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Comes commercii: or The trader's companion . Containing I. An exact and useful table, shewing the value of any quantity of goods or wares ready cast up, more adapted to merchants use than any other extant; which is demonstrated by 14 examples relating chiefly to buying and selling. II. A table calculated for universal use, which use is shewn in the solution of questions, in multiplication, division, reduction, merchandizing, and measuring all kind of superficies's and solids, or gauging vessels and casks. III. The manner of casting up dimensions in generals whether the same be taken in inches, feet and inches, yards, perches, &c. and how to give the answer by reduction, duo-decimals, or decimals. IV. The several customs used by surveyors and measurers, in measuring glass, wainseor, painting, plaistering, flooring, tyling, partitioning, brick, or stone-work, &c. and the common rate of such work by the rod, yard, foot, &c. V. Instructions for entering goods at the custom-house, inward, outward, and by certificate; with several material clauses in such statutes as relate to exportation and importation. VI. Concerning water-side business, and the constitution of the keys, wharss, porters, &c. there: also the charge of wharfage, lighterage, and porterage, for landing, loading, weighing and housing goods, and what is usually paid for the use of the warehouse at the water-side. VII. Rules concerning freight, bills of lading, primage, and how the same is paid for, &c. VIII. Concerning insuring ships, merchandizes, and houses, and how to make rates and averages in case of loss; wi[t]h the advantages of the practice of insuring in several instances, with respect to foreign and inland trade: and many other things never before made publick. To which is added, a supplement concerning simple and compound interest, with tables thereof, and the use and manner of calculating the same; and to make up accompts of mortgages, where the mortgagee has received rent, &c. The whole adapted to the use of merchants and traders, lawyers, surveyors, and measurers of building, &c. By Edward Hatton, gent.
Hatton, Edward, b. 1664?.Date: 1723- E-books
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A letter to the Right Honourable Sir Robert Walpole, in December 1727 . Writ after some expostualation with him for not standing to his engagements, on his giving another the vacancy in the commission of appeals, &c. With his answer to it.
Whatley, Robert, d. 1767.Date: M.DCC.XXXIX. [1739]- E-books
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A bill to prevent the holding of any market for the future in the High Street of the Borough of Southwark, in the county of Surry
Parliament of the United KingdomDate: 1755]- E-books
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Information for the Incorporation of Coopers, and the Incorporation of Fleshers, in Leith, pursuers, against the United Incorporations of Masons and Wrights there, defenders
Incorporation of Coopers (Leith, Scotland)Date: 1748]- E-books
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I shall not follow the example of my opponent in quitting the subject with a sort of huff, ..
Maxwell, George, Surveyor.Date: 1788]