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Newspaper
Daily Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Oct 24, 1737
Page
2
Water levels crest near London Bridge minutes after two in the afternoon as tides push into the river. Local observers report runoff from heavy rains earlier today. Authorities warn of slippery banks and potential street flooding in downstream areas.
A compact list of financial instruments with prices and terms from various issuers. Entries include South Sea Stock, New South Sea Annuities, Bank and India securities, Three Per Cent Annuities, Royal Exchange Assurance, London and African issues, Indian bonds, Salt Tallies, Mine Adventure Shares, Exchequer Orders, Swiss Per Centes, Lottery Tickets, and stamp duties, noting dividends and maturities.
On Lord Mayor Day in October 1737 the two city marshals are ordered to notify ward constables of traffic restrictions and crowd control. They must enforce a double watch of armed men, keep streets clear of carts and horses, remove obstructing vehicles, direct coaches to queues, and publish a copy in daily papers.
London, October 20, 1737. Proposals are invited from parties wishing to contract with the Markets Committee for cleansing and keeping clean the city markets. Sealed proposals must be left at the Town Clerk's Office in Guildhall by Thursday the 27th instant and bidders may attend the Committee in the Guildhall Council Chamber at four o’clock that afternoon.
Notice invites contracts with the London Commissioners for Sewers for paving work within the city and liberties for one year from November 16. Proposals sealed to Mr. John Smith, Clerk, by November 27, stating prices for Pebbles Rags Gravel and Labour. Daily attendance at Guildhall 10 to 12 to receive proposals.
The Day is published with the addition of a third volume in the sixth edition. Defence of Primitive Christianity and the establishment against fanatical clergy claims. Printed for J. Peele and sold by J. Osborn at the Golden-Ball, in Pacer-nofter-Row. NR pH Third Volume may be had separate to complete the sets for those who possess the two former volumes.
Mr. Thomas Hincwurrr of Mercer boasts a broad assortment at Ludgette Hill shop with reduced stock in trade. The sale advertises rich gold and silver brocades waistcoats and shapes velvets sattens Genoa red damasks and various silks at cheap prices to attract buyers.
By Order of the Asignees in a Bankruptcy, Thos Wraight of Brookland Kent, Draper Mercer Grocer, will be sold by auction at the Marine Coffee-House Birchin Lane on Thursday the 27th at four in the afternoon. Drapery and mercery items including gowns, calimancaes, camblets, shawls, linens, haberdashery, and more. The lands sit at the Publick Sale Ware house Copthall Court Throgmorton Street from tomorrow until the sale.
A Davis published compilation by Edward Ward titled Nuptial Dialogues and Debates or An Uses ful Prospect of the Felicities and Discomforts of a Married Life drawn from the lives of princes nobility and others. It offers serious merry fabrical poems on love piety prudence and happiness in wedlock for all social ranks.
Fragmented 18th century advertisement for an abridged edition of Boyle Lectures with bishops doctors and Burnet as editors. Notes a plan to render the Philosophical Transactions into a concise Epítome and to promote Christian apologetics, published by Betterworth and Hitch with editor at Clerkenwell Green.
Advertisement announces an author’s annexed sermon on Persecution and a forthcoming two volume Family Expositor on all New Testament books. It promises a corrected text, notes, and a distinct character. price sixteen shillings for two quarto volumes, with half paid at subscription and rest on delivery. subscriptions via the author at Northampton or booksellers across Great Britain and Ireland.
A fifth edition travel work by John Macky recounts curiosities across English counties from Norfolk to Wales and Cornwall. The two volumes, printed for R Gosling in Fleet Street, are offered with a second volume completing Great Britain's journey, priced in shillings.
An 18th century notice promotes GRATIS for the year 1738 and an easy remedy named Anodyne Necklace. It cites high reputation, claims children recover from a so called Bripket and Crave after usage, and lists prices and shops including Bradburn's, Daffy's, Ste Hiktis' Elisir Ware-House and the Royal Exchange in London.
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