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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]- Books
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Gallen. 1683 : A compleat pocket almanack for the year of our Lord 1683. Being the third after leap-year. Containing the lunations, eclipses, aspects of the planets, and inclination of the air. Accomodated with variety of necessary rules, tables and directions, suitable to all mens occasions. With the measuring of land, and gauging of vessels. Also, the fairs and roads in England and Wales, alphabetically disposed, in a more plain and orderly manner, than they were ever yet published in. By Tho. Gallen Mathemat.
Gallen, ThomasDate: 1683- Books
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For mending the roads of England: it's proposed. That every parish set up bars (about five miles distant from each other) cross the roads; ...
J. P.Date: 1715?]- Books
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The true and deplorable case of the waggoners, Carryers of Goods into and from the City of London.
Date: 1707]- Books
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A description of the road from London to Bath and Bristol; with every thing worth notice in the way. By the Rev. Dr. Trusler.
Trusler, John, 1735-1820.Date: 1797- Books
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Goldsmith, 1696. An almanack for the year of our Lord God, 1696 : Being bissertile or Leap-year. Wherein are contained many necessary rules and useful tables. With a description of the high-ways, marts and fairs in England and Wales. The like not extant in any other. Calculated by John Goldsmith. To which is added divers tables and other useful things which have not been in former edit.
Goldsmith, John, active 17th centuryDate: 1696- Books
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Perkins. A new almanack, for the year of our Lord God, 1690 : Being the second after leap-year, and from the worlds creation, according to sacred writ, 5639 years. Composed, and chiefly referred to the famous city of London; but (without sensible error) may serve for any other place in Great Britain. Adorned with a compendious chronology of things worth remembrance, since the creation to this present year; as also, the weather, the sun & moons rising & setting, with the high-wayes, &c. and many other useful things, proper for such a work. The like not extant by any other, being of general use for all men. Made, and set forth by F. Perkins, student in the mathematicks.
Perkins, F. (Francis)Date: 1690- Books
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The compleat book of knowledge: treating of the wisdom of the antients : and shewing the various and wonderful operations of the signs and planets, and other celestial constellations, on the bodies of men, women and children; and the mighty influences they have upon those that are born under them. Compiled by the learned Albubetes, Benesaphan, Erra Pater, and other of the antients. To which is added, the country man's kalendar; with his daily practice, and perpetual prognostication for weather, according to Albumazar, Ptolomy, and others. Together with a catalogue of all the market-towns, fairs, and roads in England and Wales. All those who peruse this book, must own, that it the knowledge gives of things unknown.
Date: 1698- Books
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Goldsmith, 1685. An almanack for the year of our Lord God, 1685 : Being first after Leapyear. Wherein are contained many necessary rules and useful tables. With a description of the high-ways, marts and fairs in England and Wales. The like not extant in any other. Calculated by John Goldsmith. To which is added divers tables and other useful things which have not been in former years.
Goldsmith, John, active 17th centuryDate: 1685- Books
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A new and accurate description of the present great roads and the principal cross roads of England and Wales, commencing at London, and continued to the farthest Parts of the Kingdom, with the several Branches leading out of them; and a Description of the several Towns that stand thereon. Divided into Four Parts, Viz. Western, Northern, Eastern, and Southern. To which are added, the ancient Roman roads and stations in Britain. Also Some General Rules to know the Original of the Names of Places in England, a List of Mitred Abbots, and an Alphabetical List of Fairs regulated according to the New Style.
Date: 1756- Books
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An actual survey of all the principal roads of England and Wales; described by one hundred maps from copper plates. On which are delineated all the cities, towns, villages, churches, houses, and places of note throughout each road. As also directions to the curious traveller what is worth observing throughout his journey. The whole described in the most easy and intelligible manner. First perform'd and publish'd by John Ogilby, Esq; and now improved, very much corrected, and made portable by John Senex. F.R.S. In 2 vol.
Ogilby, John, 1600-1676.Date: [1742?]- Books
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An act for the amendment of publick roads, for directing the power of grand juries, respecting presentments, and for repealing several laws heretofore made for those purposes.
Ireland.Date: 1798- Books
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The case of the inhabitants for fifty or sixty miles round London; and likewise of the city and suburbs.
Date: 1708?]- Books
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The traveller's pocket-companion: Or, A compleat description of the roads, in tables of their computed and measured distances, by an actual survey and mensuration by the wheel, from London to all the considerable cities and towns in England and Wales; together with the mail-roads, and their several stages, and the cross-roads from one city or eminent town to another. With directions what turnings are to be avoided in going or returning on journeys, and instructions for riding post. To which is annexed, a new survey-map, which shews the market-days, and remarkable things; the whole laid down in a manner that strangers may travel without any other guide. Also an account of the expences of sending a letter or pacquet by express from the general post-office, without loss of time, to any part of Great Britain. To which is added, an appendix, containing a further description of the roads. Also, W. Tompion's measure of the roads to Bath, for the use of those who travel in post-charises. Likewise, an exact alphabetical list of all the stage-coaches and carriers, with the days and places they set out from London, and the parts adjacent. The second edition. By a person who has belonged to the publick offices upwards of twenty years.
Person who has belonged to the publick offices upwards of twenty years.Date: 1743