London Common Council Order on Rogues Vagabonds and Beggars
London City orders print copies of a March 2 1737 common council resolution. It authorizes magistrates to seize idle persons and vagabonds, rewards officers two shillings per rogue, and assigns 300 pounds to the London Workhouse to shelter and employ those committed. The chamberlain is directed to fund these measures from the city’s treasury.
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Perry
Tueday
George the Second
Great Britain
Order of Common-Council
City of London
John Barnard
Cuba
Chamber of London
London
City of
Penny-Post Letter Offer to Meet Lord for Favor
A note signed by an unnamed writer offers to tell a Lord where and when to be spoken with in exchange for secrecy. The writer promises abundant thanks and vows the Lord will never hear the author’s name or see the letter.
Auction of Original Pictures at Rainbow Coffee House
At the Rainbow Coffee House on Ludgate Bull this evening at six an assortment of original pictures from Italian French and Dutch schools will be auctioned along with chimney pieces door-pieces and sea views in various sizes. Catalogues available at the sale venue.
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Ludgate-Bull
This Day Is Publish’d Fitted to Bind with Rider’s Almanack
An 18th century advertisement announces This Day is publish’d to bind with Rider’s Almanack for 1739 including a Court-Kalendar Lift of Parliament and public offices. Pricing details show three lifts bound with an Almanack for 2s or 4d each, with a savings of one third. It warns against an old edition palm’d off as new and notes genuine editions bear the name J Walton with a J W cypher on the Court Kal.
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J. Watson
Wardrobe Court
Great Carter- Lane
London
Westmintster
Royal Navy
J. Walton
J. W
War and Peace in Latin Laws of Nature and Nations
This item describes a large folio volume titled Rights of War and Peace by Hugo Grotius, with an English translation and extensive notes by Barbe Rac. It lists multiple London printers and booksellers in the West End, Ludgate Street, Gray's Inn, and Newgate Street.
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Hugo Grotius
Mr. Barbeyrac
Groningen
Royal Academy of Sciences
Berlin
W. Innys
R. Manby
St. Paul’s
J. and
Knapton
Ludgace-street
D. Browne
Temyple-Har
T. Osborn
Gray’s-Inn 3
E. Wicksteed
Newgate-streer
New Editions of Classic Works Promised by A. Milar
A long advertisement lists forthcoming and current editions of historical, political, and philosophical works. It details John Milio’s collected works with life notes and plates, Harrington’s Oceana with Toland’s account, Thomson’s Seasons and poems, James Fitz-James life, a treatise on the soul, Warburton and Fletcher works, and Bannier’s Mythology. It notes royal paper editions and subscription details, priced variously. The item is an 18th century bookseller catalog entry from A. Milar in the Strand.
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Pol
John Mili
Thomas Birch
M.A
F.R.S
Richardson
Vertue
N.B
Mr. Thomson
Sir Isaac Newton
Britannia
Sophonifba
Italy
Greece
Rome
Britain
Liberty
Lord Tabor
Great Britain
Agamemnon
Ottawa
James Fitz-James
Berwick
France
Ireland
Flanders
Spain
Sevennes
Dauphiny
Rhine
Almanza
Barcelona
Europe
Abbe Bannier
Royal Academy of Inscriptions and Belles Leveres
A. Milar
St. Clement’s Church
Strand
Cure for scurvy drops advertised at Two Blue Pots
An advertisement extols a “hymical Drops” as the infallible cure for scurvy and allied humours, claiming rapid blood purification, relief from eruptions and pains, and prevention of fevers. It warns imitators and directs buyers to the Two Blue Pots in Haydon yard, Minories, at 3s 6d per bottle.
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Holv
Cross Keys
Cornhill
Sotck
Auchor
Haydons
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Abraham Richards
Temple-Bar
Madam de Gomez
A. Richards
Warburton
Moses Cemontstrated
Andrew Fletcher
Price
Rodney Rc Oltio
Rundy
Rom
Hilt
Harrington
Salkeild
Shower
Venris
Comberbach
Holt
Lutwyche
Yelverton
Fitzgulban
Cooke
Shaw
Oseph Fox
Westminster Hall
J. Fox
T. Cooper
Globe
Paternoster-Row
A. Dodd
de Peacock
J. Chinchley
Charing- Cross
R. Dodsley
Tully’s Head
Pall-Mall
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