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A concise abstract of the most important clauses in the following interesting acts of Parliament, passed in the session of 1785; By which the Public in general are more immediately affected, than by any passed in any former Session, viz. Insurance, Game, Shops, Coachmakers, Coals, Servants, Pawnbrokers, Carriages, Gloves, And Posthorses. By a gentleman of the Inner-Temple.
Great Britain.Date: [1785]- Books
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Ridgway's abstract of the budget; or, ways and means for the year 1785, giving the essential particulars of every clause in the various acts, imposing the following Duties, Viz. Retail Shops, Men And Women Servants, Bachelors, Game, Gloves, Attornies At Law, Pawnbrokers, Coach-Makers, Wheel Carriages, Post Horses, Hawkers And Pedlars, &C. &C. Also a list of the new commissioners of land-tax. By a gentleman of the Temple.
Ridgway, James.Date: [1785?]- Books
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Duty on income, land tax, &c. Kearsley's annual ten-penny tax tables, for the year 1799; containing the duties on houses Windows Dogs Male Servants Bachelors Carriages with 4 or 2 Wheels Taxed Carts Horses for Pleasure or Draught, Mules. An accurate stamp table, Including the Regulations respecting Deeds, Bilis of Exchange, Notes, Receipts, Legacies, Hair-Powder Licences, Hats, Pawnbrokers, Perfumery, Quack Medicines; and Armorial Bearings; likewise the new duty upon income.
Kearsley, George, active 1791-1813.Date: [1799]- Books
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The present situation of pawnbrokers considered with some reasons for the intervention of the legislature in their favour. Humbly submitted to the public, by a pawnbroker.
Pawnbroker.Date: 1780?]- Books
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The honest man's companion: or, the family's safeguard. Illustrated with copper plates, and done at the Request of several Gentlemen and others, occasion'd by an Attorney's defying any Person to paint him or his Brotherhood in their proper Colours, or to propose any Method to regulate them, or their Practice. As also remarks upon Roman-Catholick lawyers practising as chamber-counsel and conveyancers, and the Danger and Consequences attending it; with the Author's own Case. Likewise Some Hints relating to the Clergy, Pleading Lawyers, Work-Houses, our Plantations, Prisons, Prisoners, Pawnbrokers, Bailiffs, and Felons; together with the Dying Speech of Wreathocke the Attorney.
Hodshon, Read.Date: 1736- Books
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Collction [sic] of lies, containing the whole art and mystery of lying or lies of all sorts. With the profits, commodities and advantages arising thereby, beginning with statesmens lies. Robirs lies. Courtiers lies. Parliament lies. Lords lies. Bishops lies. South Sea lies. Whigs lies. Tory lies. Judges lies. Lawyers lies. Bailiffs lies. Goalers lies. Aldermens lies. Citizens lies. Merchants lies. Stock-jobbers lies. Pawnbrokers lies. Goldsmiths lies. Authors lies. Printers lies. Booksellers lies. Church-wardens lies. Whoremasters lies. Coffee-house lies. Vintners lies. Bakers lies. Bauds lies, &c. To which is added, a list of the grand lyars that are remarkable for their proficiency in each particular occupation.
Date: [1725?]- Books
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The practice of pawnbrokers proved to be injurious to trade, an encouragement to rogues, and destructive to society. Together with an estimate of the necessary charge of a family in the middling station of life; consisting of a Man, his Wife, four Children, and a Maid Servant. demonstrating, that people in general may live without the assistance of pawnbrokers. By a lover of truth.
Lover of Truth.Date: MDCCLII. [1752]- Books
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Reasons against licensing pawnbrokers: Humbly offer'd to the consideration of the legislature, occasion'd by a bill for that purpose depending in the House of Commons. Wherein the pamphlet, intitl'd, An apology for the business of pawnbroking, is examined and confuted; and the practice of pawnbrokers in general prov'd to be injurious to trade, an encouragement to rogues, and destructive to society: demonstrated by variety of examples.
Date: 1745- Books
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A concise abstract of an Act of Parliament, passed the 24th of George III. for regulating the business of pawnbrokers, ... with an exact table of interest, allowed to be taken for money lent on pledges; ...
Date: [1784?]- Books
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Zachariah Sharp, and Phele Nettletop, & Co. Stockjobbers, moving lottery-office keepers, pawnbrokers and rat-catchers; ...
Date: 1785?]- Books
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Anno regni quadragesimo Georgii III. Regis. An act for amending and making perpetual the several laws for regulating the watch in the district of the Metropolis, And for granting a further duty upon pawnbrokers.
Ireland.Date: 1800- Pictures
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Two men are standing behind the counter of a pawnbroker's shop in London, examining some articles of clothing which have been brought in to pawn. Etching by George Cruikshank, 1836.
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.Date: 1836Reference: 29537i- Books
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The new Birmingham directory, and gentleman and tradesman's Compleat Memorandum Book: containing, a brief description of the town of Birmingham; with an account of its situation Extent, Manufactories, Churches, Schools, &c. A concise Account of that celebrated Manufactory, the Soho. An Alphabetical List of the Names, Trades, and Places of Abode, of the principal Inhabitants in Birmingham, together with a List of the Pawnbrokers. An Alphabetical List of all the Stage Waggons that come into, and go out of, Birmingham; the Places where they come from, and go to; the Names of their Owners; the Inns from whence they set out; and the Days on which they arrive and return. Fifty-Two ruled Leaves for Accounts of Receipts and Payments, Bills due, Appointments, and Occasional Memorandums, for every Week in the Year, and every Day in the Week. Table of Income, or Wages; and other useful Tables, &c. Embellished with A North East view of the Soho, neatly engraved on Copper.
Date: [1774?]- Books
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An apology for the business of pawn broking. By a Pawn-Broker.
Pawnbroker.Date: M.DCC.XLIV. [1744]- Books
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An apology for the business of pawn-broking. By a pawn-broker.
Pawnbroker.Date: M.DCC.XLIV. [1744]- Books
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An apology for the business of pawn-broking. By a pawn-broker.
Pawnbroker.Date: Printed in the Year M.DCC.XLIV. [1744]- Books
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A plan for preventing robberies within twenty miles of London. With an account of the rise and establishment of the real thieftakers. To which is added, advice to pawnbrokers, stable-keepers, and publicans. By John Fielding, Esq;
Fielding, John, Sir, 1721-1780.Date: MDCCLV. [1755]- Books
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A letter from a discounter in Bishopsgate-Street, to a pawnbroker in Long-Acre.
Wright, Abraham Ben Little.Date: MDCCXLV. [1745]- Books
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Kearsley's gentleman and tradesman's pocket ledger, for the year 1785. Containing Fifty-Two Ruled Pages for Receipts and Payments; also Spaces for Memorandums for every Day in the Year. Term Table A Table of Day and Night The two Houses of Parliament, with their Officers. Circuits of the Judges Abstracts of the New Window Act, and several other additional Taxes, which are now taking Place; viz. the Game, Horse, Hackney Coach, Pawnbrokers, Postage, Hats, Candles, Bricks and Tiles, Teas, and Linens and Cottons. To which is added a List of the Stamps, brought down to the present Time. Simple Interest from 1 to 1000l. for any Period, at 5 per Cent. Tables for Buying and Selling. Tables of daily and yearly Expence. Table of the Valuation of Annuities on single or joint Lives, at various Rates, from the London Bills of Mortality. Tables of Wages. An exact Account of the Days and Hours for buying and accepting, or selling and transferring, the several Stocks, or Government Securities, and receiving the Interest or Dividends due thereon, at the Bank, India House, and South Sea House. List of Persons who have returned successful from the East Indies. List of Bankers. Method of recovering Persons apparently drowned. Revenues of the different States of Europe. The Sovereigns of Europe. And a Variety of other Articles, equally useful, which are mentioned in the Table of Contents.
Kearsley, George, -1790.Date: [1785]- Books
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A plain answer to a late pamphlet, intitled, The business of pawnbroking stated and defended. Shewing the false reasoning, and mis-stating of several facts contained in that pamphlet. ... By an impartial hand.
Impartial hand.Date: 1745- Books
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1787. The eighty-first edition. Price 6d. Kearsley's Tax Tables, including those of 1787, with the stamp duties complete. Also the Taxes upon retail shops, Houses windows, Bachelors attorneys servants gloves, Hats, Notes Bills oe exchange receipts perfumery Farmingpost Horses Licences Insurance, Game Horses, Carriages Hawkers & Pedlars Hackney coaches Watermen pawnbrokers, &c. &c.
Kearsley, George, -1790.Date: [1787]- Pictures
A poor London street strewn with hopeless drunkards and lined with gin shops and a flourishing pawnbroker. Engraving, c. 1751, after W. Hogarth.
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.Date: publish'd according to Act of Parliamt. 1 February 1751Reference: 26961i- Books
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An abstract of the new Act in Parliament made in favour of pawn-brokers, with a table shewing what they have a right to charge for interest and Warehouse Room for any Sum of Money lent on Pledges. By R. Stainbank, Attorney at Law. N.B. Be careful it is signed R. Stainbank.
Great Britain.Date: [1784]- Books
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The law of pledges, or Pawns, As it was in Use amongst the Romans, and As it is now practiced in most Foreign Nations. Humbly Inscribed to a Member of Parliament, by John Ayliffe, Doctor of Laws.
Ayliffe, John, 1676-1732.Date: M.DCC.XXXII. [1732]- Books
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Money, banking and credit in mediaeval Bruges : Italian merchant-bankers Lombards and money changers, a study in the origins of banking / by Raymond de Roover.
De Roover, Raymond, 1904-1972Date: [1948], ©1948