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Newspaper
Daily Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jun 18, 1737
Page
2
In the City of London on Thursday the 16th of June 1737 the council debated exempting any former sheriff nominee who pays 400 pounds plus 20 marks for prison minister maintenance from eligibility, under acts of 1703 and 1656, with a rule tying future aldermanic election to prior sheriff orders.
An 18th century advertising fragment for Richard Hayes offers pages on interest tables, salaries and wages calculations, exchange rates between Amsterdam and London, and methods to compute bonds, annuities, and various financial instruments. Also advertised are the Brokers Breviate and the Negociator's Magazine, with ships bookkeeping and merchant practices.
A historical advertisement for a translated religious treatise by John Placete with prayers and meditations. It notes the English translator Quomas Fenton and publisher Edward Littleton at the Mitre in Fleet Street, offering sermons on practical subjects and two volumes in octavo at low prices.
The new issues duplicate the size and type of earlier editions. They cover four domestic topics including excises, standing armies, parliamentary dependency, and a modern constitution, plus papers on church and state, the crown’s power, and diverse humor. A dedication to the People of England precedes the volume list. Printed by R. Francklin in Ruffel-street Covent-Garden.
An advertisement promotes maps of London and world regions, including a large World projection map, with descriptions of surveying accuracy and high craftsmanship. It touts two sheet maps, a Map of London, and a plan of Westminster, plus a wide range of optics and curiosities sold by G. Wittoey at Goldsmiths Toy and Spirit Shop near Lindgate Street by St. Paul’s.
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