Anecdotes of the Manners and Customs of London during the Eighteenth Century; Vol. 1 (of 2): Including the Charities, Depravities, Dresses, and Amusements etc.Malcolm, James Peller
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Anecdotes of the Manners and Customs of London during the Eighteenth Century; Vol. 1 (of 2): Including the Charities, Depravities, Dresses, and Amusements etc.
Malcolm, James Peller
London (England) -- Social life and customs -- 18th century
For buying and selling of estates, public stocks, government
securities, and to lend money, 3,000,000_l._
For insuring ships and merchandize, 2,000,000_l._ at the Marine
Coffee-house, Birchin-lane.
For purchasing government securities, and lending money to merchants to
pay their duties with, 1,500,000_l._
For carrying on the _undertaking_ business, for _furnishing funerals_,
1,200,000_l._ at the Fleece-tavern, Cornhill.
For carrying on trade between Great-Britain and Ireland, and the
Kingdoms of Portugal and Spain, 1,000,000_l._
For carrying on the coal-trade from Newcastle to London, 2,000,000_l._
Cooper's Coffee-house.
For preventing and suppressing of thieves and robbers, and for insuring
all persons goods from the same, 2,000,000_l._ at Cooper's."
Here ceases the enumeration of the Journalist, but his hiatus shall be
supplied faithfully from other original advertisements.
A grand Dispensary, 3,000,000_l._ at the Buffaloe's-head.
Subscription for a sail-cloth manufactory in Ireland, at the Swan and
Hoop, Cornhill.
4,000,000_l._ for a trade to Norway and Sweden, to procure pitch, tar,
deals, and oak, at Waghorn's.
For buying lead mines and working them, Ship-tavern.
A subscription for manufacturing Ditties or Manchester stuffs of thread
and cotton, Mulford's.
4,000,000_l._ for purchasing and improving commons and waste lands,
Hanover Coffee-house.
A Royal fishery, Skinners-hall.
A subscription for effectually settling the Islands of Blanco and
Saltortugas.
For supplying the London-market with cattle, Garraway's.
For smelting lead-ore in Derbyshire, Swan and Rummer.
For manufacturing of muslins and calico, Portugal Coffee-house.
2,000,000_l._ for the purchase of pitch, tar, and turpentine,
Castle-tavern.
2,000,000_l._ for importing walnut-tree from Virginia, Garraway's.
2,000,000_l._ for making crystal mirrors, coach glasses, and for sash
windows, Cole's.
For purchasing tin and lead mines in Cornwall and Derbyshire, Half-moon
Tavern.
For preventing the running of wool, and encouraging the wool
manufactory, King's Arms.
For a manufactory of rape-seed oil, Fleece-tavern.
2,000,000_l._ for an engine to supply Deal with fresh water, &c. Black
Swan.
2,000,000_l._ at the Sun Tavern, for importing beaver fur.
For making of Joppa and Castile soap, Castle Tavern.
4,000,000_l._ for exporting woollen stuffs, and importing copper,
brass, and iron, and carrying on a general foundery, Virginia
Coffee-house.
For making pasteboard, packing-paper, &c. Montague Coffee-house.
A _Hair_ copartnership, permits 5_s._ 6_d._ each, at the Ship Tavern,
Paternoster-row; "_by reason all places near the Exchange are so much
crowded at this juncture_."
For importing masts, spars, oak, &c. for the Navy, Ship Tavern.
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