Georgian Newspaper Project

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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: imports at Bristol - beef 218 tierces, 30 brls; fustick 13½ tons; ginger 98 bags; hides (ox) 60; horn (cow) 1,700; lemons 150 chests, 27 boxes; logwood 390 sticks; mahogany 20 planks, 39 logs; oil (neatsfoot) 2 hhds;
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2064/ article:4 c
Goods: imports at Bristol cont - pork 50 brls; rum 232 punch, 37 hhds; sugar 492 hhds, 59 tierces, 5 brls; vells 2 brls 15 ½brls; wool (Spanish) 949 bags.
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2065/ article:4 c
Services: R Atwood thanks his friends & public and hopes they will support his successor Daniel Dibbens, plumber & glazier. Accounts to be paid to him in St.James's St.
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2066/ article:1 b
Services: Daniel Dibbens, plumber and glazier has taken the trade of his late master at his commodious workshops in Orchard St, Bath.
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2067/ article:1 b
Goods: ## large & 2 small engines to be played [displayed] before Directors of Old Bath Fire Office in Saw Close on 7 Aug. The smaller engines to be sold, made by George Ford (engine maker to Old Bath Fire Office & maker of engine belonging to Mr Clark, brewer at Walcot), Bridewell Lane.
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2068/ article:1 c
Property: to let or sell - house on the top side of Beacon Hill. Enquire George Ford, Bridewell Lane.
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2069/ article:1 c
Property: private sale - by Mr Evill, 6 freehold dwelling houses let in Weston paying 2½d p.a to Lord of the Manor, clear rent of £51 9s p.a. Good supply of water. Attention maltsters. Enq Mr Ladd, Weston, etc
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2070/ article:1 c
Property: private sale - 4 dwelling houses in Bridewell Lane depending on 3 lives, quit rent 16d payable to Corporation let to tenants at £45 p.a Enq Mr Evill.
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2071/ article:1 c
Employment: journeyman upholsterer - wanted by Mr Evill, experience of the London trade preferred.
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2072/ article:1 c
Property: to let - commodious dwelling in Bradford, lately occupied by Mr Joseph Phelps, clothier decd. With 8 bedchambers, coach-house & stabling for 7 horses, also adj . workshops & horse mill for cloth manufacture. Apply Mr Bell at Bradford.
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2073/ article:1 c
Services: partnership dissolved between John Hensley of Bath, timber merchant & Edmund Prichard of Bristol, timber merchant (1 Aug) .
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2074/ article:1 d
Crime: escaped from justice - Wm Hollick, coachmaker having embezzled money from Fromont & Co, coach-proprietors Bath & Bristol. 2 guin reward for information on application to Coach Co , or to John Arnold, constable, Thatcham.
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2075/ article:1 d
Services: T. Chilton, plumbing & glazing has resigned his business to Messrs Joseph Button & Chilton of 11 Westgate St, Bath. Latter offer WCs, lifting & force pumps etc.
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2076/ article:1 e
Agriculture: grain prices - Devizes 31 July, wheat 38-54s/; barley 29-35s; beans 46-50s; oats 25-29s/qtr; peas 44-50s.
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2077/ article:2 c
Agriculture: grain prices - Warminster 2 Aug, wheat 30s-50s/; barley 23s-34s; oats 22s-24s; beans 40s-44s/quarter.
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2078/ article:2 c
Agriculture: average price of grain throughout England 26 Jul - wheat 52s 3d; barley 31s 6d; rye 36s 1d; oats 22s 4d; beans 42s; peas 42s 8d.
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2079/ article:2 c
Goods: average price of sugar, w-e 30 Jul, 40s 2d/cwt, excluding customs duty.
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2080/ article:2 c
Goods: meat prices - Smithfield 4 Aug, beef 2s 4d-3s 2d; we.mutton 2s 10d-3s 4d; veal 3s-4s; pork 3s 4d-4s; lamb 3s-3s 8d/stone of 8 lbs Sold 1,600 beasts, 13,000 sheep, 3,000 lambs.
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2081/ article:2 c
Goods: meat prices - Newgate/ Leadenhall 4 Aug, by carcase, beef 2s-2s 10d; mutton 2s 8d-3s 2d; veal 2s 8d-3s 8d; pork 3s 4d-4s; lamb 3s-3s 8d.
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2082/ article:2 c
Agriculture: average price commodities - tallow 2s 7d/ stone; hay 76s-90s; straw 30s-34s.
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2083/ article:2 c
Goods: cheese sold at very high prices (good new 45-50s/cwt, old 56-60s) at Magdalen Hill Fair, Winchester
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2084/ article:2 c
Agriculture: monthly report for July - long continuance of fine weather, early harvest, new wheat fine & eagerly sought by millers at market. Peas have failed by 8)% througout country, thin clover crop, poor turnips, grasslands bare & shortage of pasture [severe drought].
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2085/ article:2 c
Goods: auction - household furniture, china & glass of person quitting Bath. At auction rooms, Westgate Street on 8 Aug by T. Thurston.
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2086/ article:2 d
Military: internal defence of the Country - amount raised by subscription in Wiltshire now £12,727 12s; recent donations [listed].
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2087/ article:2 d
Crime: Elijah Taylor, weaver of Melksham eloped from family making them a charge on the parish. 2 guin reward & reasonable expense for apprehending him & bringing him to parish overseer.
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2088/ article:2 e
Military: War Office 5 Aug - a troop of Somrst Gentlemen & Yeomanry, Sir Philip Hales, bart to be Capt, Hon Hugh Somerville to be Lt; Capt Steven's Troop etc, Samuel Burge, gent to be Lt; James Leach, gent to be Cornet.
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2089/ article:3:00 AM
Military: Somerset Regiment Militia - stationed at Dover Castle & inspected there by Duke of Richmond & General Sir William Howe.
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2090/ article:3 b
Finance: Bank Stocks 165¼; 5% 101¼ ½; 4% 84 7/8 a 85; 3% red 68¾; ditto cons. 67¼ ex div; ditto scrip 69¾;
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2091/ article:3 b
Finance: Bank Stocks continued - Bank long ann 20 1/16; India Stock 199; ditto bond 1s pr; Exchange bills 8s; Navy Bills 1 7/8 def; Omnium 5%.
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2092/ article:3 b
Visitors: arrivals in Bath - Earl Erne; Lord King; Lord Westcot; Sir Howe Hicks & lady [NOTP], Admrl & Mrs Mackenzie.
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2093/ article:3 b
News: Bath Improvement Commsnrs - Samuel Howse, esq declined treasurership to the Cmmsnrs, Mr Lawton appointed.
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2094/ article:3 b
Churches: Lord Bishop of Bath & Wells making visitation to Bath on 4 Sept.
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2095/ article:3 b
Marriages: Mr Bateman, architect to Miss Shewring of Westgate St, Bath, on Thursday.
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2096/ article:3 b
Marriages: Mr Adams, druggist of Exeter to Miss Hayward (dtr of the late Mr Robert Hayward of The New Rooms) on Saturday.
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2097/ article:3 b
Deaths: Miss Lowther (dtr of Mr Lowther, builder) after a long illness lately.
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2098/ article:3 b
Deaths: Mrs Martha Lee, widow of the late Mr Lionel Lee, at Box on Sunday.
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2099/ article:3 b
Deaths: Mr William Rose at the Rodney Arms near Westgate Place on Monday.
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2100/ article:3 b
Deaths: Francis Russell, esq at his house in New King St, Bath last night.
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2101/ article:3 b
Deaths: Mrs Vigor of Marlborough Bldgs, Bath (dtr of Rev. Sir James Stonhouse, bart) in her 39th year, this morning [6 Aug].
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2102/ article:3 b
Deaths: a child of about 6 going over the weir at Twerton fell in river & was drowned on Tuesday.
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2103/ article:3 c
Military: 84th Regt of Foot - about 1100 men arrived in the city from Bristol on Thursday, Friday & Saturday staying overnight before proceeding to Basingstoke.
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2104/ article:3 c
Deaths: Ann Fry of Claverton St, Bath cut her throat and died. Coroner's verdict Lunacy.
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2105/ article:3 c
Deaths: a child was killed near Walcot Church by a horse of the Cornish cavalry that bolted on Saturday se'nnight [week].
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2106/ article:3 c
News: verdict of jury on old "Mutton" (Mary Jennings) was she died of decay of age hastened by excessive drinking.
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2107/ article:3 c
News: ## 30lbs of butter deficient in weight was seized in Bath market on Saturday by the Mayor's officers & given to the poor.
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2108/ article:3 c
Goods: ## auction - stock of wool, clothing utensils, dyestuffs etc of late Mr Joseph Phelps, clothier. On the premises at Bradford on 25 & 26 Aug by T. Hart
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2109/ article:3 c
Goods: ## auction, Phelps, contd - stock inc upwards 40 bags prime Spanish wool, several cwt of indigo & dyestuffs, 2 dye furnaces, 2 vats, spinning Jennies & Billies, scribbling & carding engines, etc. Also new chariot, pair black coach-horses, mill horse, cart etc
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2110/ article:3 c
Finance: persons indebted to estate of Mr Thomas Lidiard, mason, decd to pay Mr Robert Lidiard in St James's St. Also creditors to deliver a/c of their demands to same.
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2111/ article:3 d
Goods: auction - modern household furniture, china, linen etc of Mr Royal, on the premises at 16 Vineyards on 11 August by Mr Evill (under execution of Sherriff's warrant).
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2112/ article:3 d
Goods: auction - of household furniture, plate, paintings ("Henderson" by Gainsborough & "Garrick" by Pine), prints & books (Bell's "Shakespeare", "Chambers Encyclopaedia" 100 nos, etc [good details]. On the premises at 7 Barton Buildings on 13 & 14 August by Mr Evill.
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2113/ article:3 d

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