The secretary's guide [electronic resource] : In four parts. Parts I. Containing variety of forms for inditing letters upon any subject whatsoever, in the most elegant and refined stile now made use of: with epithets to persons of all ranks and qualities. Part II. Choice forms and precedents for writing acquittances, bills, bonds, judgments, defeasances, letters of attorney, deeds of gifts, wills, assignments, counter-securities, bills of sale, letters of license, indentures for apprentices, inland and foreign bills of exchange, &c. Part III. An account of time, in minutes. Hours, days, weeks, months, and years; with a perpetual almanack, shewing the day of the month for ever: fixed feasts and remarkable days; table of Kings and Queens: eclipses of the sun and moon, and their causes, shewing when they will be eclipsed for ever. Also how to find the moon's rising and setting at any time: signs of weather; a chronology from the creation to this present year. Tables of annuities, expences and wages; an exact catalogue of all the roads and post-stages, with the number of miles. The method of the general post, shewing what days letters may be sent, and whither; with the rates of the carriage of the foreign and inland letters: also the method of the penny-post, and several other things necessary, &c. Part IV. A short, but comprehensive English dictionary, alphabetically explaining all hard and difficult words. &c. Written by G. F. gent.