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Electronic handbooks, vade-mecums, etc. - Great Britain - Early works to 1800
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The Exeter pocket-journal; or, West-Country gentleman and tradesman's memorandum-book for the year of our Lord 1755. Of general use to all persons, but more especially to the inhabitants of, or those who have dealings or commerce in, the Western counties: containing, I.The proper heads for a weekly account throughout the year, ruled with convenient partitions for memorandums of business done, and appointments of what is to be done, either in business or pleasure; and convenient columns for entring receipts & payments, or keeping a cash-account by way debtor and creditor; by which, on restrospection, any past transaction may be easily seen and remember'd. Also the number of days and of full. Weeks from the beginning to any given. Time of the year, for expediting the computation of rents, interest, wages, &c. ... IV. The regal table from the conquest; a compleat list of the Bishops of Tawton, Crediton, & Exeter, as also of Cornwal (when a bishop's see was fix'd there) from the establishment of those sees to the present time: together with lists of the deans of Exeter, sheriffs of the counties of Devon and Cornwas, mayors and sheriffs of Exeter, & members of Parliament for the said counties and the said city of Exeter, from the restoration to the present time. V. Accounts of the post-roads from Exeter, rates of postage, coasting ships between Exeter and London, with the names of the owners, and at what wharfs they unload; stage-coaches, bye-coaches, post-chaises, saddle-horses, and carriers, with the places where they put up, and at what time they set our from, or arrive in, Exeter, London, &c. VI. An exact account of all the fairs in Devonshire and Cornwal, and on what days they have been held since the alteration of the stile. To be contintued annually.
Date: [1755]- Books
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The soldier's friend, and traveller's vade mecum; or, A new pocket vocabulary, in six languages, viz. English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese; Containing all the terms that belong to the military art; words of command; duty signals; evolutions; fortification; gunnery; military implements and utensiles; provisions, and forage. Also, the cardinal, and ordinal numbers; days, months, and seasons; weights, measures; metals; wearing apparel; furniture; diversions, and games; with accurate tables of the coins of most of the european nations, and states; and many words, phrases, and terms that are most frequently made use of in common intercourse: to which are annexed interrogatories, and answers, that might occur in some of the most pressing situations, so arranged, that persons of different countries may communicate their ideas to each other, without having any other knowledge of more than their respective languages. By Capt. James Willson, of the Marines. Dedicated (by permission) to His Royal Highness the Duke of York.
Willson, James, active 1760-1812.Date: M,DCC,XCIX. [1799]- Books
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The Soldiers pocket companion Or The manual exercise of a foot soldier taken from the life for the use of the gentlemen of the several associations humbly inscribed to His Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland.
Date: MDCCXLVI. [1746]- Books
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The Volunteers companion; Containing, the description of a firelock, position of a soldier under arms, directions for the manual exercise, &c. Also, the manner of drawing up a regiment to receive the reviewing general; with particular rules for marching and manoeuvring: to which are added, the late Duke of Cumberland's regulations for performing military duty, honours paid to crowned heads and general officers; with an exact plan of a camp. The different situations and manoeuvres engraved on copper-plates.
Date: MDCCLXXXIV. [1784]