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
"This day, the 8th instant, at Sam's Coffee-house, behind the Royal
Exchange, at three in the afternoon, a book will be opened for
entering into a joint-copartnership for carrying _on a thing_ that
will turn to the advantage of the concerned."
For importing oils and materials for the woollen manufactory, permits
10_s._ each, Rainbow.
For a settlement in the Island of St. Croix, Cross Keys.
Improving the manufacture of silk, Sun Tavern.
For purchasing a Manor and Royalty in Essex, Garraway's.
5,000,000_l._ for buying and selling lands, and lending on landed
security, Garraway's.
For raising and manufacturing madder in Great Britain, Pennsylvania
Coffee-house.
2000 shares for discounting pensions, &c. Globe Tavern.
4,000,000_l._ for improving all kinds of malt-liquors, Ship Tavern.
2,500,000_l._ for importing linens from Holland, and Flanders lace.
A Society for landing and entering goods at the Custom-house on
commissions, Robin's.
For making of glass and bottles, Salutation Tavern.
The grand American fishery, Ship and Castle.
2,000,000_l._ for a friendly Society, for purchasing merchandize, and
lending money, King's-arms.
2,000,000_l._ for purchasing and improving Fens in Lincolnshire, Sam's.
Improving soap-making, Mulford's Coffee-house.
For making English pitch and tar, Castle Tavern.
4,000,000_l._ for improving lands in Great-Britain, Pope's-head.
A woollen manufactory in the North of England, Swan and Rummer.
A paper manufactory, Hamlin's Coffee-house.
For improving gardens, and raising fruit-trees, Garraway's.
For insuring Seamen's wages, Sam's Coffee-house.
The North-America Society, Swan and Rummer.
The gold and silver Society.
2,000,000_l._ for manufacturing baize and flannel, Virginia
Coffee-house.
For extracting silver from lead, Vine Tavern.
1,000,000_l._ for manufacturing China and Delft wares, Rainbow.
4,000,000_l._ for importing tobacco from Virginia, Salutation Tavern.
For trading to Barbary and Africa, Lloyd's.
For the clothing and pantile trade, Swan and Hoop.
Making iron with pit-coal.
A copartnership for buying and selling _live hair_, Castle Tavern.
Insurance office for horses, dying natural deaths, stolen, or disabled,
Crown Tavern, Smithfield.
A rival to the above for 2,000,000_l._ at Robin's.
Insurance office for servants' thefts, &c. 3000 shares of 1000_l._
each, Devil Tavern.
For tillage and breeding cattle, Cross-keys.
For furnishing London with hay and straw, Great James's Tavern.
For bleaching coarse sugars to a fine colour without fire or loss of
substance, Fleece.
1,000,000_l._ for a perpetual motion, by means of a wheel moving by
force of its own weight, Ship Tavern.
A copartnership for insuring and increasing children's fortunes,
Fountain Tavern.
4,000,000_l._ for manufacturing iron and steel, Black Swan Tavern.
2,000,000_l._ for dealing in lace, &c. &c. &c. Sam's.
10,000,000_l._ for a Royal fishery of Great-Britain, Black Swan.
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