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Speculum Commercii and Essays on Trade in 18th Century Gloucester
A dense advertisement list detailing a range of goods and services. It promotes The History of our Golden Fleece by an author of The Beauz Merchant, sold by R. and J. Bonwicke and J. Morphew, with notices of new houses at Wotton near Gloucester, a custom-house on the River Severn, and a dye-house. Also advertised are poems by Matthew Prior, Fishery Annuities, a chemical medicine, and various commodities, with pricing and publication details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. Bonwicke
Red Lyon
St.Paul’s
J. Morphew
Christesdam
Josiah Child
Wotton
Gloucester
Bristol
Severn
Stroud-water
Turkey
Rushia
Dursley
Worcester
Kidderminster
Shrewsbury
Seavern
Lord Powis
Matthew Prior
Erle Robert
Chaucer
Susanna
Walter Danniston
Horace
Addresi
Robert Harley
Juvenal
F.S
Roberts
Oxford Arms
Warwick Lane
N.B
Fach
Fisher
Crown
Fleetstreet
Waterhagé
London
Rondoo
Childres