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Newspaper
Daily Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Nov 15, 1737
Page
2
A Bristol correspondent reports captures on Jamaica voyages. The Loyal Charles and Dispatch were seized en route to London with no contraband found. He warns warlike tensions may rise as soldiers and privateering efforts mount, and mentions court visits and theatre notices in London.
A fragment lists prices for South Sea stock and annuities, various government and bank securities, and related items. It mentions South Sea Annuities, Bank circulations, premium India, three percent annuities, Royal Exchange Assurance, London ditto, African and English copper, South Sea bonds, Mine Adventure Shares, Emperor's Loan, exchequer orders, three percent and five percent, lottery tickets and stamped ditto with scattered prices and terms.
November 15 1737 residents of Farringdon Within are urged to send an account of bad pollers for Mr Selwin to the Scrutineers for Mr Marshall at the Half Moon Tavern Cheapside. Scrutineers will attend daily to receive the reports.
ESSIEURS William and BENJAMIN SEWARD give notice they will continue selling undrawn tickets in the current lottery using a new method considered more advantageous for purchasers. Interested parties may apply at their office in Garraway's Coffee House Exchange Alley for full satisfaction.
Thomas Hinconks of Mercer advertises a clearance at the Great Wheat Sheaf on Ludgate Hill. He offers luxurious fabrics including gold and silver brocades, waistcoats, velvets, damasks and satins in Genoa red, with white ground flowered velvets for ladies at 12s per yard and foreign velvets from 12s to 20s per yard.
By order of the assignees in a bankruptcy The Wraight late of Brookland Kent Mercer Draper and Chapman to be sold by the Candle at the Marine Coffee House Kirchin Lane on Thursday the 17th instant at four in the afternoon a large parcel of groceries ironmongery tallow tin turners glass and earthenware 30 suits superfine embroidered laced and worked Teat Ee 288 castors 50 striped cottons 120 diapers 100 printed linens and cottons clothes 102 Dowlus 150 papered garlex to strip'd barrass 50 holanas go counterpanes 1 fine Indian habit striped lindseys bays york and west country clothes etc a large parcel of mercery and black silks goods to be seen at Simmons's Wharf Southwark and the rest at the Publick Sale Warehouse in Copthall Court Throgmorton Street from this day the 15th instant to the sale.
Listing from Garraway's Coffee House in Exchange Alley offering goods for sale on Thursday the 19th instant at five o'clock. Items include 16 packs of single tea, Bohea and Congou teas, hyson, coffee, carracca coco, nuts, nuts, Jamaica coffee, bitter almonds, with catalogues available at Garraway Houses and Joan Barnes broker. Located in East India Company warehouses at Coleharbour and John's Coffee.
To be sold to the chef bidder before the Commissioners in a commission of bankruptcy awarded against Richard Mitchell late of Covent Garden vintner. Tomorrow the 6th instant at three o'clock in the afternoon at Guildhall London. Remainder of the term to come in the lease of the Bedford Arms Tavern in Covent Garden.
At Surman s great Sale Warehouse in York Street near Covent Garden the household goods and stock in trade of a chair and cabinet-maker are offered cheap for ready money. Items include glass sconces, carved frames, mahogany and walnut furniture, desks, bookcases, chests, dressing tables, tables, chairs, four-poster beds, linens, quilts, and Whitnaby blankets with low fixed prices on each item.
On Saturday next will be publishd N CXXXV being the nineteenth Number of the fifth and last Volume of AYLE's Historica and CriTICAL DICTIONARY. Gentlemen who find any Defects in their Numbers are desir'd to give Orders for replacements so that the work, now nearing completion, may be finished accurately and not leave Books imperfect.
The Lottery Office at Rainbow Coffee House Ludgate Hill maintains a public numerical book of drawn numbers, with half hourly updates. A register records entrants numbers or 6d per ticker and can provide immediate success tallies for Bridge Lottery and Jernegan sale claims. Es Roberts and staff promise prompt, courteous service.
The present lottery will continue with all prizes drawn daily and printed each evening by R Shergold printer to the commissioners, published by J Roberts in Warwick Lane. Army Office at Union Coffeehouse sells lottery tickets and government securities. Blank and prize money paid as drawn, with correct numbers and register books maintained.
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