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Newspaper
Daily Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Sep 26, 1737
Page
2
The Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen express joy at the Birth of the Princess and pledge loyalty to the Protestant succession. They praise the Royal Family and wish prosperity, hoping for numerous descendants. A royal reply thanks them, affirming commitment to the laws and liberties of the realm. Bankruptcies and city lease notices follow.
South Sea Stock 1021 8th. South Sea Annuities 111 7 Sths. for the Opening. New South Sea Annuities 110 3 yrs. t6 78ths. Bank 146 for the Opening. New Bank Circulation 10s. Premium. India 178 1 half. Three per Cent Annuities 106 3 qrs. Royal Exchange Assurance rog to x half. London ditto 14 7 8ths. African 15. English Copper 2]. 12s. South Sea Bonds 41. 18s. Prem. India ditto 61. 18s. ditto. Sale Tallies ato 5 ditto. Mine Adventure Shares 61. Seven per Cent. Emperor's Loan 14. Five per Cent. ditto 103. Three a half per Cent. Exchequer Orders 1 qr. per Cent. Prem. on per Cent. ditto 3 per Cent. ditto. Lottery Tickets 310 . 5s
Estates bought and sold and monies procured upon securities. James Eastman to be heard daily from noon to two at Hamlin’s Coffee-House in Swithin’s Alley near the Royal Exchange. Ground rents of 20, 30, 40 or 50 annually wanted, with securities for 1, 2, 3 or 4000 at 4 percent also sought.
Notice to butchers poulterers gardeners and all persons that from Michaelmas Day next the Market at Shadwell in Middlesex will be a free Market for one year Any person wishing to take a stall or standing may apply to Mr Fobuinish at this office who will appoint stalls rent free for the year The stairs at Shadwell Dock are free stairs near the market for those who carry goods by water
An 18th century notice details terms for lodging, diet, riding, and entrance fees at Mr ta Guerniere's Royal Academy in Caen Lower Normandy. It notes 100 Livres entrance for the academy, 27 Livres for the Mathematick Fencing and Dancing Matters, 24 Livres per English Guinea, and various monthly expenses. It praises Caen for health and culture and claims many horses available for study and sport.
A late edition offers reexamined tables for interest at 3 to 12 percent, daily to yearly terms, with rules to cast up sums. Also includes salaries, exchange between Amsterdam and London, stock and bond calculations, life place values, and a ship's bookkeeper guide by Richard Hayess.
A sale by candle at Birching Lane in Throgmorton Street on Wednesday next at four in the afternoon will offer the stock of a merchant and draper resigning trade. Hats, printed linens, linens, cambrics, kerchiefs, carpets, linens and other fabrics, with many items listed, are to be sold. Proceeds go to the seller, with sale overseen by Sapthall Court.
A period inquiry printed for Richard Hett at the Bible and Crown in the Poultry lists exhaustive questions about angelic orders, governance, election, Fall, and Hell. It probes whether angels sin, their relation to the Mediator, and if devils reside in Hell or roam the Earth, noting a theological discourse from that era.
A London publisher advertisement lists several volumes available in English translation or abridgment. Items include Samuel Pufendorf’s The Whole Duty of Man with notes by Barbeyrac, Tooke’s translation. Tolly’s Offices with Cockman’s notes. Velleius Paterculus with a Biographical prefatory note. Locke's Essay abridgment by Wynne. an account of Persian revolutions from Father Krusinsky, translated by Du Cercéau. and Charlain Chardin notes. Prices and publishing details provided, with shop at Golden Buck, Fleet Street.
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