Part 3

Mower’s Waggon leaves his house for Louth, every Wednesday morning, and returns in the evening; leaves Horncastle for Boston, every Friday morning, and returns on Saturday.

Roberts’ Cart leaves Horncastle for Alford Market, on Tuesday morning, and returns in the evening.

Edwards’ Cast from Sleaford, arrives at the George Inn, every Friday afternoon, and returns on Saturday.

Thompson’s Cart leaves has house Boston Road, for Lincoln, every Thursday evening, and returns the following night; for Alford every Tuesday morning, and returns at night.

Fletcher’s Cart leaves his house Horncastle, every Tuesday and Friday, for Boston, and returns on the following evenings.

Carriers Carts which regularly attend Horncastle Saturday’s Market.

Towns and Villages. Carriers. Inns at Horncastle. Alford _Reed_ Red Lion Alford _Trolley_ George Barkwith _Porter_ George Belchford _Sutton_ Rodney Bardney _Dennis_ Maid’s Heads Benneworth _Wass_ Fighting Cocks Bucknall _Pilson_ Fighting Cocks Conningsby and Tattershall _Cooling_ Maid’s Heads Conningsby and Tattershall _Sharpe_ Red Lion Goulceby _Tomlinson_ Maid’s Heads Goulceby _Vester_ Rodney Kirkby _Wold_ Maid’s Heads Kirkstead _Lewis_ White Hart Louth _Cash_ Maid’s Heads Mareham-le-fen _Codd_ Maid’s Heads Martin _Cawden_ Fighting Cocks Minting _Cartwright_ Black Horse Minting _Addleshaw_ White Hart Minting _Danby_ White Hart New Bolingbroke _Newman_ Maid’s Heads New Bolingbroke _Wood_ Maid’s Heads Old Bolingbroke _Marshall_ Maid’s Heads Scamblesby _Smith_ Rodney Scamblesby _Parish_ Red Lion Somersby _Hewitt_ George Spilsby _Sargeant_ Red Lion Spilsby _Widle_ Maid’s Heads Spilsby _Lilley_ George Stixwold _Warrington_ Black Horse Tetford _Stevens_ Greyhound Tetford _Brackenbury_ Royal Oak Wragby and Lincoln _Silvester_ Black Horse Wragby and Lincoln _Dawkins_ George Wragby and Lincoln _Sandal_ Maid’s Heads

*** _Carriers are requested to inform D. Cussons when they change Inns_, _time of starting_, _&c._, _in order to have them inserted right in the next year’s almanack_.

CATALOGUE OF BOOKS, SELECTED FROM THE STOCK OF D. CUSSONS, BOOKSELLER, HORNCASTLE, AND OFFERED TO THE PUBLIC AT THE FOLLOWING PRICES.

JANUARY, 1837.

_Periodicals delivered in Horncastle on the First day in the Month_.

WEEKLY PARCELS FROM LONDON:

Orders up to Saturday Night, for any Works of Music not on hand, will ensure the delivery on the following Wednesday.

s. d. ABBOTT’S Child at Home,—Mother at Home—Fire 1 0 Side—Young Christian—Corner Stone, each — Parential Duties, and Golden Rules of Life 1 0 Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, and Life of 4 0 Selkirk, boards, Affection’s Gift, figured boards, gilt edges 2 0 All for Love, and the Pilgrim of Compostella, 2 0 by Southey Amaranth, suitable for a new year’s gift, 3 6 roan, gilt edges ANNUALS for 1837, a great variety, from 4s. 21 0 6d. to Annual Poesy, figured boards, gilt edges 2 0 Angelo’s Reminiscences, best edition, 4 6 half-calf, 8vo. ANNUAL REGISTER, from 1774 to 81, 1786 to 89, 36 0 calf, 12 vols. Antwerp and its Siege, in 1832, half cloth 2 6 Anxious Enquirer 1 6 Art of Being Happy, by B. H. Draper, embossed 4 6 roan, gt. edges Art of Confectionary, cloth 1 0 Æsop’s Fables, plates, sheep 3 6 Barbauld’s Hymns, 6d. Evenings at Home, 4 0 half-bound — Lessons, neat edition, half roan 2 6 Bard: a selection of Poetry, silk, gilt edges 4 0 Baxter’s Saints’ Everlasting Rest 3 0 Beauties of the British Poets, extra cloth, 7 6 12mo. Beauties of the Prose Works of Southey 3s. 3 6 6d. Poetical Works Beaufoy’s Guide for True Pilgrims 1 6 BIBLES, various sizes and bindings, elegant and plain Biscuit Baker’s and Pastry Cook’s Assistant 1 0 Blair’s Sermons complete in one vol., 8vo. 6 6 6s. 6d. Lectures Bloomfield’s Farmer’s Boy, &c. cloth, gilt 1 6 edges — Poetical Works, boards 2 0 Bogatzky’s Golden Treasury for the Children 2 0 of God, new edit Book of Fate, or Oracle of Human Destiny, 2 6 frontispiece Book of Private Prayer and Devotion 2 6 Boy’s Own Book, with numerous plates and 8 6 cuts, extra boards Bransby’s School Anthology, green roan 5 0 British Critic, vols. 12 to 17, 6 vols. 6 0 half-calf, 8vo. Bridal Gift, a selection of Poetry, 2s. 3 6 Embossed roan, gilt Brookes’s Apples of Gold 1 0 BROWN’S SELF-INTERPRETING BIBLE, new edition, 28 0 maps, 4to — bound in calf 34 0 — Diamond Concordance of the Scriptures 2 0 — Dictionary of the Bible, thick 12mo. 10 0 Brooks’s Gazetteer, neat calf, 8vo. 8 6 Buchan’s Domestic Medicine, 8vo. 7 6 BUFFONS’ NATURAL HISTORY, by Wright, a new 24 0 and greatly improved edition, 446 cuts, 4 vols. royal 18mo. Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress, new edit. 18mo. 6 0 2s. plates, 8vo. — Barren Fig Tree, 1s. Holy War 5 0 — Grace abounding to the Chief of Sinners 1 0 Burn’s Poetical Works, 18mo. with engravings 6 0 — Songs, with Life and Glossary 1 6 Burkitt’s Exposition of the New Testament, 20 0 4to. Byron’s Don Juan, foolscap, 3s. 6d. 32mo. 2 6 — Miscellaneous Works, containing Hours of 8 0 Idleness, English Bards and Scotch Reviewers, Hints from Horace, Curse of Minerva, Waltz, Age of Bronze, Vision, &c., 2 vols. Byron’s Life by Galt, 12mo. cloth 4 6 Caroline Mordaunt, by Mrs. Sherwood, roan 4 6 embossed gt. edge CALMET’S DICTIONARY OF THE BIBLE, by Taylor, 24 0 imp. 8vo. Childs Own Book, greatly improved, 3rd. ed. 7 6 with illustrations Child’s (Mrs.) Girl’s Own Book, with 144 wood 4 6 engravings — Mother’s Book, gilt edges, 4s. 6d. Story 3 0 Book, 26 cuts Children’s Books, a great variety, from one penny upwards Christian Bard, a selection of Sacred Poetry 3 0 Churchill’s Poems, 2 vols. 8vo. calf 4 0 Clarke on the Promises of Scripture 1 6 CLARKE’S (Dr. ADAM) COMMENTARY ON THE HOLY £5 5 0 SCRIPTURES, a new and beautiful edition, elegantly bound in cloth and lettered, 6 vols. imperial 8vo. — Works, fcap. in monthly vols. 6 0 Cobbett’s Legacy to Parsons, 1s. 6d. to 1 4 Labourers, 1s. 4d. to Peel Clater’s Cattle Doctor, new edition, 6s. 6 0 Farriery, 6s. Cookery Books in great variety from 6d. to 10 6 Collection of Prayers for Families 1 0 Complete Letter Writer, 2s. 6d. Modern 2 6 letter Writer, 1s. & Contributions for Youth, extra boards, plates 4 6 COWPER’S LIFE AND WORKS, by Grimshawe, 8 40 0 vols. 8vo. fcp — by Southey, 12 vols. 8vo. fcp. 60 0 — Poetical Works, with Life 4 0 Conversations at the Work Table by a Mother 3 6 Crabb’s Dictionary of General Knowledge, last 9 0 edit. 580 cuts CRUDEN’S CONCORDANCE of the Old and New 13 6 Testament Cyclopædia of 1000 popular Songs 5 0 Doddridges Rise and Progress 2s. 6d. 21 0 Expositor, imperial 8vo. Dodd’s Reflections on Death, 4s. Beauties of 3 6 Shakspeare Dolby’s Cook’s Dictionary, and Housekeeper’s 7 6 Directory Elegant Extracts, Epistles, royal 8vo. 10 6 English History made Easy, on a popular plan, 3 6 many plates Evenings at Home, by Mrs. Barbauld and Dr. 4 0 Aikin Evergreen, a selection, of Poetry, embossed 3 6 roan, gilt edges Falconer’s Shipwreck, and other Poems, cloth, 1 6 gilt edges Fisher’s Young Man’s Best Companion, bound 3 0 FLEETWOOD’S LIFE OF CHRIST, with Lives of the 18 0 Apostles and Evangelists, 9 engravings, 4to. cloth bds. beautiful edit. — second hand, 4to. sheep 6 6 Fool of Quality, or History of Henry Earl of 4 6 Moreland Forsyth’s Dictionary of Diet, second edition, 6 6 post 8vo. Frank and his Father, by B. H. Draper, 4 6 embossed roan, gilt ed. Gay’s Fables, 109 engravings, best edition, 3 0 32mo. Goldsmith’s Poetical Works, with a sketch of 5 6 his Life — Vicar of Wakefield, 4s. Poems 1 6 — History of the Earth and Animated Nature, 9 9 0 vols. Graham’s Modern Domestic Medicine, last 16 0 edition, 8vo. Gurney’s Dictionary of the Bible 3 0 Haddon’s Farmer’s Account Book 7 0 Harris’s Children’s Books, from 1s. to 8s. Harp of Zion, gilt edge, 1s. 6d. Harp of the 4 0 Desert, gilt edge Harding’s Stenography 3 0 Hill’s Village Dialogues, considerably 9 0 enlarged, 3 vols. 36 eng. Homer’s Iliad, turkey morocco, gilt edges, 7 6 7s. 6d. Oddysey HOPLAND’S (Mrs.) 5 0 Africa—Decision—Integrity—Moderation—Patience—Reflection—Self-Denial—Fortitude— gilt edges — half-crown books, 18 sorts Howard’s Beauties of Byron, cloth, gilt 2 6 edges. Hymns—for Sunday Schools, 9d. for Infant 1 6 Minds, Johnson’s Dictionary, diamond, 2s. octovo, 31 6 8s. Imperial 8vo. Juvenile Books, suitable for presents, ten 2 6 sorts, gilt edges Jest Books, Joe Miller’s, 3s. 6d. Cream of 3 6 the Jest Mirth in Miniature, 2s. Droll Story Teller, 0 6 1s. Gems of Wit Kirk White’s Remains, 3s. Poetical Works, 1 6 gilt edges Ladies Magazines, 8vo. half-calf, 3 vols. 3 0 Leslie’s Book of Sports, square 12mo. elegant 4 6 boards Maclock’s Natural History, 400 cuts, 12mo. 4 6 bound Map of Lincolnshire, 1s. 6d. ditto on canvas 1 6 for the pocket Maunder’s Treasury of Knowledge and Library 8 6 of Reference Memoirs of Mrs. Harriet Newell, neatly 1 8 half-bound, Mason’s Pocket Companion, 1s. Prayers for 1 0 Morning & Even. Maxwell’s History of the Bible, plates, 4 0 half-bound Milton’s Paradise Lost, new edition, cloth 2 6 gilt edges — Poetical Works 4 6 Midsummer Holidays at Briges Hall, 4 0 half-bound, plates Midland Gleaner, a selection of Sacred 1 6 Poetry, silk, gilt edges Modern Voyages and Discoveries:— Parry’s three Voyages of a north-west 12 0 passage, 4 vols. Franklin’s Journey to the Polar Sea, 4 12 0 vols. plates Denham and Clapperton’s Discoveries, 3 12 0 vols. plates Modern Confectionary, 2s. 6d. Modern Cookery 2 6 Modern Traveller: Sketches of Ancient 3 6 Biography, Poets, &c. Sketches of Ancient Biography, Warriors, 3 6 &c. Travels in Europe and Asia 3 6 Remarkable Voyages from the Discovery of 3 6 America More’s (Mrs. Hannah) Stories for persons of 3 6 the Middle Ranks — Tales for Common People 3 6 — on the system of Female Education 3 3 — Sacred Dramas, cloth, gilt edges 2 0 Mudie on the Earth, Heavens, Air and Sea, 5 0 12mo. boards, each Newton’s Works complete in one vol. 8vo. 12 0 New Year’s Token, for 1837 6 0 New Manual of Devotions 3 6 Olney Hymns, by Newton and Cowper 2 0 Owen’s Book of Fairs, 1s. 6d. Book of Roads 1 6 Nursery Book, square, cloth, numerous 3 6 engravings Pamphlets,—sixpenny and shilling, 50 sorts Penny Magazine, vols. one to five, cloth, 7 6 each Perennial Treasure, roan embossed, gill, 3 6 edges Percy Anecdotes, forty-one parts, stiff 2 0 cover, each Pike’s Persuasives to Early Piety, 1s. 1 0 Motives for Perseverance Pott’s Gazetteer, 2 vols. 8vo. half-calf, 5 6 neat copy Pigot and Co’s Directory, with Atlas, royal 2 25 0 8vo., Midland Prayers and Bibles, all sizes, in plain and elegant bindings Poor Law Union, (books, forms, and receipts for) Rate and Receipt Books, Forms, &c., for Parish Officers Register Forms, on parchment, for baptisms, 1 0 marriages &c. Reward Books and Presents, in great variety Rowe’s (Mrs) Devout Exercises of the Heart 1 6 Saturday Magazine, from commencement, cloth, 3 6 each Sacred Music, the most celebrated Psalm and 8 6 Hymn Tunes Scott’s Marmion, gilt edges, 2s. Lady of the 2 0 Lake, gilt edges — Lay of the Last Minstrel, gt. 1s. 6d. 2 6 Lyrical Pieces, &c. Sherwood’s (Mrs.) Works Shakespear’s Dramatic Works, 8vo. cloth, gilt 9 6 edges — Turkey morocco, gilt edges 12 0 Social Tales, by Mrs. Sherwood, embossed 4 6 roan, gilt edges Sphinx, (The) a collection of 500 enigmas, 1 6 charades, rebusses Stebbin’s Common Prayer, with notes, &c., 12 6 0 plates, 32mo. — New Testament, with notes, &c. 12 plates, 3 9 diamond Song Books—Quaver, 4s. 6d. British Melodist, 0 6 3s. 6d. Warbler — Harp of Orpheus, 2s. 6d. Roland’s Comic, 3 6 2s. 6d. Oliver’s Sturm’s Reflections, 2 vols. half-bound 9 0 Smith’s Manual of Theology, 9s. Compendium 10 6 of Theology Token of Remembrance, Affection, Friendship, 1 6 gilt edges, each Vicar of Wakefield, cloth, gilt edges 2 0 Walker’s Critical Pronouncing Dictionary, 7 0 8vo. half cloth — elegant pocket edition, 18mo. bound 5 0 Watts’ Psalms and Hymns, in plain and elegant bindings — Scripture History, 4s. World to Come 5s. 4 6 Logic Wesley’s Hymns, with the additional 6 0 Supplement, from 1s. 9d. to Webster’s Psalms and Hymns, bound 1 0 Whiston’s Flavius Josephus’s History of the 9 0 Wars of the Jews White’s Farriery, 12mo. 3 vols. half calf 10 6 Whites Natural History of Selborne, 4 6 embellished with 48 cuts Also a general assortment of English, Latin, Greek, and French School Books

HINTS TO THOSE WHO ASK, WHY SHOULD I CONTRIBUTE TO SUPPORT MISSIONS TO THE HEATHEN?

WHAT ARE THE OBJECTS OF SUCH MISSIONS? Are they not to make known the glorious Gospel of the blessed God; to institute Christian Schools; to erect places of Christian worship; to collect Christian societies; and thus to banish Pagan ignorance, Pagan vices, and Pagan cruelties, from the earth?

HAVE NOT SUCH OBJECTS BEEN ALREADY ACCOMPLISHED, TO A CERTAIN EXTENT, IN VARIOUS PARTS OF THE HEATHEN WORLD?—This is indisputable. Many in Asia, Africa, America, Australasia, and Polynesia, no longer worship idols; no longer destroy each other. Many mothers no more cast their children to the crocodiles, or drown them in rivers. Many aged and sick persons, who would have been cast out into the woods in age and infirmity, are now cherished by their children. Many thousands of children, in the different Mission Schools in India, Africa, the South-Sea inlands, and other places, are now reading the word of God, worshipping our Saviour, and singing his praises; who would otherwise have been trained up in idolatry, and all its polluting and degrading superstitions. Many adults have been brought to the knowledge of Christ; and many have died in peace and in the hope of heaven, whose sun would otherwise have set amid the dark and lowering clouds of Heathenism. Finally, the work, though in some places feeble, has been begun; it is spreading its enlightening and sanctifying influence among surrounding millions; and it exhibits to our faith and hope the dawn of the universal salvation.

ARE YOU A MAN?—Do you not then shudder at the miseries, and oppressions, and murders, which Heathenism is daily practising, and which Christianity brings to an end wherever it prevails? On the principle of common humanity and sympathy, you will then surely feel an interest in Missions, nor suffer the cry of slaughtered widows and children, and the voice of distress, pouring out its wailings from all lands, to reach your ears in vain.

ARE YOU A BRITON? Think of the vastness of the British Empire, comprising, at a low calculation, upwards of a HUNDRED MILLIONS of subjects, most of whom are Pagan idolaters. Why has Providence given us power, but to employ it so that, wherever it is felt, “mankind may feel our mercy too?” Shall we enjoy the advantages of that extensive commerce which so vast an empire gives to us; shall we revel in the luxuries of the West and of the East; shall we turn every colony to gain? and shall we neglect the souls of our fellow-subject? If we do so, we cannot be guiltless before Him who governs the world, and who will bless our blessings, or wither them, as we are faithful or unfaithful to the behests of His Providence. As a Briton, therefore, you are bound to support Missions, and by them to fill the whole empire with the blessings of that Christianity we enjoy at home.

DO YOU PROFESS TO BE A TRUE AND LIVELY CHRISTIAN?—Then you love your Saviour, and must desire that all should love and worship Him. Then you pray daily, “Thy kingdom come,” and must mean something when you thus pray, or you offer vain service, and mock God. Then you pity the ignorant, and weep over perishing souls; and, if so, you must, you will, do all you can to point them to “the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.”

ARE YOU A CHRISTIAN PARENT?—You look with joy and gratitude upon your rising family. You placed them, by holy baptism, in the arms of Jesus, that He might bless them. They are in covenant with Him. They hearken unto you, and you teach them the fear of the Lord. You send them into life, commended to God as their “sun and shield.” You rejoice in the hope of meeting them all again in the kingdom of Heaven. O happy Christian parent! O favoured Christian families!—families “whom Jesus loves.” But Missions are creating many such families among Negroes, Hottentots, Fejees, New Zealanders, the Friendly Islanders, the American Indians, and the Singalese. Many a Heathen hut resounds with praise; and parents and children, once idolaters, bow before the throne of grace in united family worship. Do not you rejoice in this? and will you not do your utmost to promote the cause of Christ, till all the families of the earth, like your own, are blessed in Him?

ARE YOU A CHRISTIAN CHILD?—What do you owe to Christ, whose adorable name you bear! But for the blessed Gospel, you had scarcely known your parents’ tender love. No prayers to the true God would have been offered by them on your behalf. You would have been a worshipper of the ugly, gloomy gods of Paganism. You might have been cast into a river, or turned out to perish in a wood; or, if not, you would have grown up in ignorance, vice, and misery. You would have had no education; never have read the blessed Bible; never have sung a hymn of praise to God, and would not have had, as now, the prospect of a happy, useful life, and a glorious heaven. O what do you owe to Christ! You feel that you ought to love Him, and how can you better show that you do love Him, than by pitying poor, ignorant Heathen children, and contributing some little of your spare money, to send them Ministers, to build them Schools, to buy them the Bible and holy books, and teach them all the blessed truths which you have learned of Christ, the Saviour of the world?

HAVE YOU LATELY BEEN MADE YOURSELF A PARTAKER OF THE GRACE OF CHRIST?—How much do you owe to Him who hath brought you “out of a horrible pit, and out of the miry clay;” and how ought you to pity all who are living “without hope and without God in the world!” When you felt the burden of sin, you heard of Christ, and his willingness to save.

“Dying, you heard the welcome sound, And pardon in his mercy found.”