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Harris's pocket journal, for town and country: or, the gentleman's memorandum book, for the year 1772. Containing, The London Sheet Almanack: Fifty-Two double Pages ruled on a superfine Post Paper for Accounts and Memorandums: The Traveller's Pocket Directory, containing all the Principal and Cross Roads, with the new Turnpike Roads, in England and Wales; exhibiting all the Cities, Boroughs, Post and Market Towns, and principal Villages in each County; their Market Days and Distances from London; with compleat Alphabetical Indexes: An Account of the Expence of sending a Letter or Packet by Express from the General Post Office: Tables shewing the Amount of any Commodity from one Farthing to five Shillings: Tables of Interest at five per Cent: A Table for calculating Expences, Income or Wages, per Day, Week, Month and Year: Another for finding the Value, per Kalendar Month, Week and Day, of any Sum, from One Pound, to One Thousand Pounds per Annum: A perpetual Diary, with a Table exhibiting the Dominical Letter for ever; according to New or Old Stile: An extensive Table for reducing Guineas to Pounds, and the contrary: An Account of the Days and Hours for Buying, Selling, Accepting and Transferring, in the several Stocks, and receiving Dividends: A Table useful in the Calculation of Exchanges, and several Branches of Trade: A List of all the Public Offices and Places for transacting of Business: A List of Bankers.
Harris, William, active 1768-1775.Date: [1772]- Books
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Successions and characters of the Kings of England, Scotland, France, Spain, Portugal, Sardinia, Denmark, Sweden, Poland, Prussia; Popes of Rome; Emperors of Germany, Russia, Turky, Constantinople; and the Adtholders of the United Provinces; who have reigned since the Christian æra. Together with some account of the origin of each nation, Digested in a concise, easy, and accurate Manner. Calculated for the Use and Amusement of all Degrees of People. To which is added, a new map of the roads of England and Wales, with the Distance of one Town from another in Computed Miles, and the Distance of each Market Town from London in Measured Miles.
Date: 1751- Books
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Reasons for dividing the road from Kingston upon Thames to Sheet-bridge near Petersfield, into two districts, under separate trusts.
Date: 1791]- Books
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The Chapmans and travellers almanack for the year of Christ 1694 : wherein all the post roads, with their several branches and distances, the marts, fairs, and markets in England and Wales, and alphabetically disposed in every month ... : to which is added a table of accounts ready cast up ... and other tables and things, useful for all travellers, traders, or chapmen whatsoever : also, the rising and setting of the sun and motions of the tides, and whatsoever else is necessary for an annual almanack.
Date: 1694- Books
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Proposals humbly offered to the consideration of the nobility and gentry of the counties of Essex, Kent and Sussex, for a road from Stump-Cross, in the Hamlet of Mouisham, in the parish of Chelmsford, to and over Galley-Wood common, through stock and billericay, and from Brentwood, to be joined at or near Little Burstead Church, by Dunton Blacksmith's through Horndon to the River Thames at or near Tilbury Fort; and for establishing proper ferry-boats to and from Gravesend. So as to make a safe and speedy communication between the counties of Essex and Kent, and the adjacent counties.
Austin, Robert, of Great Ormond Street.Date: 1766]