Royal gift and curious notices sweep through London markets
The Princess of Wales orders fifty pounds to Mr Charles Clay for shares in a musical clock sale. A Mrs. Harrison tale reveals her growing family as a pattern of conjugal affection. Trade items from Jamaica to Germany flow in while exports to Portugal and Holland rise. Theatre listings, tides at London Bridge, and daily stock quotes fill the page with notices of theater plays, shipping, and financials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Princess of Wales
Charles Clay
Jamaica
Gibraltar
Gloucester
Tables to the Law for Gentlemen of Estates
This Day is published dedicated to Prince William and presents tables of lands descent estates property conveyance crimes writs and precedents in common law chancery and conveyancing. Printed for Henry Lintot at the Cross Keys Fleet Street price five shillings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Duke of Cumberland
Henry Lintog
St. Dunstan’s Church
Fleet-street
Ini Folia
Cncilia Magne Britannie
Hibernia
Sytodo Verolamiensi
A. D
Ad Londinehferng
Accedunt Coriftitariones
Alia
Ad Historiani Ecclesie Anglicana Spestantia
A. Davide Wilkins
T.P. Archidiacono Suttolc
Davis
Pater-nofter-Row
Amen
State
N.B
Proposals for Spring Gardens Entertainments at Vaux-Hart
A 1734 notice outlines an entertainment season at Spring Gardens from late April to three months or more with music and a fixed organ. One thousand tickets at one guinea admit two. non-subscribers pay one shilling per visit. Subscribers’ names will be engraved on tickets. Subscriptions begin April 7 with tickets distributed April 18.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vaux-Hart
T. Cox
Bookfeller
Royal Exchange
J. Stage
Book
Ornamental Map Sets Offered by Wittpey at Ludgate Street
Advertisement for large two sheet and one sheet maps with global and regional coverage, including world maps, Europe, Britain, and city plans. Describes prices per sheet, offers seven free maps for six purchased, and notes the shop at Ludgate Street sells related optics, china, and jewelled wares with in house production and cash payment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Europe
Asia
Africa
North America
South America
Great Britain
England
Ireland
Germany
France
Spain
Italy
Muscovy
Sweden
Denmark
Hungary
Flanders
Swabia
Greece
Yorkshire
America
Wales
Cambridge
Oxford
Westminster
G. Wittpey
Goldsmith’s
Ludgate Street
St. Paul’s
The Most Noble Elixir for Hypochondriack Melancholy
An archaic advertisement touts a nostril-tingling elixir claiming infallible cure for male and female hypochondria and vapour disorders. It promises rapid mental relief from despondency and fear, noting dramatic health improvements after few doses and offering sales at Mr. Radford's Toyshop in the Strand for five shillings with directions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Radford
Rose and Crown
St. Clement’s Churchyard
Strand
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Theatre-Royal
Drury-Lane
King
Miller
Manfeld
Covent-Garden
Brive
Scapia
Theatre- Royal
Lincoln’s-Inn - Fields
Mirucipates King
Pontus
York Shireman
London Bridge
South Sea
South Sea Annuities
New South Sea Annuities
Bank
Prem
India
Royal Exchange Assurance
London Dicta
Ditto
Mine Adventure
al Garraway
Exchange- Alley
Cornhill
Apel
Joan Barnes
Michael Newnam
Hatton-Garden
D. Evans
Ald
Jonathan Hulls
T. Boreman
Child
St. Paul's Church-yard
Price
J. Pemberton
St. Dunstan’s
Fleet-treet
Browne Langrith
College of Physicians
Royal Society
Republick of Letters
Langrish
Prac
Physick
Wide
A. Boettefworth
C. Hitch
Red Lion
Nicholas Robinson
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