JOHN DAVIDSON,
MERCHANT,
At NEWBIGGING, near DRUMLITHIE,
Sells the FOLLOWING GOODS at the lowest Prices.
MY Customers all of different Ranks,
To you I do return my Thanks,
For all your former Favours granted,
A grateful Sense I never wanted.
That you may be the better sorted,
Ive bought my Goods the last imported:
And what I sell, that you may know,
Is noted in the Bill below.
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HEresLint and Tow, both white and blue,
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All Sorts of Cards, both old and new;
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Powder-Sugar, Starch, and Soap,
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Garden-Seeds of last Years Crop.
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Fine Pearl-ashes, Corks, and Spice,
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Sugar-candy, Cards and Dice,
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White-Iron Mugs to hold your Drink,
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Writing Paper, Pens and Ink.
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Barley here instead of Grotts,
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Honey-canes and Chamber-Pots,
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Napkins made at Aberdeen,
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Ginger too, both white and green.
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English Wool, and Factory Backs,
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Wafers, and some Sticks of Wax.
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Brimstone, and the Flour of such,
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With other Things to cure the Itch.
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Tar and Iron, Salt and Lead,
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Raisins, Allum, and Ginger-bread,
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Rock-Indigo thats good and true,
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With † What dye cat, for hasty Blue.
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Snuff-Boxes, Bibles, Carlisle Hooks,
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New Testaments and good Prayer Books,
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Good Epsom here and Glauber Salts,
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With other Physick, free of Faults.
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Senna Leaf, Rhubarb, and Pills,
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Rosin, Birse, and Timber Heels,
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Oxycrotion, Wax of Bees,
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Empty Casks, and Dry-ware Trees,
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Garters, Tapes, Bone Combs and Horn,
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Fine Tobacco, twist or shorn,
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Story Books of unco Stuff,
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And I sell John Cushnies Snuff.
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New English Hops, none better grows,
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Fine pickt Ropes and other Tows,
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Heres good salt Butter in whole Kitts,
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Horses Girths and sniffle Bits.
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Turpentine Oil, and fine sweet Sack,
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Burgundy Pitch, and good Lampblack,
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Metal Pots both great and sma,
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And Carron Hoops just fit to ca.
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Train Oil I have and also Green,
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Spectacles to fit your Een,
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Sleeve Buttons, Needles, Pins and Awls,
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Copperas and Aleppo Galls.
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Melasses, Cinnamon, and Glue,
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Saddle-Tacks, and Saffron too;
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Black Beer, Vinegar, and Honey,
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Goods for Trust or Ready-Money.
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Fresh Rye Grass, and Clover Seed,
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Buckram, Cords, and colourd Thread,
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Metal Buttons, Hair and Horn,
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All sorts thats in the Country worn.
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Earthen Plates, and small brown Mugs,
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White Iron Mills, and bigger Jugs,
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Moyhair and fine silk Threads,
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Carvy too and Annise Seeds.
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White Soap, Gunpowder, Flints and Shot,
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And Timber Cats, theyre but a Groat,
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Dram Glasses, Vials, Wheeling Wire,
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Tobacco Pipes, and other Geir.
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† Brazil and Verdigrease.
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Fine white Thread and Cambrick Knitting,
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Good Cheques to sell that sit for Metting,
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A foreign Herb sometimes they drink it,
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With many other useful Trinket.
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All sorts of Gun-stones here enew,
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White Iron Cakes, and Button Blue,
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Of Liquorish I have a share,
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And Weavers Brushes, several Pair.
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Leather Points of good Sheep-hides,
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Twenty other Things besides,
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All sorts of Nails and Stobs I keep,
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Wi guid Woo Sheers to clip your [sheep.]
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Most kinds of Stone Ware here you[ll see]
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With Cups and Saucers fit for Tea
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Large white Bowls, and Quart Decanters,
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Tea Pots too for those thats Wanters.
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Gimblets here of any size,
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‡ Of Chamber Pots Ill tell you twice;
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Youll may be think I dot for sport,
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But I can shew you any sort.
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Glasgow Napkins great and small,
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Button Moulds and Vitriol,
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Nutmegs and Sugar allogrease,
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Fine ground Mustard and Scots Cheese
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For want of Good if you should fre[t]
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§ At any Time Ill sell dry Skate,
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The best Wheel Bands I eer did [handle]
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With Mustard Boxes and White Candle
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Ive finest Flour of English make,
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And if you please, the same Ill Bake;
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That is a Branch I still pursue,
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Heres Loaves and Biskets always New.
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Likewise your Meal, Bear, Rye, or Oat,
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Ill Bake a Firlot for a Groat;
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I keep an Oven always warm,
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But with your Meal pray send me Barm.
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And Wives and Lasses far and near,
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To you Ive other sort o Geir;
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And I may swear and not be cheated,
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That a the Parish coud no beat it.
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Its Factory Lint from Gordons Mills.
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Whose Character the Mearns fills,
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And my Advice I give you a,
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Come take it eer the Prices fa,
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Now when you have read oer this List,
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Theres other Things that I have mist[?]
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Quick Silver, different Kinds of Saw,
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Amongst the rest, one for the Claw,
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Brazilicon, Dipalme, Hemp,
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Harvest Gloves for those that Kemp,
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More useful Things I might advise,
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Troth heres good Ointment for the lay
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Now if youll be so very good,
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As come to me, I think you shoud;
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If youve but little for to spend,
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Ill thank you kindly, come or send.
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Now tho I have some Things forgot,
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What Goods I have is a new bought,
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Im at a Word, I like no Prigging,
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My Names John Davidson at Newbigging.
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‡ Stone and Earth ones of all Sorts.
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§Sold at 25. per lib.
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