Youth's introduction to trade and business: containing, I. Tables of the most usual clerk-like contractions of words; alike in Sound, but different in Signification; with Proper Directions, how to Address to Persons of Elevated Rank, and those in Office. II. Acquittances and promissory notes diversify'd, and adapted to such Circumstances as occur in Real Business. III. Variety of Bills of Parcels, and Bills on Book-Debts, to enter the Learner in the Manner and Methods of Commerce, and to make him ready at Computation. IV. Bills of Exchange, with Directions necessary for the right Understanding and Management of Remittances; several Orders for Goods, Letters of Credit, Invoyces, and other Merchant-Like Examples. V. Authentick Forms of such Law-Precedents, as are most frequently to be met with, in the Course of Traffick. VI. A Collection of Questions, to exemplify the Common Rules of Arithmetick and to reduce them to Practice. For the Use of Schools. Done upon the Plan of the late Col. Ayre's Essay, by M. Clare, School-Master in Soho-Square, London. With whom Youth may Board, and be fitted for Business.

Date:

MDCCXX. [1720]