A History of Advertising from the Earliest Times.Sampson, Henry
History
A History of Advertising from the Earliest Times.
Sampson, Henry
Advertising -- History
_WHEREAS divers people are at great expense in printing, publishing,
and dispersing of Bills of Advertisements: Observing how practical and
Advantagious to Trade and Business, &c. this Method is in parts beyond
the Seas._
_These are to give notice, That all Persons in such cases concerned
henceforth may have published in Print in the_ Mercury _or_ Bills of
Advertisements, _which shall come out every week on_ Thursday
_morning, and be delivered and dispersed in every house where the
Bills of Mortallity are received, and elsewhere, the Publications and
Advertisements of all the matters following, or any other matter or
thing not herein mentioned, that shall relate to the Advancement of
Trade, or any lawful business not granted in propriety to any other._
Notice of all Goods, Merchandizes, and Ships to be sold, the place
where to be seen, and day and hour.
Any ships to be let to Freight, and the time of their departure, the
place of the Master’s habitation, and where to be spoken with before
and after Exchange time.
All Ships, their Names, and Burthens, and capacities, and where their
Inventaries are to be seen.
All other Parcels and Materials or Furniture for shipping in like
manner.
Any Houses to be Let or Sold, or Mortgaged, with Notes of their
Contents.
Any Lands or Houses in City or Country, to be Sold or Mortgaged.
The Erection, Alteration, or Removal of any Stage-coach, or any common
Carrier.
Advertisements of any considerable Bargains that are offered.
Any curious Invention or Experiment that is to be exposed to the
Public view or Sale, may be hereby notified when and where.
Hereby Commissioners upon Commissions against Bankrupts may give large
notice.
In like manner any man may give notice as he pleaseth to his
Creditors.
Hereby the Settlement or Removal of any Publick Office may be
notified.
Hereby all School-masters, and School-mistresses, and
Boarding-schools, and Riding-schools or Academies, may publish the
place where their Schools are kept.
And in like manner, where any Bathes or Hot-houses are kept.
And the Place or Key at the Waterside, whereto any Hoy or Vessel doth
constantly come to bring or carry Goods; as those of _Lee_,
_Faversham_, and _Maidstone_, &c.
* * * * *
_AT the Office, which is to be kept for the Advertisements, any Person
shall be informed (without any Fee) where any Stage-coach stands,
where any common Carrier lies, that comes to any Inn within the Bills
of Mortallity, and their daies of coming in and going out._
_In like manner all the accustomed Hoys or Vessels that come to the
several Keys from the several Ports of_ England.
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