Holden's triennial directory, 1799
: (In numbers.) Containing upwards of seventy thousand names; (which will be near sixty thousand more than any other.) The same being an alphabetical reference to the bankers, merchants, manufacturers, wholesale traders, shopkeepers, wharfingers, inn keepers, ship builders, &c. &c. Also the clergy, lawyer, physician, surgeon, apothecary, and private character. Likewise the name and residence of the nobility and gentry, with lists of the House of Commons, envoys at home and abroad, Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen, Directors of the bank, East India, South Sea, Hudson's Bay, and all other companies; with all the public offices, public bodies, &c. &c. within the metropolis and the villages around