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Adverts on Insurance Offices and a Runaway Bookbinder
An advertisement lists the Land Security Office of Insurance moving to the Crow in Fleet Street near Water Lane, with details on insurance, dividends, and April proposals for relief of Adventurers, plus a May deadline. It also notes James Dickson, a 33 year old Edinburgh apprentice, deserting his master, described as a thief, and requests booksellers and others not to harbour him. extensive quotes from his published works and a notice of public justice.
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Land Security Office
Great Britain
St. Paul's
Fleet-street
Water-lane
James Dickson
Britain