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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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| Property: auction - lot 2/6, f/hold close "Babwell" ca 14 acr in Doynton parish in occuptn Mr Wm Nicholls; lot 3/6, 3 closes "Upper, Middle & Lower Townsend" ca 14 acr in Doynton parish, same occuptn. At Exchange Coffee House, Corn St, Bristol on 1 Jan by John Cherry. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 3214/ article:1 e |
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| Property: auction - lot 4/6, f/hold close " Little Field" ca 1 acr in Doynton parish in occuptn Wm Nicholls; lot 5/6, f/hold close "Wheat Land" ca 2 acr in Dyrham parish in possn Wm Nicholls. At Exchange Coffee House, Corn St, Bristol on 1 Jan by John Cherry. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 3215/ article:1 e |
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| Property: auction - lot 6/6, 2 f/hold closes ca 6 acres in Doynton, late in possn of Marchant Russell as tenant. At Exchange Coffee House, Corn St, Bristol on 1 Jan by John Cherry. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 3216/ article:1 e |
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| News: Sir James Tylney Long, bart 2 months old has succedded as heir entail to full £18,000 p.a in Essex & Wilts, as well as £120,000 in specie. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 3217/ article:2 b |
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| Deaths: Rev A Rudd, rector of Diddlesbury Shropshire & Reader at St Lawrence Ludlow, at Corston suddenly. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 3218/ article:2 c |
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| Agriculture: grain prices - Devizes 11 Dec, wheat 50-60s; beans 48-54s; hog peas 56-60s; barley 34-39s; oats 25-29s per qtr. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 3219/ article:2 c |
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| Agriculture: grain prices - Warminster, wheat 49-55s; barley 33-40s; oats 24s-27s; beans 48s-56s [per quarter]. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 3220/ article:2 c |
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| Agriculture: Mark Lane 15 Dec - total 4546 qtrs wheat sold at av price 57s 4¼d, 1s 1¼d higher than last week Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 3221/ article:2 c |
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| Agriculture: average price of grain throughout England 6 Dec - wheat 54s 6d; barley 34s 5d; rye 37s 9d; oats 21s 11d; beans 45s; peas 55s. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 3222/ article:2 c |
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| Goods: average price of sugar, w-e 10 Dec, 41s 8½d per cwt excluding customs duty. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 3223/ article:2 c |
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| Agriculture: price of seeds - red clover 30-90s; white clover 30-100s; trefoil 5-28s per cwt; caraway 16-22s; turnips 9-12s per bushel; ryegrass 16-24s; cinquefoil 26-36s per qtr. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 3224/ article:2 c |
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| Goods: bread prices - peck loaf to weigh 17lbs 6ozs cost 2s 9d; ½ peck 8lbs 11ozs, 16½d; quartern 4 lbs 3ozs 8dr, 8¼d. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 3225/ article:2 c |
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| Goods: meat prices - Smithfield 15 Dec, beef 2s6d-4s; mutton 3s-3s8d; veal 3s6d-5s; pork 3s-4s4d per stone of 8 lbs. Sold 2,300 beasts; 7,500 sheep. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 3226/ article:2 c |
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| Goods: meat prices - Newgate/ Leadenhall 15 Dec - by carcass, beef 2s-3s; mutton 2s 8d-3s 2d; veal 2s8d-4s8d; pork 3s-4s4d. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 3227/ article:2 c |
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| Agriculture: average price tallow 3s 1d per stone; skins (sheep) 2s6d - 5s; lambs 2s-3s; hay 80-88s; straw 20-25s6d; clover 90-96s Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 3228/ article:2 c |
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| Property: to let - neat house in New King Street by the month or year. Enquire Mr Plura. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 3229/ article:2 d |
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| Crime: ## stolen from Mr John Brewer, New Market Tavern on 13 Dec, leather bag containing 500 guin, tin box £40 in gold, 3 £10 Bank of England notes. 50 guin reward for discovery & conviction from John Brewer. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 3230/ article:2 d |
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| Agriculture: Bath & West of England Society - AGM on 9 Dec, with details of awards & new premiums to be added to the ensuring year. [Detailed]. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 3231/ article:2 d |
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| Agriculture: Bath & West of England Society - AGM 9 Dec. Total £91 1s 6d paid inc. £10 10s to Mr Lansdown for his apparatus for expelling foul air from coal mines; £5 5s to Dr Fothergill for his essay on pernicious effects of spirituous liquors; - - Lewis (Bath) £1 1s for implement for preventing injurious growth of horns of sheep Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 3232/ article:2 d |
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| Agriculture: Bath & West of England Society - AGM, 9 Dec. Sec has received 100 copies of Mr Billingsley's "Survey of Somerset" from the Board of Agriculture; also recvd additional number of copies of Mr Davies's "Survey of Wiltshire". Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 3233/ article:2 d |
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| Publications: short address to the Children of Sunday Schools & Schools of Industry, 2nd edition, with additions by Major Brooke, pubd today 1s. Mr Cruttwell, printer. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 3234/ article:2 e |
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| Property: to let - by month or year, gentleman's house fully furnished within a 6d fare of the Pump Room. Enquire 11 Duke Street. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 3235/ article:3:00 AM |
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| Fashion: Thomas Jones will continue the business of woollen drapers run by his late father in the Abbey Churchyard. (dated 16 Dec). Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 3236/ article:3:00 AM |
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| Fashion: A. Gordon (late [Alley] White), Wade's Passage, Bath. Has returned from London with fashionable articles in millinery line, also furs in muffs & tippets Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 3237/ article:3:00 AM |
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| Fashion: J. Gale quitting Bath selling entire stock of ladies & gents hats, gloves, lace & oil silk at 3 Wade's Passage. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 3238/ article:3:00 AM |
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| Publications: Jones's Circulating Library & Reading Rooms at Virgil's Head under the Colonnade. Subs 15s per year, 5s quarter & 2/6d per month. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 3239/ article:3:00 AM |
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| Finance: partnership between Catherine Ann Bradford, Julia Ann Graves & Ann Hereford, milliners in the Grove dissolved on 13 Dec. Miss Hereford has declined business, Catherine Bradford continuing at 40 Milsom St, & Julia Graves in the Grove. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 3240/ article:3 b |
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| Finance: Bank Stock 154¼; 5% shut; 4% 81 3/8ths a 80¾; 3% red 64 7/8 a 65 a 64½; ditto cons. shut; long ann 18¾; short ann 9; India stock - ; Exchange Bills 8 a 9s pr; Navy Bills 2 1/8th df; Lottery tickets £20.18s. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 3241/ article:3 c |
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| Leisure: Ball for the Master of Ceremonies at Lower Assembly Rooms 5 Jan. Tickets from Mr Tyson, Brunswick Pl; & Bull's & Marshall's Libraries. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 3242/ article:3 c |
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| Visitors: arrivals in Bath - Lady Dowager Asgill; Lady Clark; Lady Trite; Hon Mr & Mrs Banks; Hon Mrs Strangways; Hon Major St.John; Sir Montague Burgoyne; Sir George Potter; Sir Mathew Ridley & lady; Lady & Miss Trafford [NOTP]; Admiral & Mrs Crosby. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 3243/ article:3 c |
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| Marriages: Rev Richard Wynne to Miss Catherine Beevor Browne (his Lordship's niece) by special licence at Earl of Enniskillen's in Pulteney St, Bath, by special licence on Saturday Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 3244/ article:3 c |
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| Marriages: Mr Wm Evill of Milsom St, Bath to Miss Fox, daughter of Wm Fox, esq of Islington, London on Sunday. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 3245/ article:3 c |
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| Marriages: Mr Gordon to Miss White, milliner of Bath, at the Abbey Church on Sunday. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 3246/ article:3 c |
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| Marriages: Mr Richard Taylor of Yatton Keynel to Miss Archer, daughter of Mr Archer, linen draper on Sunday. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 3247/ article:3 c |
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| Deaths: -- Freeman, esq from the West Indies dropped dead on the corner of Lilliput Alley, Bath on Monday. He leaves an amiable widow & 5 children. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 3248/ article:3 c |
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| Deaths: John Tobin, esq formerly a West India Captain & merchant, at his home on St. James's Parade, Bath on Friday. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 3249/ article:3 c |
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| Deaths: Mrs Higgins, wife of Mr Higgins of James St, Bath in her 37th year, on Sunday Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 3250/ article:3 d |
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| Deaths: Mrs Brander, widow of Cha. Brander, esq of Nea [sic], Hants at her home on St. James's Parade Bath, aged 85 on Sunday. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 3251/ article:3 d |
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| Deaths: the remains of Miss Moffatt, daughter of Mr Moffatt of Ridgeway, Hants were interred in the Abbey on Sunday. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 3252/ article:3 d |
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| Military: ca. 200 soldiers of the 110th Regt of Foot, yesterday 400 passed through Bath on way to Southampton. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 3253/ article:3 d |
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| Deaths: Wm Davis, a poor merchant of Holliday Row, Lower Borough Walls died in a violent fit of coughing on Monday. He left his wife & 6 small children without any means of subsistence. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 3254/ article:3 d |
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| Deaths: ## the Mayor (Wm Anderdon) took an inquest into the death of James Clark (a private in the 83rd Regt now quartered in Bath) who died after receiving afew days before 175 lashes out of 800 for desertion. Verdict - death by fever occasioned by the legal punishment Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 3255/ article:3 d |
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| Military: a private in the Irish Regt in the city was flogged for theft and drummed out of the regiment. Soon after a recruiting sergeant of another corps took him by the hand and gave him 10 guineas to enlist. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 3256/ article:3 d |
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| Leisure: Theatre Royal Bath - Thursday, "Columbus" with "The Prize"; Saturday, new comedy, 1st time in Bath "The Rage" with "The Agreeable Surprize" Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 3257/ article:3 d |
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| News: John Sweet, labourer in Mr Rudman's quarry taken to Casualty Hospital, Bath with a broken arm, fractured skull and other injuries. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 3258/ article:3 d |
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| Property: comparison of relative costs ofpurchasing of freehold and leasehold (from Mr Billingsley's Survey). Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 3259/ article:3 d |
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| Music: New Assembly Rooms - 5th Subscription Concert at New Assembly Rooms on 17 Dec. Principal vocal performers Mr Braham & Miss Parke. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 3260/ article:3 e |
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| Goods: Christmas gifts at the Bengal Warehouse, 23 Market Place. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 3261/ article:3 e |
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| Publications: David Evans is selling a large collection of books at his shop on North Parade, Bath. Also selling statonary, perfumery, haberdashery, toy & Tunbridge ware, farren [sic] & fancy cotton, etc Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 3262/ article:3 e |
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| Employment: wanted - by respectable Ladies Boarding School, assistant to teach English language gramatically, embroidery & fashionable works. Enquire Mr Barratt, Bond St, Bath. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 3263/ article:3 e |