Alderman Sir Rupert Gopp Hall George Heathcote and others to represent the city in Parliament. The chosen leaders are loyal to King George and the liberties of their country and the rights of fellow citizens.
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London
Wintneys Hall
Humbury Parsons
Joan Barnard
Knut
Rupert Gop
George Heathcote
George
Nomination offer to stand for City of London in Parliament
In a London meeting at Vintners Hall on November 19, 1740, Humphry Parsons Robert Goosehall and George Heathcote nominated themselves with Sir John Barnard to represent the City in Parliament. They urge Worthy Liverymen to support their services and seek votes and influence from London gentlemen.
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City of
London
Humphry Parsons
Robert Goosehall
George Heathcote
Brandy Warehouses Offer Arrack Sale at Auction Prices
A Lombard Street house advertises selling Goa and Batavia arracks from India Sale part 24 at the sale price or six and a half percent discount for East India Vaal stock. If bought from the Lombard Street warehouse, price is sixpence per gallon higher. They also announce landing Brandy and Rum for sale on the Keys in quantities of ten gallons or more at the same price as major dealers by the puncheon, with warehouse price three pence per gallon higher for smaller lots. The exact landing time will be posted at the warehouse.
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Lombard-Street
Goa
Batavia
India
Eubereby
Lombard Street
Notice of lodging house in Lincoln's Inn Fields
An invitation to gentlemen and ladies to stay past the Bagnio in Lincoln's Inn Fields at Mrs Olivir's, now run by her sister near St James's Street. Rooms, copying and bathing services available for five shillings per night at standard prices.
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Lincoln’s-Inn-Fields
Olivir
St. James’s-Street
Compleat System of Opticks and Allied Works Listed
A late 18th century bookseller catalog listing multiple works. Items include A Compleat System of Opticks by Robert Smith LL.D with four books. Hydrostatical and Ineumatical Lectures by Roger Cotes. Varenius geography translated and updated by Shaw. The Usefulness of Mathematical Learning by Isaac Barrow. Geometrical Lectures by Barrow. Natural Philosophy by Benjamin Worces ter. Philosophical Transactions abridged. Elements of Newton's Philosophy by Voltaire. The Method of Fluxions by Isaac Newton translated by John Colson. Prices noted in shillings or pounds.
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Stephen Austen
St. Paul's Church-Yard
Robert Smith
Ll.d
Rocer Cotes
M.A
Bernhard Varenius
Isaac Newton
Jurin
Peter Shaw
Cambridge
Isaac Bar- Row
Tavo
Price
Isaac Barrow
D.D
Benjamin Worcester
M.A. Reo
Philosophiccal Transactions
Lawthorpee Jones
Eames
F.R.S
J. Martyn
Voltaire
Sir Isaac Newton
John CoLson
A. M
Auction of Mr AppanAm Taytonk Library at Hamlin's Coffee House
Public notice announces a sale by auction without reserve of the extensive library of Mr AppanAm Taytonk late of Deptford. Catalogues available from listed booksellers in Holborn Strand Covent Garden Pall Mall Westminster Hall Fleet Street Poultry and at the sale site near the Royal Exchange. Proceeds go to creditors.
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AppanAm Taytonk
Deptford
Hamlin
Swithin
Aley
Royal Exchange
Stagg
Westminster-Hall
Whitton
Fleet-Street
Hett
Poultry
Whitridge
James Fletcher
Oxford
William, Thornbourn
Cambridge
Ode to Mankind Prince of Wales dedication notice
To morrow will be published Price t's Ode to Mankind addressed to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales printed for R Dediley at Tullys Head in Pall Mall and sold by T Cooper in Paternoster Row.
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Royal
the Prince of Wales
R. Dediley
Tully
Pall. Mall
T. Cooper
Paternofter Row
Publication Notice for The Publick Register Weekly Magazine
Last Saturday saw the first issue of The Publick Register or Weekly Magazine a threepence publication promising humor essays news and literature. The second number will include poems essays criminal case discussion epitaphs and a translated story with notices of advertisements and reader letters.
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the Publick Register
Earl of Chesterfield
RN. Esq
Gay
Nuimbry
Aikman
M—K
Boilean
D. of
Sermons and Religious Works by Rev Elisha Smith Lindsay
A two volume edition printed for Hodges and Corbett offers sermons on Christian life and church festivals by the late Rev Elisha Smith with a new edition of The Cure of Deism and a critical commentary on the New Testament. Price 18s bound in calf. Includes dedications to Edmund Lord Bishop of London.
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Edmund Lord
London
Elisha- Smith
Tidd St. Giles
Ile of Ely
Caple
Norfolk
J. Hodges
London- Bridge
C. Corbett
Addison’s
Lord Bacon
Jesus
Christ
Grotius
Hammond
Stanhope
Whitby
Burker
The Seventh Edition on Curing Nervous Distemper
Advertises a seven edition medical treatise detailing cures for headaches nerves epilepsy palsy and melancholy with directions to prevent and cure nervous distempers. Lists remedies safe easy and without expense from a physician in London venues and price two shillings bound.
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Indan
Baydon Yard
Great Caymial Evixtre claimed to cure consumption and asthma
An advertisement touts a “Chymical ELi XR” as infallible for all consumptions, asthma, and breast lung disorders. It promises rapid, complete cures, cures for coughing and breathing difficulties, and a universal remedy sold at Radford's Toyshop near St Clement's Churchyard, Strand, for 35.6d, amid competing counterfeits.
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Caymial Evixtre
Arthaias
Ren
St. Clement's Churchyard
Strand
England
Granp Specifick Patent Medicine Promises Quick Cure
An advertisement extols a tonic called the noble specifick that cures venereal and urinary ailments. It claims to cleanse relics of mercurial injuries, self pollution, and vessel weaknesses, with rapid recovery after use. It asserts remarkable efficacy and lists price and retail outlets in Bucklersbury and Poultry London.
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Sandswell
Che
Mr.Sandwell
Bucklersbury
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