• Media type: E-Book
  • Title: Vade mecum, or, The necessary companion
  • Other titles: Vade mecum
    Necessary companion
  • Contains: (from t.p.) Sir S. Morland's Perpetual almanack ... -- 2. The years of each king's reign from the Norman Conquest compar'd with the years of Christ -- 3. Directions for every month in the year, what is to be done in the orchard, kitchin, and flower-gardens -- 4. The reduction of weights, measures, and coins ... -- 5. A table wherein any number of farthings, half-pence, pence or shillings are readily cast up ... -- 6. The interest and rebate of money, the forbearance, discompt, and purchase of annuities -- 7. The rates of post-letters, both in-land and out-land -- 8. An account of the penny-post -- 9. The principal roads in England ... -- 10. The names of the counties, cities, and borough-towns in England and Wales, with the number of knights, citizens, and burgesses chosen therein to serve in Parliament -- 11. The usual and authorized rates or fares of coachmen, carmen, and watermen
  • Contributor: Playford, John [Author]; Morland, Samuel Sir [Other]
  • Published: London: Printed by W. Horton for T. and G. Sawbridge, 1692
    Farmington Hills, Mich: Thomson Gale
  • Issue: The 5th ed., with new additions
  • Extent: [8], 229, [3] p
  • Language: English
  • Keywords: Almanacs, English Early works to 1800 ; Interest Great Britain Early works to 1800 ; Ready-reckoners Early works to 1800
  • Reproduction series: The Making of the Modern World
  • Place of reproduction: Farmington Hills, Mich: Thomson Gale
  • Reproduction note: Available via the World Wide Web
  • Origination:
  • Footnote: Dedication signed (p. [3]): John Playford
    Goldsmiths'-Kress no. 02923
    OCLC, 20892130
    Reproduction of original from Goldsmiths' Library, University of London
    Wing, P2508