The shopkeeper's and tradesman's assistant: being a new and correct alphabetical list of all the stage coaches, carriers, coasting vessels, &c. containing An Account of the Inns in London where the Coaches and Carriers put up and go out from; the Days of the Week, and Hours of those Days, when they set out; the Counties in which the Places lie, and their Distance in Miles from London; with the Wharfs, Keys and Stairs, where the Vessels, Barges and Boats usually lie to take in Goods and Passengers. Likewise a Collection of the most common Shilling and Eighteen Penny Fares for Hackney Coaches, and the Rates of Watermen. Also the Rates paid to Carmen for the Cartage of Goods, together with their Orders and Ordinances, as settled by the Lord-Mayor, &c. at a General Quarter Sessions of the Peace, holden for the City of London, at the Guildhall. To which is Prifixed A correct List of all the Mail Coaches, with The Names of all the Carriers, the Inns they put up at, and the Principal Places they go to. The Whole being well digested, is designed as a proper Assistant for Shopkeepers, Tradesmen and others, who have Occasion to write, or send Goods into the Country.

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1792
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London : printed and sold by Richard & Henry Causton (successors to the late Mr. Henry Kent) at the Printing Office, No. 21, in Finch-Lane, near the Royal-Exchange; and by the Booksellers and Pamphlet Shops of London and Westminster, 1792.

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136, 28p. ; 120.

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ESTC T14306

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Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2003. (Eighteenth century collections online). Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.

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