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A complete guide to all persons who have any trade or concern with the City of London, and parts adjacent. Containing, I. The Names of all the Streets, Squares, &c. in the said City, and within the Bills of Mortality. II. The Names aud Situation of the Churches, Chapels, Meeting Houses, Companies Halls, &c. within the said Bills of Mortality. III. An Account of all the Stage-Coaches, Carriers, &c. where they Inn, and when they Go out. IV. The Names and Places of Abode of the most eminent Merchants and Traders in and about London. V. The New Rates for Carmen, as settled by the Lord-Mayor, &c. the 11th of July 1757. and the Rates of Watermen, Hackney-Coachmen, Chairmen, and Porters. VI. Rates of the General Post, and Penny-Post Offices where kept, and to what Places they send Letters and Parcels; and the Holidays kept at the Public Offices. VII. Useful Tables, which shew the Value of any Quantity of Goods, from One Farthing to Twenty-Seven Shillings. VIII. Tables of Interest, from One Day to Twelve Months, and from 1 l. to 1000l. at Three, Three and a Half, Four, and Five per Cent. Being The exactest Piece of the Kind hitherto published: And designed for the Use of Persons of All Degrees, as well Natives as Foreigners.
Date: 1760
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A letter to a Member of Parliament , on Mail-Coaches. By Thomas Pennant, Esq.
Thomas PennantDate: MDCCXCII. [1792]
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Facts relating to the meeting , Held on Wednesday last, the 15th of February, at the London Tavern, Respecting the late delivery of Letters; and an explanation Of some Circumstances that have led to a Difference between The Comptroller General and his Deputy. By Charles Bonnor, resident surveyor and Deputy Comptroller General of the Post Office.
Bonnor, Charles, actor and dramatist.Date: 1792]
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Complete list of all the market towns in Great Britain : their distance from London, the market days, the stage and post coaches, waggons and other carriages, the hours of setting out, their postage and fares to town, the principal inns they put up at, &c., for the year 1796.
P. BoyleDate: [1795]
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Papers relative to the agreement made by government with Mr. Palmer for the reform and improvement of the posts
Palmer, John, 1742-1818.Date: 1797