Pojis for conveying letters, 



i95l|Pofts in China go loo or 250 miles in a day i, 457 



+76 Ports eftablifhed ill France - - 695 



481 Now introduced in England and Scotland 69« 

 543 Letters go from London to Edinburgh in 4 



days - - - . ii, gon 



631 A poli-mafter for foreign parts appointed 369 



S35 A regular port eftablifhed in England 383 



637 Alfo between London and Paris - 400 



653-54 Portage of the three kingdoms farmed 450 



656 General poit-office for the three kingdoms 469 

 63o Rates of portage enafted — Privilege of franking 490 



663 Port-office revenue farmed at ;fji, 500 509 



676 Much increafed . . - 580 



683 Penny poft begun by Murray - 608 



^85 Revenue now eflimaied at £"65,000 - 6ii 



698,1699 Revenue of the poft-office - 509,707 

 711 Gener.1l port-office eftabhihed for tha whole 



Britirti empire — ievenuefor3 years iii, 13 



715 Average revenue in 4 years - 41 



7JJ Annual revenue - - - 113 



731 Letters cut of Lotidon pay a fecond penny jfip 



740 A rejubr port eftabiiihed in Turkey - j:4 :! 



764 PriviUge of franking regulated - 400 

 Revenue this year ... 403 



765 Portage raifed — other regulations - 415 

 767 Embezzlement of letters, &c made felony 466" 



783 Tlie Iriih port-office being now independent, 



new regulations are enacted - i^'i 43 



784 Poflage raifed — franking regulated - 49 

 — — Mail coaclies cftablirticd and other improve- 

 ments introduced by Mr. Palmer - 53 



785 Mail coaches exempted from tolls - 73 

 787 Packets run between Milford and Waterford 123 



794 New regulations for penny port — port-office 



and packet ertablirtied for Jerfey, &c 293 



795 Franking further reftnited - - 34 J 



796 Portage raifed - - - 385 

 799 Aft for conveying letters by private rtiips 47 1 

 801 Retrofpeifl of the revenue, charges, &c 5/7 



Pot-ajhci— See AJIns for mcnufaciures. 

 775 Potatoes may be imported from Ireland iii, 585 



795 They may be imported from all places iv, 335 



• Export and diftillery from p. prohibited 359,360 



799 Import permitted - - 476 



763 Potteriesin S>lafford-J}nre — fketch of their hiftory 

 — an improved kind of earthen ware now in. 

 troduced by Mr. Wedgwood, which has 

 become a great article in commerce iii, 380 



Numbers employed, and rtate of the manufac- 

 ture .... 3S2 

 Pounds — probable origin of reckoning money by 

 them - . . i, 208 n 

 '337 Prefs warrants — firrt mentioned . i, 516 

 1386 Firtiermen exempted from the prefs - 597 

 See Whale fijhery 



Prelious Jlones— Sec Diamonds, Qc. 

 Prices, wages, &c. 

 5o8*Of fheep and oxen in Rome 

 431 Pay of Lacedemonian failors 

 ' jO*i3*Wheat, &c and pay offoldiers 

 14 Vermilion — fine-wooled rams — tin 124,128,135 



Silk and bylTinus M their weight in gold 



- ' - - laSn, Hi,il6ji 



Sundry articles of luxury enormoufiy high 144 



f3 Murhine veffels ... 159/j 



Several oriental articles - - 178 



493 Wheat and wine in Italy - - 220 



552 Silk in Conflantinople - - -3'j^33 



690 A book fcid for 8 hides of Innd in England 242 



694 Sheep — rent cf land in England - 242 



loooll Slaves in Germany, &c . - 279,293'; 



Befuje io66 Land, (beep, wool, in England 2X7,2X8 



I. 



6in 

 68-! 

 110,121 



Prices. [GENERAL 



1315 Law for a.niaximum price for food . i, 482 



1389 Juftices dircf^ed to fix the wages of tradcfmen, 



&c and prices of provifions . <>oi 



N. B. The prices in England and Scotland after 1066 



will be found in the Appendix No. UI. 

 1631 Prices current publirtied weekly by J. Day, who 

 1634 gets a' patent for 14 years . ii, 380 



Printing — See Literary' properly. 

 43*Printing by moveable types apparently known 



in foitie degree in Rome - . i, 119 



1423 Figures printed upon blocks - 65911= 



1440II Books printed with v-ooden blocks and after- 

 wards with types . . 658 

 1474 Printing introduced in England by Caxton 6S<t 

 A book printed at Oxford dated mcccclxviii 689^ 

 1507 The firrt notice of printing in Scotland 6S9 



Printed books exported from Venice, 

 1485 And now alfo from England . ^06 



1778 Manufacture of types brought to great perfec- 

 tion in England and Scotland, and books a 

 confiderable article of exportation . iii, 6-9 

 Printing vpon calico, mujlin, linen, &c. 

 §• Apparently praflifed in Egypt and Colchis i, 14,1 26 

 1676 Piintingupon calico introduced in England ii, 57J 

 1765 Englifli printed linen and calico exported to 



Holland ... iii, 4.25 



1782 Aft againrt enticing printers, or exporting 



blocks, plates, or utenlils for printing 71J 



1784 Additional duties laid on printed goods iv, 52 



1785 Duties altered . . . 75 



Printing much improved in England and Scotl. 80 



1787 Exclufive property of new "patterns fecured to 



the inventors for two months - 127,186 



1794 Extended to 3 months, and aft made perpetual 296 

 I79<),i8oo Quantity printed in England - 52S 



And in Scotland - - . - 530 



i*7-(/f o/"a'i«t, the king's antient prerogative i, 409 



1300 Amount of it in iiggand 1300 . 465 



130. ^33 Given up in confideration of new duties 



on all goods ... 469 



I35J Taken by the king ... 551 



1660 Pi iie wines exempted from duty - ii, 482 



1787 Prii'age not affetted by the fimplification of 



the duties - . iv, 124 



1781 Prize goods — regulations for them . iii, 685' 



The amount of them may be fcen in the yearly accounts 

 of imports in time of war. 

 ProjeSs — See Patents, Alchymy. 

 1680,1635 Several . - - ii, 596, 62r 



1695II Many for various banks, itc . 671,675 



1698 Many at this time - - 703 



1720 Thofe fet on foot afier 24th June 1718 re- 



ftrained by parliament, &c . iii, 87 



The frenzy for projefts, now called bubbles, 



rifes higher than ever - . 88 



A copious account of the Hown-up prices of 



ftocks, and of the bubbles, their prices, &c 90-99 



They vanilli at the writ ofyc2rir-/ac:"ai . lOO 



1704 /"roMi^i^ «tfrcj alfignable by iiidorfement ii, 732 

 1772 Privileges of bills, &cc extended to promifTory 



notes in Scotland 



1783 This extenfion made pcrpetiul 



■ ■ Pravijioni — See Corn ■ 

 154S Sellers of provKions not to combine 

 1550 Sale of p. enforced by proclamation 

 1660 May be exported, if not ahove certain prices 

 1666 Importation rigorourty prohibited 

 1670 Exportation permitted 

 1758 Import of faltedp. from Ireland permitted 

 1760 Importation from Ireland continued 

 1764 A general complaint of high prices 



May be imported from Ireland 



1 his aft annually renewed till 1776. 



