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vertifers defcribe the fituations in which 
they lived. Each tradefman had a fign 
over his door, and, in order to render this 
a ftriking and fufficient diftinétion, they 
were obliged, in many cafes, to refort to 
very extraordinary combinations, an in- 
flance of which has been given in the cafe 
of T. Rocks, who lived at the Lamb and 
Ink-bottle. As it might be very incon- 
venient to wander up and down a ftreet in 
fearch of a hen, they were fometimes led 
to give names to the different parts of it, 
fome of which were rather curious: thus 
William Johnfon’s fhop was in Amen- 
comer, at the end of Paternofter-row. 
When no fuch name exifted, the tradefmen 
directed their purchalers by mentioning 
fome place of general notoriety near which 
they were fituated : thus Richard Lowndes 
was to be found ‘* at the White Lyon, 
near the little north dore of St. Paul’s 
Church.”” The advertifement concerning 
the Duke of York’s dog was inferted on 
account of a remarkable, though diftant, 
conneétion it has with a circumitance men- 
tioned by Hume. The Duke went, in 
3682, by fea to Scotland, and in his voy- 
age the fhip ftruck on a fand-bank, and 
was loft. The Duke efcaped in the barge, 
and the popular cry was, that, though 
many perfons of rank and quality perifh- 
ed, and, among tiie reit, his brother-in-law, 
i was very careful to fave fome of his 
dogs and priefts. His carrying with him 
the dog which is advertifed, and in all pro- 
bability others, in his proprefs into York- 
fhire, where he made only a very fhort re- 
fidence, difcoyers that partiality to the 
{pecies on which the acculation was 
grounded. 
QUACK-DOCTORS. 
Rowland Pepin, famous for cure of the 
rupiure ov broken-belly thefle fitty years, 
makes ea‘y truffles of all kinds, and lives 
in Naked-boy Court, near Strand-bridge, 
without Temple-bar, London—where the 
poor may be relieved for charity. 
Mr.. Edmund Buckworth’s famous Lo- 
zenges for the cure of confumptions, 
coughs, catarhes, colds, and ptificks, &c. 
Mr. Matthew's excellent pill, which pur- 
geth by fweat.and urine. The wxiverfal 
pill, made by Mr. Lionel Lackier, at the 
three Boars’ Heads, over againit the Meal- 
market,in Southwark. All three fold by 
Richard Lowndes, bookfeller, at the White 
Lyon, near the little north dore of St. 
Paul's Church. ~ 
Dr: Taylor’s approved lozenges, gaod 
ageinit conlumptions, rhumes, “catarrhs, 
all manner of coughs and colds: and are 
of fo extraordinary a virtue to cleanfe 
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the head, and preferve the lungs, that 
they have preferved the author to one hun- 
‘dred years old, though his lungs were pe- 
rifhed when he was but twenty. They 
are alfo excellent to ftrengthen the fto- 
mach, and expel wind, and to be had at 
Mr. Souche’s fhop, ftationer, near the 
weft dore of the Temple Church, and no 
where elfe, fealed up in papers, fome 
at 2s. 6d. and fome at 1s. 
ConftantineRhodocanaces, Grecian, hath 
at a fimall price that admirable preferva- 
tive againf the plague, wherewith Hippo- 
crates, the Prince of all Phyficians, pre- 
ferved the whole land of Greece; as alfo 
a moft excellent medicament 4for the can- 
cer in the breaft, to be taken inwardly, 
and cure it without cutting. Another 
again(t confumptions, another againft le- 
profie; and, becaufe his Alexicacus Spirit 
of Salt of the World, prepared not after a 
commen, but philofophical, way, hath 
wrought moft excellent cures againft feve- 
ral difeafes both in men, women, and 
children, even to admiration, therefore he 
publifhes, that they are all to be had in 
London, next dore to the 3 King’s Inn, 
in Southampton-builcings, near the King? s 
Gate, Holborn. 
An excellent prefervative againf the 
plague, peftilence, noifoim {mells, aad cor- 
rupt ayre, prepared byR.T.Med. Sold by 
T. Rocks, at the Lamb and ink-bottle, at 
the eat end of St. Paul's Church Yard, 
in fealed papers, at 2s. 6d. a paper, with 
direftions for the ufe thereof. 
One Dogtor Stephanus Chrifelitus, a 
famous phyfician, lately arrived in thefe 
parts, having travelled in feveral coun- 
tries, which have been infeéted by the 
plague, hath found by experience to be 
very beneficial (by the bleffing of God) 
for preventing the infection thereof, to eat 
raifins of the fun in the morning, fatting, 
aiid Malaga raifins either baked or boiled: 
and this he hath publifhed for the publi¢ 
good. 
ADVERTISEMENTS OF BOOKS. 
The Life of Mr. R. Hooker, the author 
of thofe learned Bocks of the Laws of Ec- 
clefiafticai Polity, by Ifaac Walton. Sold 
by Richard Marriot at his fhop, under thé 
King’s Head Tavern, over againft the In- 
ner-temple- gate, Fleet- ftreet. 
Villare Anglicum, or a View of the 
Towns of England, collected by the ap- 
pointment of Sir Henry Spelman. Printed 
by R. Hodgkinfon, and fold at his houfe 
ever againft Baynard’s Caftle in Thames- 
fireet. 
A Box of Spikenard, or a Little Manual . 
of Sacramental Inftruction and Devotion, 
aes 
