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and 1 know them to be a great helper of bad stomachs, and restora- 

 tive to wake people, and I'll insure for their goodness." 

 . " If any will sell a free estate, within thirty miles of London, with 

 or without a house, to the value of 100 the year, or thereabout, I 

 can help to a customer." 



" If any have a place belonging to the law, or otherwise, that is 

 worth 1000 or 1200, I can help to a customer." 



"If anydivine or their relics, have complete sets of Manuscript 

 Sermons upon the Epistles and Gospels, the Church-catechism, or 

 Festivals, I can help to a customer." 



" A fair house in Eastcheap, next to the Flower-de-liz, now in the 

 tenure of a smith, with a fair yard, laid with free stone, and a vault 

 underneath, with a cellar under the shop, done with the same stone, 

 is to be sold : I have the disposal of it." 



" I believe I could furnish all the nobility and gentry in England 

 with valuable servants, and such as can have very good recom- 

 mendation." 



" Mr. David Rose, chirurgeon and man-midwife, lives at the first 

 brick house on the right hand in Gun yard, Houndsditch, near Aid- 

 gate, London. I have known him these twenty years." 



" 1 want an apprentice for an eminent tallow-chandler.'* 



" If any want all kind of necessaries for corps, or funerals, I can 

 help to one who does assure me he will use them kindly ; and who- 

 ever can keep their corps till they can send to London, and have a 

 ready made coffin sent down, may afterwards have them kept any 

 reasonable time." 



" About forty miles from London is a schoolmaster, has had such 

 very great success with boys, as there are almost forty ministers and 

 schoolmasters that were his scholars. His wife also teaches girls 

 lace-making, plain-work, raising paste, sauces, and cookery, to the 

 degree of exactness. His price is 19, or 11 the year, with a pair 

 of sheets, and one spoon; to be returned, if desired: coaches and 

 other conveniences pass every day within half a mile of the house; 

 and 'tis but an easy day's journey to or from London." 



" I know of several men and women whose friends would gladly 

 have them matched ; which I'll endeavour to do, as from time to 

 time I shall hear of such whose circumstances are likely to agree ; 

 and if they ill come to me, it shall be done with all the honor and 

 secresie imaginable. Their own parents shall not manage it more 

 to their satisfaction : and the more comes to me, the better I shall 

 be able to serve 'em." 



From the above, it will be seen, that the advertisers were not in 

 the habit of giving their addresses, but the editor was to do all that 

 was necessary. He engaged to get places, to hire or let houses, to 

 sell all sorts of commodities, and last, not least, to make love for his 

 customers. It would be difficult to find an editor of the present 

 day, competent to undertake such various negociations. 



But a modern newspaper establishment greatly exceeds in magni- 

 tude any thing known in former times. Exclusive of a large com- 

 pany of printers, the editors, reporters, translators, and clerks, regu- 

 larly connected with a London newspaper, form a corps of from ten 



