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Goldsmith Mountfort’s shop and curious wares in Fleet Street
A broad notice describes Mountfort of Fleet Street next to the Middle Temple Gate as a maker and seller of gold and silver snuff boxes, gold watchers chains, candlesticks, and pocket books. It promotes his guarantee of repairs or refunds, and lists new publications and advertisements for books and pamphlets tied to the period’s religious and literary scene.
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Mountfort
Red-Lyon- Court
Fleetstreet
Middle Temple- Gate
Theocritus
Rapin
D’acier
Mr. Purney
E. Corll
St. Dunstan's Church
Pleestreet
J. Brown
Black Swan
Temple-bar
R. Burleigh
Ovid
Sewell
Philips
J. Hughes
Pope
Gay
Chute
Theobald
Cambridge
Transilvania
Great Poland
Prossia
Philathes
M Smith
Cornhil
London
Westminster
Abby
Bath
Tho
Bille
Rolls
H. Clements
St. Paul’s Church-yard
Dr’s
W. Dinchliffe
Drydee’s
Royal Exchange
J. Roberts
Warwick Lane
Exon
Ben. Johnson
England
John Philips
Ben, Johnson