Barabbas: or, Honest Christopher in the compting-house : Containing a variety of interesting anecdotes founded upon fact, viz. Eton college. Dawson's tuition. The apt pupil. Kitty, and unjust steward, compared. Green's remittances prostitated. Cross's case displayed. The baker's dividend-a B. W-ms's affairs diabolical. The mourning widows. The orphan's tears. The injured workm[e]n The farmers cajol'd. Pretended mortgages. The Sham auction. Property defrauded. Equity exploded. Impudence protected. The tar catholicon. Honesty derided. Truth baffled an oath a foible. Bills protested. Tradesmen chagrined. Factors grinning. Lawyers laughing. Assignees conniving. Minute composition. The daughter's claim. The brother's pretension, the appraiser puzzled. Chancery beguiled. Certificate granted. By fraud obtained. The bankrupt caressed. The creditors insulted. By-standers confounded. The devil nonplus'd. With comments, serious and humourous, under each head, to render the whole a complete and cautionary advice to young gentlemen, intended for mercantile employment. By Samuel Kittridge.

Author/creator Kittridge, Samuel
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Publication InfoLondon : Printed and sold by the author, at his House in the Broad-Row, Ya mouth; sold also by J. and C. Berry, and M. Booth, Norwich; and by all the booksellers in town and country, [1775?]
Descriptionxii, 95, 1 unnumbered page ; 8⁰.
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References English Short Title Catalog, T188987.
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