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Newspaper
Daily Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Mar 11, 1738
Page
2
The Chamberlain of the City of London announces that from Monday the 13th of March he will begin paying a two percent dividend to the Orphan Fund proprietors. Payments will continue every Monday and Thursday from ten to one o clock in the forenoon, holidays excepted.
The Court of Directors of the South Sea Company give notice a General Court will be held at their House Threadneedle Street on holiday the 23d instant at eleven in the forenoon. It is one of the half yearly courts appointed by the charter.
Fragmented notice describes a pamphlet or book print from Hoe Velames Folio about preservative against popery in free discourses. It notes principal heads of view between Protestants and Baptists, with deliveries of volumes upon a second payment and signed receipts.
A broadside printed for F. Roberts in London reports the remarkable trial of Gebxes Price for murder at Hounslow Heath. He received the death sentence at the Old Bailey. Also advertised are trials at large of Thomas Cities, George Nevil, Nathaniel Hildyard, Samuel Crane, and Mary Cooks, all condemned to death on February 25.
An 18th century sale notice lists numerous commodities including Barbadoes ginger greens citrons pistache crafts and candy. The auction mentions Mr dying and Serhomnas Pindar Esq in St Johns Square with sale slated for Ladytay next.
A fragment from a 17th century advertisement lists prayer books by Watts and others, noting editions of Devout Exercises of the Heart and related religious aids. The text promotes moral instruction for children and devotional practices, with references to editions and the authors’ names embedded in the catalog.
The notice describes multiple 18th century religious works including sermons and theological treatises. It markets editions printed in London and Newcastle, lists authors such as Brimproh Gurdon and Joseph Lord, and notes prices, binding, and the Fleet Street seller.
Maps sold cheap at Wimpeys Great Toy Shop corner of ditchgate street EMG offers two sheets of European maps at 8d each, parts of England Wales Ireland and America at 4d each, plus globes nine to twenty inches. Telescopes microscopes spectacles reading glasses toys and shells also offered with quality noted.
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