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… entry for Foster Cunliffe and Sons’, The National Archives, Kew, London, E 190/1427/5. Image Wencelus Hollar, ‘The Royal Exchange’, Met Museum, 29.102.128, 1647. Image Index of letters from Africa House in London to Royal African Company merchants in James Fort, Gambia, 1720-1737’, The National Archives, Kew, London, T 70/55. Résumé …

… in public lectures offered to paying audiences. As epistemic practices, they were shaped by conventions forged in the Royal Society of London after its formation in 1660. The Royal Society had coalesced as a microcosm of the restored social order in England after the upheavals of the civil wars … several coffeehouses, including Button’s in Covent Garden, Douglas’s in St. Martin’s Lane, and the Marine near the Royal Exchange. The Huguenot refugee John Theophilus Desaguliers assumed a similar profile, having studied at Oxford University …