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The merchant's assistant, and Clerk's Instructor: containing The Practical Part of business demonstrated in a Familiar, Regular, and Easy Method, adapted to all Capacities, and absolutely Necessary; especially to youth, for their greater Improvement. By J. Castro, Writing-Master, and Accountant; Also Teacher of the True Italian Method of Book-Keeping.
Castro, J., writing master.Date: MDCCXLII. [1742]
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General state of the Marine-Society, For fitting out landmen volunteers to serve as seamen on board the king's ships, in time of war, and for equipping distrest boys to serve at sea at all times. To the 31st of December; MDCCXCVII.
Marine Society (London, England)Date: MDCCXCVIII. [1798]
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The merchant's companion; Being a Complete System of Book-Keeping, in two sets, modernized, comprehending All the Varieties of the Art, Both in thoery and practice; with an appendix, containing the form and use of the Principal Books used by Merchants. Also Some Familiar Letters on Business, with Instructions how to pen them; Bills of Exchange, with their Explanation and Laws; Promissory Notes, and Acquittances; Bills of Parcels; the Form of a Bond, with its Condition; Letters of Licence and Attorney; a General Release; a Will; an Apprentice's Indenture, with its Bond; a Lease; a Bill of Sale; a Policy of Assurance of a Ship and Cargo; an Universal Table of all the Coins of the known World, reduced into British and Irish Money; Tables of Weights and Measures; Tables of Exchange, from England to Ireland, and from Ireland to England; a Table, shewing the Gain or Loss on the Exchange between Holland, England and Ireland; a Table shewing into how many Parts a Pound Weight of Silver hath been coined, from the Reign of Edward I. to the present Time. By William Kelly, Teacher of the Mathematics, Cork.
Kelly, William, -1793.Date: M,DCCLXXIV. [1774]
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A plan for arranging and balancing the accounts of landed estates. Inscribed to the Honourable Charles Yorke, Esq; solicitor general. By Corbyn Morris, Esq;
Morris, Corbyn, 1710-1779.Date: MDCCLIX. [1759]
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West Riding account. The account of money paid for raising, subsisting, and cloathing twenty-four companies of foot, and also trophy-money, and one month's subsistence of the company commanded by William Thornton, Esq; raised in the West Riding of the county of York, for the support of His Majesty's person and government, in consequence of the association entered into, and of the subscription begun, at the Castle of York, on the 24th day of September, 1745.
Date: 1745]
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Bedford Level. The subsequent account of William Brown, from January 15, 1765, to April 17, 1765.
Bedford Level Corporation.Date: 1765]
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The gentleman accomptant: or, an essay to unfold the mystery of accompts. By way of debtor and creditor, commonly called merchants accompts, and Applying the Same to the Concerns of the Nobility and Gentry of England. Shewing, I. The great Advantage of Gentlemens keeping their own Accompts, with Directions to Persons of Quality and Fortune. II. The Ruin that attends Men of Estates, by neglect of Accompts. III. The Usefulness of the Knowledge of Accompts, to such as are any way employed in the Publick Affairs of the Nation. IV. Of Banks; those of Venice and the Turkey Company. V. Of Stocks, and Stock-Jobbing; the Frauds therein detected. VI. A short and easy Vocabulary of Certain Words, that in the Language of Accompting take a Particular Meaning. Done by a person of honour.
North, Roger, 1653-1734.Date: 1714
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Bedford Level. The account of the officer of the North Level, from April 11, 1761, to February 26, 1762, viz. ...
Bedford Level Corporation.Date: 1762]
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The complete merchant's clerk: or, British and American Counting-House. In two parts. Part I. Contains a system of book-keeping, according to the Italian form of debtor and creditor, by double entry, as practised at this time by the merchants of Great-Britain, &c. comprehending the useful varieties incident to trade; and the method of balancing rendered familiar to the meanest capacity, by means of an open ledger: illustrated with plain and easy rules for journalizing; and a hint to the judicious on treating company accounts. Part II. Contains book-keeping in factory, as at present used in the sundry factories of America, and the West Indies. The knowledge of which will render any man capable of managing a set of books in any factory with facility and judgement; being found, by long experience, the best and most expeditious method for dispatch of business. Wherein is described the utility and necessity of that counter-part of the ledger, the sales-book, with directions for posting it; together with a summary of book-keeping for a wharf and plantation; calculated for the information of such as have occasion to go to America or the West-Indies in quality of factor, clerk, wharfinger, plantation-clerk, or overseer. The whole in a method founded on, and reducible to practice; by a series of examples made useful to the mercantile trader in the four quarters of the world. By William Weston, Merchant.
Weston, William, schoolmaster.Date: MDCCLXXXI. [1781]
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Clavis commercii: or, The key of commerce: Shewing, the true method of keeping merchants books, after the Italian manner of debtor and creditor; in one hundred and twenty propositions, containing most cases relating to merchandize. With a practical waste book, journal and ledger, and directions how to ballance the ledger, and transfer the ballance thereof, as an inventory into a new ledger. Designed for the help and assistance of young merchants, at their first entrance on their apprenticeship to their masters. By J.H. of London, merchant.
Hawkins, John, active 17th century.Date: 1704
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The American accomptant; being a plain, practical and systematic compendium of federal arithmetic; in three parts: designed for the use of schools, and specially calculated for the commercial meridian of the United States of America. By Chauncey Lee, A.M.
Lee, Chauncey, 1763-1842.Date: M,DCC,XCVII. [1797] (Published according to act of Congress)
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An abridgment of Mr. London's Complete system of book-keeping: Containing, Ist, Those excellent Rules for acquiring the Art of Book-Keeping, never printed before in any Language, by means of which Persons of but a common Genius, and not knowing any thing of the Matter before, have been actually taught how to state, post, examine, and ballance Books of Account, in which the whole Theory of that Art consists, and have also reduced it into Practice, the whole, in three Hours time, or less. 2dly, An Explanation of the Nature and Manner of keeping Accounts on a Merchant's Leidger, in two Sorts of Coin or Specie, at one and the same time; absolutely necessary to be used in case of Consignments abroad. 3dly, A full Demonstration of a most egregious Error committed by Mr. Webster, in his Essay on Book-Keeping, for want of knowing the Method just spoken of. And, 4thly, A Detection of some other very egregious Errors contained in the said Essay. To which is added, 5thly, The Manner of keeping Account of Bank, India, South Sea Stock, &c. after the Italian Method of Book-Keeping; drawn up at the Instance of a Proprietor in the Public Funds some time since, and now first published. By John London, late of Tiverton, Mercht.
London, John, merchant.Date: MDCCLVII. [1757]
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The accomptant's pocket-companion: a manual, instructing merchants, gentlemen of estates and others to begin their books, carry on their Business, and make a Ballance; where nothing is omitted which can occur in the Course of Trade. To which is added, the method of catching and curing cod-fish, ling, tusk, seath and white herrings, with Tables shewing the Charges and Profits on Fishing, and Directions about boyling Oyl. By John Drummond Merchant.
Drummond, John, Merchant.Date: Printed in the Year M.DCC.XXVIII. [1718]
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Bedford Level. The account of the officer of the North Level, from April 17, 1758, to January 7, 1759.
Bedford Level Corporation.Date: 1759]
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The book-keeper's guide. Wherein the theory of that art is clearly explain'd, and the practice render'd easy and familiar; in four parts. ... By Thomas Crosby, ...
Crosby, Thomas, 1665-1768.Date: 1749
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Amount of the bond and other debts of the East India Company, at their respective presidencies and settlements abroad; the rates of interest which such debts respectively carry; and the annual amount of such interest.
Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons.Date: 1787
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Book-Keeping methodiz'd: or, a methodical treatise of merchant-accompts, according to the Italian form. Wherein the theory of the art is fully explained, and reduced to Practice, by variety of suitable Examples in all the branches of trade. To which is added, a large appendix, Containing I. Descriptions and specimens of the Subsidiary Books used by merchants. II. Monies and Exchanges, the nature of Bills of Exchange, Promissory Notes, and Bills of Parcels. III. Precedents of Merchants Writings, peculiar to England, Scotland, and common to both. IV. The Commission, Duty, and Power of Factors. V. A short History of the Trading Companies in Great Britain, with an account of her exports and imports. VI. The produce and commerce of the Sugar Colonies; with a specimen of the accompts kept by the factors or storekeepers; and an explication of wharf and plantation accompts. Vii. The produce and commerce of the Tobacco Colonies; with a specimen of the accompts usually kept by the storekeepers. Viii. The method of keeping accompts proper for Shopkeepers or Retailers. IX. A dictionary, explaining abstruse words and terms that occur in merchandise. By John Mair, A.M.
Mair, John, 1702 or 1703-1769.Date: 1760
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The accountant's companion; or, schoolmaster's new assistant to practical arithmetic. Wherein The Rudiments of Common Arithmetic, Vulgar and Decimal Fractions, are delivered in a new and more concise Method than hitherto published. Whereby The vulgar Error of confounding Principles together, and the diversifying them into several Rules when they are built on the same Reason, is carefully avoided. With a sufficient variety of examples, Operated in the neatest and most approved Methods. Also the Extraction and Use of the square and cube roots, &c. With their Application to various Branches of the Mathematics. Duodecimals proved by practice, &c. And applied to Work performed by Joiners, Painters, Glaziers, Paviours, &c. To which is added, a course of book-keeping by single entry; Very necessary in facilitating the Acquisition of the Italian Method, and extremely useful for many Kinds of Business in which the latter is not materially wanted. The Whole adapted to the Use of Merchants, wholesale and retail Dealers in every Branch of Business. By J. Seally, Author of the Universal Tutor; or, New English Spelling-Book and Expositor, &c. and late Master of the Academy in Bridgewater-Square, Barbican, London.
Seally, John, approximately 1747-1795.Date: MDCCLXXIII. [1773]
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Bedford Level. The North Level account from January 7 to April 16, 1759.
Bedford Level Corporation.Date: 1759]
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Combe, mayor. A common council holden in the chamber of the Guildhall, of the city of London, on Tuesday the 17th day of June 1800. The committee for letting this city's lands did, this day, deliver into this court a report in writing, under their hands, of the arrears due to the city, at the decease of the late Chamberlain, and at Michaelmas last; ...
City of London (England). Corporation. Court of Common Council.Date: [1800]
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Mr. John Drage, the receiver and expenditor-general, in his account from the 25th day of April 1757, to the 25th day of April 1758, ...
Bedford Level Corporation.Date: 1758]
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Bedford Level. The account of the late officer of the north level, from January 11 to March 24, 1764.
Bedford Level Corporation.Date: 1764]
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The tradesman's director, or the London and Country Shopkeeper's Useful companion. Containing such instructions as will enable the shopkeeper to carry on his business with more ease and greater exactness than is usually done: Particularly shewing A most easy and useful Method of keeping Books of Accompts: And such Informations in regard to the Rules and Practice of Trade, and the best and cheapest Manner of buying Commodities, as must be of great Advantage to all Shopkeepers. The Whole comprising every Thing that can be useful in that Way: As Lists of English Manufactures, with the best Markets for them. Forms of Bills and Notes. Several useful and very necessary Tables. Plain Directions how to carry on Business, in such a Manner that the Shopkeeper may see his Profits every Day, and on each Commodity; know exactly what he stands indebted to each Dealer, and if any Mistake has happened in the Delivery of Goods, or by Overcharges, &c. and thereby prevent many Inconveniencies, and oftentimes great Losses, which happen by not keeping Accompts in a proper Manner. To which are added, Tables of Annuities, or how to purchase Land upon Lives, with many other useful Particulars.
Date: 1756
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The merchant's magazine: or, trades-man's treasury. Containing I. Arithmetick in Whole Numbers and Fractions, Vulgar and Decimal; with the Reason and Demonstration of each Rule: Adorn'd with curious Copper-Cutts of the chief Tables and Titles II. Merchants Accompts, or a most Concise Way of Casting up the Value of Merchandize, Tare and Trett, Interest of Coin, Rule of Barter, Loss and Gain, Fellowship, Equation of Payments, and several Matters relating to Exchange, Never before made Publick. III. Book-Keeping, after a Plain, Easie and Natural Method shewing how to Enter, Post, Close and Ballance an Accompt; &c. IV. Maxims concerning Bills of Exchange, Factors and Factorage: The Law concerning Brokers, &c. V. The Port of Letters to and from Foreign Countries; and the Days when Mails are sent to, and due from those Countries. VI. An Account of the Commodities produced by all Countries; Their chief Towns of Trade, and Bigness of the Country compar'd with England. Vii. A Merchant or Trader's Dictionary, Explaining the most Difficult Terms used in Trade. Viii. Precedents of Merchants Writings; as, Bills of Lading, Invoyces, Bills of Exchange, Letters of Credit, Chapter-Parties, &c. With many other Things not Extant before, as by the Table of Contents appears. Accommodated chiefly to the Practice of Merchants and Trades-Men: But is likewise useful for Schools, Bankers, Diversion of Gentlemen, Business of Mechanicks, and Officers of the King's Custom and Excise. The fourth edition corrected and improv'd. By E. Hatton, Gent.
Hatton, Edward, 1664?-Date: MDCCI. [1701]
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Combe, mayor. A common council holden in the chamber of the Guildhall of the city of London, on Friday, the 25th day of April 1800. Mr. William Bond, principal clerk to the commissioners of Sewers, Lamps, and Pavements, did this day deliver into this court, pursuant to the order of the 12th of July 1785, an account of money received and paid by the Chamberlain, by order of the said commissioners, from Michaelmas 1798, to Michaelmas 1799, inclusive; which was read in these words: ...
City of London (England). Corporation. Court of Common Council.Date: [1800]