The present state of London: or, Memorials comprehending a full and succinct account of the ancient and modern state thereof. By Tho. De-Laune, Gent

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The present state of London: or, Memorials comprehending a full and succinct account of the ancient and modern state thereof. By Tho. De-Laune, Gent
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De Laune, Thomas, d. 1685.
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London :: printed by George Larkin, for Enoch Prosser and John How, at the Rose and Crown, and Seven Stars, in Sweetings-Alley, near the Royal Exchange in Cornhil,
1681.
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London (England) -- History -- 17th century.
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"The present state of London: or, Memorials comprehending a full and succinct account of the ancient and modern state thereof. By Tho. De-Laune, Gent." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A37482.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 1, 2024.

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Page 305

. Of the Trade of London into the Country.

OF this we need say no more, but what is expressed already, it being so Universally known to the whole Land; The Londoners using to supply all the Trading places of the Kingdom, especially on great Fairs, to which they resort in great Numbers, and af∣ford their Goods at the best hand; to their own and their Countries great Benefit; and in Requital, the Adjacent Counties supply the City with all manner of Necessaries for Food, Hay, Fuel, &c. insomuch that Strangers have admired at the Prodigious plenty of all Sorts that are to be seen in the Great and well Furnish∣ed Markets of Leaden-Hall, Stocks, Milk-shreet, Newgate, Clare, South-hampton, St. Albans, Westmin∣ster, Hungerford and Brooks, with several others; so that here is a perpetual Mart, where any sort of Goods may be Purchased at a Convenient and Rea∣sonable Rate. Nor is there any Place in the King∣dom where Poor People (or such as would be very Frugal) may live Cheaper; or the Splendid Liver, Gallanter, &c.

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