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Local notices and sale ads from early London shopfronts
The fragment lists an ad for a Putney Surrey brick house for rent or sale with warehousing and tin trade notes. It also reports master pinmakers warning brass workers against journeymen selling waste metal, plus a sale of goods at Garraway's Coffee House and a library auction for Abraham Taylor’s books in Swithin's Alley.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Putney
Surrey
Windsor Street
River Thames
M ‘Bortors
Golders Ludgate
Pinanaker
Mater
London
Company of
Exchange& Alley
East-India Company
John Barnes
Green-Lettice-Lane
Cannon-Street
Joan Barnes
Houthold
Thames-side
Ammersmirch
Hartoff
Deceas
Bruxelles
Arras
Henry the Eighth
F. Smith
Japan
India
Bradshaw
Soho Square
Heata
Buckingham-Screec
Strand
Thames
Tentu Nicos
Abraham Taylor
Deptford
Hamlin’s
Goffee
Swithin’s Alley
Royal Exchange
Marine
Bitchin - Lane
Robert Kirke
Wpper
St. Marcin
le Grand
Cheapside
Rosert Kirke
Haydenyard
Universal Family Medicine
Kinz
Printfeller
Martin
Duke of Cumberland
Cranbourn Alley
Leicester Field
Thomas Prentice
Postmester
Bungey
Suffolk
Hildyard
Bookfell
King
E. Co