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Interest compleated, in three parts, viz. 1st. 48 tables for simple interest, Ye Principal, from 1 Penny, to 100,000, Pounds Ye Time, for 365 Days, 11 Months, & 50 Years, at 3,4,5, & 6 Per Cent. 2d. 4 tables, of brokerage, or Commission, Ye Stock, or Value of Goods Sold, from 1 Pound, to 100,000, Pounds, at 1/8, 1/4, 1/2, 3/4, 1, 1 1/4, 1 1/2, 1 3/4, 2, 2 1/4, 2 1/2, 2 3/4, 3, 3 1/4, 3 1/2, 3 3/4, 4, 4 1/4, 4 1/2, 4 3/4 to 5 £ Per Cent. 3d. A table of time, for Ye speedy finding Ye number of Days, between any two Days in Ye Year. All calculated & examined by John Hewitt, Gent.
Hewitt, John.Date: [1723?]- Books
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Interest tables on an improved plan. Shewing BY Inspection The Legal Interest on every Sum from 1l. to 1000l. and from 1000l. to 10,000l. for 1 Day to 30, 40 and 50 Days, and for 3, 6, 9 and 12 Months. Tables for 3, 3?, 4, 4?, 5, 5?, 6, 6?, 7, 7?, and 8 per Cent. per Annum, from 1l. to 10,000l. for 3, 6, 9, and 12 Months. A Table for 100l. at 3 per Cent. per Annum, from 1 Day to 365 Days, particularly useful to the Dealers in East-India Company's Bonds. A Table of Discount at 6? per Cent. the Allowance made by the East-India Company to the Purchasers of Goods at their Sales for Prompt-Payment: Calculated to the One Hundredth Part of a Penny, from One Penny to One Thousand Pounds. A Table for the Payment of Salaries or Wages. A Table shewing the Number of Days from any Day in one Month to the same Day in any other Month. By Robert Griffin.
Griffin, Robert.Date: MDCCLXXV. [1775]- Books
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Observations on time, sacred and prophane: being chronographical disquisitions on the Julian and Gregorian styles; Etymological Notes on the Names of Years, Months, and Days. Also Historical Remarks on the various Holy-Days, either Fasts, or Festivals in Life in England; their Original, Names, End, and Use, fitted to this present year 1709. By N.B. Philomath.
N. B., Philomath.Date: 1709- Books
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A new book of interest, containing accurate tables, calculated to a farthing, at three, three and a half, four, and five per cent. From one pound to five hundred, and from One Day to Sixty, also from One to Twelve Months. Giving Plain Directions for casting up Interest at other Rates, and other Tables equally useful.
Date: MDCCLXXXI. [1781]- Books
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Phillips's British merlin, and provincial calendar for the year 1796, Containing the Calendar Months, the Places of the Sun, Moon and Planets, the Rising and Setting of the Sun and Moon, the Eclipses, and other useful Astronomical Intelligence; also, a list of the Fairs, in the Counties of Leicester, Northampton, Rutland, Warwick, Derby, Nottingham, and Lincoln. The Members of Parliament, &c. for the same Counties. Also, an useful Table of all the existing and most common Taxes; Together with an interesting series of curious Astrological Predictions.
Phillips, R., Sir (Richard), 1767-1840.Date: [1795]- Books
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The london almanack. For the year of our Lord, 1705. For the Year of the World 5705. For the Year of the Queen's 3. Containing, I. The Moon's Rising, Setting and Southing. II. The time of High Water at London-Bridge. III. The exact High Water in 100 other Ports. IV. The Roman Account fitted to our Months. V. The Sun's Rising and Setting every Day. VI. The Length of the Day and Night. Vii. The Increase and Decrease of the Days. Viii. The Regulation of Pendulum Clocks. IX. Choice Medicinal Observations. X. The Eclipses of the Luminaries. XI. The Mutual Aspects of the Planets. XII. The necessary Furniture of an Almanack. XIII. The Hieroglyphicks of the Future State of England for an Hundred Years to come. By W. S. M.D.
Salmon, William, 1644-1713.Date: 1704- Books
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A new method for valuing of annuities upon lives, and leaseholds, or leasehold estates; also, church and college leases considered. Shewing at Sight as Follows: I. How many Years, Months, &c. Purchase an Annuity upon Life, for any Age, from 30 to 73 Years, is worth, when Money yields 4, 5, 6, 7, or 8 per Cent. Interest. II. How much a Year 100l. is worth upon Life for any of the abovesaid ages. III. How many Years an Annuitant must live to receive the value of the Money sunk. IV. The Value of the Buyers and Sellers Chances. V. The present Value of any Annuity upon Life, from 1000l. a Year, to one Pound a Year, for any Age from 30 to 73 Years, when Money is worth 4, 5, 6, 7, or 8 per Cent. VI. How many Years, Months, &c. Purchase, Leaseholds are worth for any certain Number of Years under 100, at 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10 per Cent. per Annum. Vii. The Annuity that 100l. is worth, if laid out upon Leaseholds; very useful for valuing of Buildings and Pines. Viii. The Increase of 100l. at 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 per Cent. per Annum. IX. The Decrease of 100l. at 4, 5, 6, and 7 per Cent. per Annum; very useful for valuing of Pines, payable at certain Terms of Years in Lease. X. The Amount of 100l. a Year, if the Payment is forborn for any Number of Years, under 31, at 5, and 6 per Cent. very useful in settling of Accounts between Executors and Orphans. With many useful Examples and Instructions for valuing of single Lives, two or more Lives; Lives taken in with other Lives; Reversion of Lives; Annuities in Expectation; Estates for any certain Term of Years, as Freeholds, Leaseholds, without any Decimals. By Richard Hayes.
Hayes, Richard, accomptant and writing-master.Date: M,DCC,LXXXIX. [1789]- Books
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Tables of interest, at 4, 4 1/2, and 5 per cent. From 1 to 365 days, from 1 to 12 Months, and from 1 to 10 Years. Which, by directions given, answer for all other rates from 1 to 10 per Cent. Also, Tables, shewing the Exchange on Bills, or Commission on Goods, from ? to 3 per Cent. To which is prefixed, A Table, shewing the Exchange allowed by the purchaser of a bill payable at a certain number of days or months. The second edition, with additions. By John Thomson, Accomptant, Edinburgh.
Thomson, John, 1733?-1807.Date: MDCCLXXV. [1775]- Books
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Tables of interest, at 3, 4, 4 1/2, and 5 per cent. From £.1 to £.10,000, and from 1 to 365 days. In a regular progression of single days; which is An Advantage not to be found in any other Book of the kind. Also, Tables, at all the above Rates, From 1 to 12 Months, and from 1 to 10 Years. And Tables, Shewing the Exchange on Bills, or Commission on Goods, &c. from ? to 3 per Cent. To which is Prefixed, A Table of Discount on Bills at a certain Number of Days or Months. The fifth edition. By John Thomson, Accountant in Edinburgh, Author of the Universal Calculator, and Tables for Calculating the Prices of Grain.
Thomson, John, 1733?-1807.Date: MDCCLXXXVIII. [1788]- Books
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Early religion evidenced and recommended; being the substance of a sermon, preached in Highgate, near London, July 22d, 1792, by Edward Porter, occasioned by the decease of Miss Lewis, daughter of the late Capt. Thomas Lewis; Who departed this Life, happy in the Lord, July 8th, Aged Seven Years and Two Months. Published at the Request of Friends.
Porter, Edward, -1812.Date: [1792]- Books
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The shepherd of Banbury's rules to judge of the changes of the weather, grounded on forty years experience. By which you may know, The Weather for several Days to come, and in some Cases for Months. To which is added, a rational account of the causes of such alterations, the nature of wind, rain, snow, &c. By John Claridge, shepherd.
Claridge, John (Shepherd)Date: [1748]- Books
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The shepherd of Banbury's rules to judge of the changes of the weather, grounded on forty years experience. By which may be known The Weather for several Days to come, And in some Cases for Months; To which is added a rational account of the causes of such alterations, the nature of wind, rain, snow, &c. By John Claridge, shepherd.
Claridge, John (Shepherd)Date: 1800- Books
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The shepherd of Banbury's rules, to judge of the changes of the weather, grounded on forty years experience, by which you may know The Weather for several Days to come, and in some Cases for Months. To which is added, a rational account of the causes of such alterations, the nature of wind, rain, snow, &c. By John Claridge, Shepherd.
Claridge, John (Shepherd)Date: [1781]- Books
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For the benefit of six orphans. A funeral discourse on the death of Mr. John How, who departed this life the 17th day of November, 1767; (having buried his wife but a fortnight before) and hath left behind him six children quite destitute, the eldest about fourteen Years old, and the youngest not yet four Months. By R. Elliot, A.B.
Elliot, Richard, -1788.Date: [1767]- Books
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An account of the curious and interesting trial of Thomas Hall, late haberdasher on the South Bridge, Edinburgh, before the High Court of Justiciary, in January and February 1789; for fraud and wilful imposition, In the Months of May, June, and July last. Containing, The Indictment, Proof, and other Procedure, With AN Elegant Speech made by the Pannel, Verdict of the Jury, &c. &c.
Hall, Thomas, haberdasher.Date: MDCCLXXXIX. [1789]- Books
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A new book of interest, containing accurate tables, calculated to a farthing, a two and a half, three and a half, four, and five per cent. From one pound to five hundred, and from One Day to Sixty, also from One to Twelve Months. Giving Plain Directions for casting up Interest at other Rates, and other Tables equally useful. With easy Rules for casting up Stock.
Date: MDCCLXXIV. [1774]- Books
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The amazing garland, composed of two lamentable new songs I. London surpriz'd at the dreadful Tempests of Rain, Thunder, and Lightning, which happened the last Months, at one, two, and three òclock in the morning, to the great surprise of the Cities of London and Westminster, and several other places in the Country. II. The Christian's preparation for the Day of Doom. To which is added, a poem on the torments of hell. Licensed and enter'd according to order.
Date: 1770?]- Books
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The minister's practice: or, the female politician. Their similar political Steward, with Threats and Promises, cozen'd their Cousen out of a large Manuscript, near fourteen Months before the Siege of Fort St. Philip's; that was not only written to expose their destructive Minions, for being guilty of mercenary Ends all the last War; but also to discover the Danger of Minorca, thro' their gross Neglect of Duty. Zealously Addressed, With a Present of 3300 Guineas, To the bold Prussians unparallel'd hero. By an Earl's grandson.
Railton, J. (John).Date: 1758- Books
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Anniversary thanksgiving sermon, on Psalm ix.16. for the ever memorable victory at Culloden, April 16, 1746. With an abridgement of the history of that unnatural rebellion. To which is added an appendix, in Two Parts: Containing I. The Wanderings of Charles, the Pretender's Son, for Five Months after his Defeat, about the Isles and Highlands of Scotland, till he escaped to France. II. A View of the most remarkable Providences of God, in delivering this Kingdom from Popery and Tyranny, within Two Hundred Years last past.
Toms, Isaac, 1710-1801.Date: [1776]- Books
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The fading flowers of life. A sermon Preached to young persons At Peckham-Surry, Feb. 19, 1748-9. Wherein The frailty of Human Life is Illustrated-This constitution of Providence is Vindicated-Counsel and Comfort are addressed to Parents and Young Persons. On occasion Of the Death of Master Richard Holmes, Feb. 12. Aged xiii Years and 5 Months: only child of Mr. Thomas Holmes, Hosier. By John Milner, D. D. Nos quoque floruimus; sed slos fuit ille caducus: Flammaque de stipula nostra, brevisque fuit. Ov. trist. 5, 8, 19.
Milner, John, 1718-1779.Date: MDCCXLIX. [1749]- Books
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The old, old, very old man: or, the age and long life of Thomas Parr, the son of John Parr of Winnington, in the parish of Alberbury, in the county of Salop, or Shropshire, who was born in the reign of King Edward IV. being aged 152 years and odd Months. his Manner of Life and Conversation in so long a Pilgrimage; his Marriages, and his bringing up to London, about the end of September last. 1635. Whereunto is added, A Postscript, shewing the many remarkable Accidents that happen'd in the Life of this Old Man. Written by John Taylor.
Taylor, John, 1580-1653.Date: MDCCIII. [1703] [i.e. 1704?]- Books
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An authentic journal of the remarkable and bloody siege of Bergen-op-Zoom, by the French, under M. de Lowendahl. Begun July 14, and ended September 16, N.S. 1747; When the Place was taken by Storm, after as brave a Defence and desperate an Attack, of two Months and two Days, as ever was known. To the Journal is prefix'd a Description of the City and Marquisate of Bergen; and the Whole is illustrated by Notes explaining the Terms used in Fortification, Gunnery, &c. By an English volunteer, late of the garrison of Bergen-op-Zoom.
English volunteer.Date: MDCCXLVII. [1747]- Books
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The flower-Garden display'd, in above four hundred curious representations of the most beautiful flowers; Regularly dispos'd in the respective Months of their Blossom, Curiously engrav'd on copper-plates from the designs of Mr. Furber and others, And Coloured to the Life. With the description and history of each plant and the method of their culture; whether in Stoves, Green-Houses, Hot-Beds, Glass-Cases, Open Borders, or against Walls. Very Useful. Not only for the Curious in Gardening, but the Prints likewise for Painters, Carvers, Japaners, &c. also for the Ladies, as Patterns for Working, and Painting in Water-Colours; or Furniture for the Closet.
Date: MDCCXXXII. [1732]- Books
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French pronunciation and reading made easy: or; the logographic-emblematical French spelling-book. Being a Method by which any Child, Four or Five Years old, and of ever so slow an Apprehension, although perfectly unacquainted with his Letters, will, in a few Months, be enabled to read French fluently, and pronounce it as if he were a Parisian born. To which are added instructions to enable any Person to put this Method in Practice; as likewise Certificates and other Vouchers of the Efficacy of the same. Published by M. Lenoir, Author of the Practique de L'Orateur Francois, de L'Eloge Funebre de Louis XVI, &c. and a Professor of the French Language, Elocution, and Belles-Lettres.
Lenoir, P. V.Date: 1799- Books
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The regal table, exhibiting, in a concise and accurate manner, the times of the commencement and conclusion of every sovereign's reign, from William the Conqueror, to His present Majesty, King George the third; and the exact Years. Months, and Days they severally reigned. Together with The Year of each Reign in progressive Order, The Year of the Lord corresponding to the Year of each Reign, and The Number of years since the Conquest. Necessary in all Colleges, Libraries, and for Members of both Houses of Parliament, Historians, Professors of the Law, and other studious and learned Persons; also very proper to be inuoduced into all Schools and Places of public of private Education.
Date: MDCCLXXX. [1780]