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Broadside on Repairs and Foreign Language Teaching
An old advertising notice offers instruction in geometry geography navigation architecture fortification perspective geodesy with methods for attackers and defenders. It lists venues Gilbert’s Coffee House Williams’s Hurt’s and Tom’s Coffee House and promises attendance at applicants’ homes with options in French, Italian or English. It seeks scholars in surveying carpentry bricklaying glaziers plasterers masons and related trades.
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Francis
Gilbert
Pickadilly
Williams
Bagaio
Long-Acre
Hurt
Somerset-house
Tom
St. Martin’s-Lane
Grorhee