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Georgian Newspaper Project
Find out about life in Georgian Bath.
This database contains brief summaries of articles, advertisements and notices in the Bath Chronicle newspaper, for selected years between 1770 and 1800.
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| Goods: auction - neat & exceedingly good furniture belonging to a gentleman, at 8 Duke St, Bath on Thu 21 June et seq. 1787 by C Trimnell (of Westgate St). Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 999/ article:2 d |
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| Industry: thread mnfrs in Scotland - (underestimates) c.500 machines, 200 twining ounce threads consume 2400 spindles of yarn & make 480,00 spindles value £108,000; 300 machines for twining, stitching or pound threads in colour, consume 2000 spindles make 600,000 spindles at 3s 3d/each when manfctrd £112,000 Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1000/ article:3 b |
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| Finance: bankruptcy - Robert Hotchkin, linen draper, late of Newgate St London, more recently of Frome Selwood to surrender to Cmssnrs at house of Mrs Grant, Black Dog Inn, Standerwick Common, on 28 & 29 June & 21 July. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1001/ article:3 b |
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| Notices: James White, c. 21 yrs, footman to Thomas Locke, esq of Devizes eloped from his master's service on 7 June. Not to be taken into service until he has returned to his master & been lawfully discharged. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1002/ article:3 b |
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| Leisure: Villa Gardens - public afternoon tea with French horns & clarinets etc on Thu 14 June. Tickets 1s each with tea or coffee. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1003/ article:3 c |
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| Leisure: Villa Gardens - benefit Signor Invetto, grand display of fireworks on Mon 18th June. As the performance has great expense, Sgnr Invetto humbly solicits the company of the nobility & gentry and generous public. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1004/ article:3 c |
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| Property: to let - several pieces of land near turnpike on Upper Bristol Road running from road to river at 1s 9d per lugg. Apply Mr Robert Forman, attorney at law, Bath. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1005/ article:3 c |
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| Property: for sale - 2 messuages in Kingsmead & 1 in Cucumber Lane held for remainder of 2 good lives to commence at Michaelmas. Apply W Percival, attorney, Bath. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1006/ article:3 c |
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| Goods: auction - all neat household goods & furniture, at 6 Orange Grove on Fri 15 June by J Stafford Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1007/ article:3 c |
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| Goods: auction - all neat household goods & furniture. On the premises 34 Rivers St, Bath on Wed 20 June by Edmund English (undertaker, Broad St). Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1008/ article:3 c |
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| Leisure: Spring Gardens Vauxhall - concert with vocal & instrumental music & illuminations & fireworks on Tue 19 June. Tickets 1s at gate; or Mr Pritchard, Parade Coffee House. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1009/ article:3 d |
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| Leisure: Spring Gardens - public tea with French horns & clarinets on Thu 14 June, & every Thursday during the season. Tickets 1s with tea or coffee. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1010/ article:3 d |
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| Services: to rough masons, any persons willing to contract for 1800 perch of rough wall to form an embankment may apply to Mr Baldwin architect, also anyone willing to repair a road from Bathwick Fields to Claverton. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1011/ article:3 d |
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| Travel: postcoach from White Hart Bath on Mon 18 June thereafter Mon, Wed & Fri at 6.30 am to Crown Inn, Weymouth. Inside 1 guin, outside 12s, calling at Mr Chappell's, The Bell Inn, Shepton Mallet. Proprietors will not be accountable for any parcels. [Performer/s not given] Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1012/ article:3 d |
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| Goods: Farr's hosiers, Westgate St, Bath - selling under prime cost, the entire stock consisting of bathing dresses, durants, tammies, thicksets & fustians etc. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1013/ article:3 d |
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| Goods: Prynn & Collins, 26 Market Place Bath have an astonishing quantity of linen drapery of every description, dimitties 18d/yard, calicoes 13d/yard etc. Light gold taken. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1014/ article:3 d |
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| Visitors: arrivals in Bath - Their Graces Duke & Duchess of Devonshire; Lord Bishop of Ossory; Lady & 2 Misses More; Hon Mrs Boyle; Mr & Lady Caroline Price; Sir Bouchier Wray & Lady; Dean of Kildare. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1015/ article:3 d |
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| Visitors: Their Graces of Devonshire were last night at Spring Gardens with illustrious foreigners, La Duchesse de Polignac & daughter Diane. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1016/ article:3 d |
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| Marriages: Capt Wm. Hurst of the garrison of Plymouth to Miss Sarah Davies, only daughter of late Mr John Davies, distiller of Warminster, at St James's Church yesterday. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1017/ article:3 d |
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| Marriages: Mr William Hacker, carpenter & joiner of Luckington Wilts to Miss Elizabeth Bell, mantua maker on Sunday last. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1018/ article:3 d |
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| Military: Somerset County Militia reviewed at Wells last Monday. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1019/ article:3 d |
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| Churches: new Baptist House at Rode, nr Frome, Somrst - built by voluntary subscription, opened for Divine worship last Thursday. Rev Mr Parsons, snr of Bath preached one of the sermons. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1020/ article:3 d |
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| Leisure: Theatre Royal Bath - Saturday, "Merry Wives of Windsor" with "Peeping Tom" Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1021/ article:3 d |
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| Science: ## our great astronomer Mr Herschel has discovered 3 volcanoes on the moon, the principal one is still burning & ejects great quantities of smoke & lava. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1022/ article:4:00 AM |
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| Crime: James Raines, apprentice to James Simes of Paulton, ran away without just cause, anyone employing him will be prosecuted. He is 5' 9" high with a scar over eye & a burn on right cheek, white waistcoat & leather breeches. 6 June Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1023/ article:4 c |
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| Goods: Charles Ford, ironmonger, corner of Barton Street leading to Beauford Sq, Bath is now selling his stock at prime cost. NB the house is also to be let. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1024/ article:1 c |
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| Finance: Excise duties on coffee & cocoa nuts revived. Excise offices open daily, exc Sun & Bank Holidays, for receipt of entries of warehouses, rooms, etc & stock. (Excise Office, London, 6 June) Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1025/ article:1 c |
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| Notices: parish of Dyrham & Hinton etc - discontinuation of Revels held in parish. Victuallers or alehouses not to sell ale or liquor at these times (except to travellers) under penalty. From Wm Blathwayt, esq (Lord of Manor); Rev Peter Grand (Rector); curate; churchwardens; & overseers Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1026/ article:1 c |
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| Law: Summer Assizes, Western Circuit - Mr Justice Buller, & Mr Justice Grose. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1027/ article:2 b |
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| Finance: bankruptcy - all persons indebted to estate of John Peterswald, tobacconist of Bath to pay same to Thomas Kirby, brandy merchant of James St, Bath. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1028/ article:2 c |
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| Finance: bankruptcy - creditors of John Adams, Chelwood, glass manufacturer & his father John Adams, snr, decd requested to meet at house of Eleazer Pickwick, White Hart Tavern, Stall St, Bath Mon 25 Jun . Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1029/ article:2 c |
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| Travel: Cirencester to Lambridge turnpike - meeting of trustees at house of Wm. Turner, Beaufort Arms, Petty France on Fri 27 July. To consider erecting toll or side gate at Swainswick. James Ludlow, clerk. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1030/ article:2 d |
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| Agriculture: it is now 222 years since potatoes were first known in Europe, first imported into Ireland in reign of Queen Elizabeth, 1565 by John Hawkins. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1031/ article:3:00 AM |
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| Law: Court of Common Pleas, matter concerning all the yeomanry of England came to be argued, re. action against a farmer for not allowing the wives to glean after crop in wheatfield carried off the ground, called in Old English "leazing". Judges reserved their opinions to a future day Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1032/ article:3 b |
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| Services: diploma obtained by Jacob [Jacobus - James] Whittick, Guinea Lane, Bath showing he is a "Canine Professor of Physic" Bath. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1033/ article:3 b |
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| Employment: wanted - a man-servant for a small family in the country to be employed in house & stable & occasionally garden. Apply Mrs Drewett, Belvedere; or Mr Drewett, Colerne. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1034/ article:3 c |
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| Education: Mrs Butler (late Miss Collins) & Miss Whitaker, both for many years employed as assistants at Mrs Pulleine's boarding school Bath. On Mon 16 July will open a boarding school for young ladies at Frome on road leading to Warminster. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1035/ article:3 c |
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| Finance: persons indebted to estate of Mr John Humphrey, late of Huntley Farm, Corsley parish, to pay debts to Mr Pitman Warren of Warminster Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1036/ article:3 c |
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| Services: Mrs Cary acquaints those who drink the waters that her terms for renting the pumps expires first week in July and requests payment by that time (21 June 1787). Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1037/ article:3 d |
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| Inns: James Martin has taken the Hare & Hounds, Mount Pleasant, Widcombe. NB the florist's feast will be kept on 26th inst., no man to show a flower that is not his own raising. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1038/ article:3 d |
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| Visitors: arrivals in Bath - The Countess of Plymouth, Sir Edward Lloyd & Lady, Sir William Parsons, Sir Edward Littleton, Hon Mrs Harley [NOTP], Majors Shaw & Farquhar. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1039/ article:3 d |
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| Marriages: Edward Woolls, esq of Alresford Hants to Miss Letitia Taylor of New King St, Bath at Queen Square Chapel by Rev Mr Sibley on Monday. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1040/ article:3 d |
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| Deaths: Miss Harford, daughter of late Mr J. Harford, apothecary of Bath, suddenly on Thursday at Mr Gunston's, her brother in law, near Shaftesbury. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1041/ article:3 d |
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| Deaths: Mrs Thompson of the Crescent, at Hotwells, Bristol on 16th June . Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1042/ article:3 d |
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| Deaths: Mr Thomas Whitaker, clothier, in prime of life after a short illness at Melksham on Friday. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1043/ article:3 d |
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| Crime: ## by order of the Mayor of Bath, several measures with elastic bottoms were seized last week from country gardeners hawking their goods about the street, & being found deficient & burnt. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1044/ article:3 d |
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| Visitors: The French ambassador, The Duke & Duchess of Polignac and the other noble foreigners in their suite took leave of Bath on Saturday last. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1045/ article:3 d |
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| News: Bath is probably indebted to the late commercial treaty for having entertained for a whole month the French noblesse who spent their Louis d'ors liberally. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1046/ article:3 d |
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| Deaths: daughter aged about 13 yrs, of Mr Thomas Abbott, clerk of the Chapel on the Square drowned in river by South Parade on Mon p.m. She fell over & drowned although only in the water for 13 minutes. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1047/ article:3 d |
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| News: the boiling house of Mr Colman, chandler, in Walcot Street took fire on Saturday am, & was consumed with implements, stock etc therein. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1048/ article:3 d |