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New tables, shewing I. The value of any quantity of stock at any price. Also the Quantity of Stock that any Sum of Money will purchase. The Answer is given in Pounds, Shillings, Pence, and the Decimal Parts of a Penny. II. What interest is made per cent per annum of any Purchase from £ 60 to £ 200 per Cent, at 3, 3 1/2, 4, 4 1/2, 5, 5 1/2, 6 and 7 per Cent. III. The number of days from any day in one month to the same day in any other month. to the same Day in any other Month. IV. Of interest, at 3, 31/2, 4 and 5 per cent per annum, from £ 1 to £ 1000, for One Day to 100 Days, 200 and 300 Days, and for one Month to 12 Months. V. How to find by the Table of Interest at 5 per Cent the Amount of wages for any number of days, for any Sum from 10s. to £ 1000 per Annum. VI. For the ready calling up of interest, at 2 1/2, 3, 3 1/2, 4, 4 1/2, and 5 per Cent. Vii. Shewing the present value of an annuity of £1, from One Year to Sixty Years, at 3, 3 1/2, 4 and 5 per Cent. Viii. Shewing the present state of transferable annuities at the Bank of England, South Sea and India Houses, with the Days and House of Transfering and Payment of Interest, and also the Holidays observed at the Publick Offices. By John Stonehouse. And examined by William Chapman, of the Bank of England.
Stonehouse, John, active 18th century.Date: M.DCC.LX. [1760]- Books
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The vvorth of a penny, or, A caution to keep money : VVith the causes of the scarcity and misery of the want thereof, in these hard and merciless times: as also how to save it, in our diet, apparel, recreations, &c. And also what honest courses men in want may take to live. By Henry Peacham Mr. in Arts, sometime of Trinity Colledge Cambridge. Now newly reprinted according to order, and made more publick than heretofore: with some additions of notes in the margin; and the Greek and Latin sentences Englished. Now last of all, are added some grave sentences, with many learned observations, in a different letter from the former: with a catalogue of the Bills of Mortality, from 1642. to 1669. Printed this 12:h of January, 1669.
Peacham, Henry, approximately 1576-approximately 1643Date: 1669 [i.e. 1670]- Books
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The history of Charles Jones, the footman / Written by himself.
Jones, Charles, active approximately 1800.Date: [Between 1805? and 1818?]- Books
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The history of Mary Wood, the housemaid, or, The danger of false excuses.
Date: [Between 1805? and 1818?]- Books
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The cottage cook; or, Mrs. Jones's cheap dishes. Shewing the way to do much good with little money.
Date: [Between 1805? and 1818?]- Pictures
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A young woman with folded hands giving thanks to heaven, an older woman points to a crowd carrying a young man wrapped in a blanket. Engraving by W. Sedgwick after E. Penny, 1780.
Penny, Edward, 1714-1791.Date: 1780Reference: 20004i- Pictures
A girl fainting and collapsing into the arms of a woman, in the background is a similar scene of a fainting man. Engraving by W. Sedgwick after E. Penny.
Penny, Edward, 1714-1791.Reference: 20002i- Books
Toxicogenomics / T. Inoue, W.D. Pennie, eds.
Date: [2003], ©2003- Books
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On the detection of aconite by its physiological action : being notes of experiments made in connection with the trial of Dr. E. W. Pritchard / by Frederick Penny and James Adams.
Penny, Frederick, 1816-1869.Date: [1865]- Books
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Dreadful news from Taunton-Dean. God's judgment against jealous persons; being the whole account of the most horrid murder committed by Sir William Watts, who most cruelly murdered his lady and two small children, for which he was tried and cast at the last assizes, and executed for the same. With the solemn declaration he made at the place of execution; and the substance of a sermon preached by the Rev. Mr. Butler.
Date: [1720?]- Books
Journal of a voyage in Baffin's bay and Barrow straits, in the years 1850-1851 ... : under the command of Mr. William Penney, in search of the missing crews of H. M. ships, Erebus and Terror ... / by Peter C. Sutherland.
Sutherland, Peter C.Date: 1852- Books
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On the detection of aconite by its physiological action : being notes of experiments made in connection with the trial of Dr. E.W. Pritchard / by Frederick Penny and James Adams.
Date: 1865- Books
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A new, authentic, and complete collection of voyages round the world, undertaken and performed by royal authority. Containing an authentic, ... history of Captain Cook's first, second, third and last voyages, ... To which will be added, genuine narratives of other voyage ... It is proper to observe, that some other editions of these works ... would cost a purchaser ... upwards of twenty guineas; ... but the present edition, by being published in only eighty six-penny numbers, ... enables every person, ... to become familiary [sic] acquainted with those ... voyages ... Now publishing under the immediate direction of George William Anderson, ...
Date: 1784[-86]- Videos
Awakenings.
Date: 1990- Books
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Second annual report of the Williams Secular School.
Williams Secular School.Date: 1851- Pictures
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A crowd of figures with the heads of animals carry banners and beat drums as they form a procession; representing the City of London Volunteers. Engraving by William Henry Toms after E. Heemskerk.
Heemskerck, Egbert van, 1634 or 1635-1704.Date: 1700-1799Reference: 31705i- Books
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The new Bristol guide: containing its antiquities, deduced from the best authorities: historic annals from William the Conqueror 1066 to 1799; progress, present state, navigation, trade, buildings, public edifices, churches, chapels, meeting-houses, schools, hospitals, charities, and other particulars, informing and useful to travellers, and those who visit or reside in this ancient and extensive city. Also, distinct and improved accounts of the Hotwells and Clifton. Descriptions of cities, towns, seats, antiquities and curiosities in the vicinity, and counties of Glocester and Somerset. Brief biography of some eminent natives of Bristol: memoirs of Chatterton the juvenile poet, &c. To which are added, list of bankers; regulation of general and penny posts; of hackney coaches; and directions for passing the Severn, at Aust and the new passages.
Heath, George, Rev.Date: 1799- Books
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Particulars and conditions of sale of sundry capital and singularly eligible freehold estates, in the counties of Essex, Suffolk, and Bucks, the property of Thomas Staunton, Esq; decd. Consisting of the Capital and Extensive manor of stow, In the Parish of Great samford; The manors of little samford and tewes, With courts baron, royalties, &c. stored with game; a mansion house, sundry Capital farms, a wind mill. The Fighting Cocks Inn, and several Messuages, Cottages, and Tenements, in the Parishes of Great and Little Samford, containing together about one thousand and eighty-nine acres, Of rich Arable, Meadow, Pasture, and Wood Lands, Situate about Four Miles from Thaxsted, and Seven from Sapron Walden, in the most Pleasant and Fertile Part of the county of essex, Part of which is in hand, and the Rest greatly underlet to responsible Tenants at will, viz. Mess. Peter Portway, John Coe, John Dench, Robert Goulstone, Peter Portway, Jun. William Stock, James Philpot, &c. at Annual Rents, amounting together to near eight hundred pounds, But capable of considerable Improvement. The capital and extensive manors of peasenhall, colstonhall, and baddinghamhall, With courts baron, royalties, quit rents, &c. A capital messuage or mansion house, Called sibton great house, With proper offices, gardens, and paled paddock, containing forty-eight acres. The Great Tythes of Sibton and Peasenhall, and sundry Farms and Tenements, in the Parish of Sibton, Lying contiguous, and situate within Four Miles of Saxmundham, Six of Dunwich, and Seven of Halesworth, near the Sea Coast, in a pleasant and fertile Part of the county of suffolk, containing together Three Hundred and Forty-Two acres and upwards Of excellent Arable, Meadow, Pasture, and Wood Land, Part of which is in Hand and the Rest greatly underlet to responsible Tenants, viz. Mess. Edmond Turner, John Turner, James Cumberland Bentley, and Joseph Baggot, all of which, except Joseph Baggot, are Tenants at Will, at Annual Rents, amounting together to Four Hundred and Ninety-One Pounds and upwards, But capable of considerable Improvement. The perpetual advowson and right of presentation to the Vicarage of Sibton, with the Church or Chapel of Peasenhall, of the Annual Value of about £80. the present Incumbent aged about Forty Years. The Lordship and grange of smeunes of great Extent, With court baron, royalties, fishery, &c. stored with game; two eligible farms, and capital water paper mills, In the parishes of soulbury and breckhill, Within Three Miles of Penny Stratford, and Four of Wooburn, in the county of bucks, And two tenements and gardens, In the parish of wooburn, in the county of bedford, containing together ninety-four acres and upwards Of excellent land, and much underlet to Mr. Horne and Son, John Franklin, and Joseph Body, at Annual Rents, amounting together to One Hundred and Twelve Pounds Ten Shillings, But capable of considerable Improvement. Which (by Order of the Trustees) will be sold by auction by Mr. Christie, At his Great Room, Pall Mall, on Tuesday, April 17th, 1792, at One O'Clock. In ten lots.
Christie, Mr. (James), 1730-1803.Date: 1792]- Books
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One penny-worth of truth, from Thomas Bull to his brother John.
Jones, William, 1726-1800.Date: 1792]- Books
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First annual report of the Williams Secular School.
Williams Secular School.Date: 1850- Books
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Report of the annual examinations of Mr Williams' Secular School : held at Edinburgh on the 29th and 30th July, and the 1st August 1851.
Williams Secular School.Date: 1851- Books
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Proclamation anent the old fourteen-shilling-pieces, and their halfs, and the old fourty-penny-pieces.
Scotland. Sovereign (1694-1702: William II)Date: 1701- Books
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Two penny-worth of truth for a penny; or a true state of facts: with an apology for Tom Bull in a letter to brother John.
Jebb, Ann, 1735-1812.Date: 1793- Books
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Two penny-worth of truth for a penny; or a true state of facts: with an apology for Tom Bull in a letter to Brother John.
Jebb, Ann, 1735-1812.Date: 1793- Books
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Circulated by the East-Kent and Canterbury Association. One penny-worth of truth from Thomas Bull to his brother John.
Jones, William, 1726-1800.Date: 1793]