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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Marriages: Mr James Evill, baker of Grove St, Bath to Miss S. Gerlick. [no date]
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Churches: the Lord Bishop of the Diocese held his visitation in the Abbey on Thursday, the sermon was preached by the Rev. Mr Wake.
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Finance: 25 debtors discharged from Ilchester gaol on 22 Aug under terms of late Insolvency Act. One of them had been in prison for 14 yrs for a debt originally under £3 3s.
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2366/ article:3 c
Crime: James Stanley convicted at last Assizes of stealing a mare was to be executed to-day [10 Sept].
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2367/ article:3 c
Charity: Bath Infirmary received £20 through Mr Waters, part of money recovered from the coach-proprietors following injuries to Mr & Mrs Jewer at Reading.
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2368/ article:3 d
Goods: auction - furniture, paintings & modern postchaise, at 4 Burlington Street on 19 Sept by Mr Plura.
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2369/ article:3 d
Property: to let - house in Paragon Buildings, last occupied by Mr Lisle, now newly repaired, apply Mr Salmon, attorney, Bath.
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2370/ article:3 d
Property: to let - large lodging & boarding house in Abbey St, Bath, furnished or unfurnished, occupied by Miss Poulter. If furniture taken at valuation £300 then entitled to reduced rent for a short term. Enq to Mr Salmon, attorney, Bath.
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2371/ article:3 d
Finance: partnership between George Percival & Thomas Cunditt was dissolved on 8 Sept. A/Cs to be settled by Thomas Cunditt.
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2372/ article:3 e
Services: invitation to contract for lighting lamps on the New Bridge, Argyle Bldgs, Great Pulteney St, & other streets in New Town, Bathwick. Proposals to Mr Chantry, 4 Henrietta St by 25 Sep
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Property: to let - at reasonable rent by year or remainder of current lease (3 years) 9 Burlington St, well supplied with water. Mr Bally, 7 York Bldgs, Bath.
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Property: auction, John Viel & Matthew Viel, bankrupts - dwelling house & workshop in Cheapside, Bathwick close to new bridge, 99 year lease with ground rent £12 16s, at Greyhound Inn on 20 Sept by Mr Evill.
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Goods: imports at Bristol - beef 34 tierces 5 brls; butter 380 casks; flax 387 bobbins; hemp 110 bales; iron (Russia) 7350 bars; lard 3 hhd; linseed 300 bags;
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Goods: imports at Bristol, cont - linen (Irish) 107 packets 29 boxes; pork 103 brls; skins (calf) 59 bundles; tallow (Russia) 198 casks; vells 5 brls 1 punch; wine (French) 1 hhd, (Portugal) 1 hhd
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Sport: Game Certificates - Bath residents, George Arnold, innkeeper; Wm. Brereton, esq; Charles Cobbe, esq (Walcot); William Cox, yeoman (Weston); Pierce Dalton, esq; Thomas Fothergill, DD; John Godfrey, esq; Race Godfrey, DD; Chas. Harford, gent (Walcot); James Heaven, gent;
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2378/ article:4 b
Sport: Game Certificates - Bath residents, James Hooper, esq (Walcot); John Hooper, esq (Walcot); John Higgins, yeoman; Thomas Jelly, gent; Thomas Kelston, gent (Lyncombe & Widcombe); Thomas King, jnr, gent (Walcot); R. C Knowles, coachmaker (Walcot); John Morley, gent; Matthias Miller, gent (Walcot);
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2379/ article:4 b
Sport: Game Certificates - Bath residents, Peckston Peterson, gent; Benjamin Pugh, MD (Midford); Harry Purlewent, clerk; William Smith, esq; William Smith, gent; John Smith, gent (Lyncombe & Widcombe);
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2380/ article:4 c
Sport: Game Certificates - Bath residents, Martin Stafford Smith, clerk (Prior Park); John Sone, gent; Joseph Sainsbury, gent (Walcot); Isaac Single, gent; Henry Smith, MD; George Hayward Tugwell, esq; Charles Viner, gent; John Whittington, gent.
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Sport: Game Certificates (local) - Richard Ayres, gent (Frome); John Hawksey Ackerley, esq (Midsomer Norton); Thomas Browning, esq (Saltford); John Church, esq (Frome); William Cowdrey, gent (Batheaston); Thomas Cowdrey, gent (Batheaston);
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Sport: Game Certificates (local) - John Croome Charmbury, gent (Bathampton); William Chislett, gent (Beckington); William Young Coker, esq (Wraxall); Francis D'Arcy, esq (Newton St. Loe); George Flower, gent (Saltford);
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2383/ article:4 c
Sport: Game Certs (local) - George George, gent (Frome); William Gore Langton, esq (Newton Park); George Lewis, gent (St. Catherine); John Lewis, gent (St. Catherine); John Lilly, gent (Ashcott);
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2384/ article:4 c
Sport: Game Certs (local) - Edward Lyne, esq (Saltford); Benjamin Milward, gent (Keynsham); Joseph Milton, gent (Beckington); Robert Mears, gent (Frome); Edward Newport, gent (Frome); George Palmer, gent (Keynsham);
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2385/ article:4 d
Sport: Game Certs (local) - Miles Smallcomb, gent (Kelston); John Snook, gent (Kelston); John Thomas, gent (Keynsham); Alex. William Webber, esq (Batheaston).
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2386/ article:4 d
Politics: treason - Robert Watt & David Downie sentenced to be hanged but not until death, disembowelled, decapitated & quartered (Edinburgh 6 Sept).
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2387/ article:1:00 AM
Education: Mr Steven's Academy - 7 Barton Bldgs has vacancies for 2 boarders for instruction in reading, speaking, arithmetic, geometry, algebra, French & dancing.
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2388/ article:1 b
Agriculture: Bath & West of England Soc - G.M at Hetling House on 9 Sept with Rev. Thomas Broughton V.P in the chair. Mating fine wooled ewes in Hereford with the Spanish ram; samples of cider apples etc requested; Mr Lansdown's invention for removing foul air from coalpits; etc. Next cmmttee meeting 30 Sept.
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2389/ article:1 b
Health: ## pregnant ladies requiring temporary retirement accommodated with honour, attention & secrecy, their infants put out to nurse and humanely taken care of. Mr White, surgeon & male midwife & Mrs White, midwife, London House yard, N-side of St. Paul's Churchyard
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2390/ article:1 b
Property: auction - lot 1/2, newly-built dwelling, Davord [sic - Dafford] House, Dafford's Bldgs, Larkhall, 32'in front, 2 rooms on dining room floor with 3 servants rooms, large garden with fruit trees in front, large yard behind with stables for 3 horsrs, c. ½ acre, fee farm rent £3 3s p.a. At Castle Inn, Northgate Street on 29 Sep by C. Trimnell
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Property: auction - lot 2/2, fee farm rents on Dafford House & 12 tenements in Davord's [sic - Dafford's] Buildings, clear rent £26 15s p.a. At Castle Inn, Northgate Street on 29 Sep by C. Trimnell
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2392/ article:1 c
Military: Internal defence of the Country, voluntary subscriptions raised in Wiltshire - already published £12,898, with recent [itemised] total now £12,910 7s 3d. W. Hughes, secretary
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2393/ article:1 c
Employment: wanted - brewer to superintend a brewery, apply the printer.
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2394/ article:1 d
Notices: person/s willing to contract for lighting, cleaning & maintaining lamps in out parts of Walcot parish to attend Cmssnrs at St James's Hotel, St James's St on 18 Sept. From J Randolph, clerk to Cmssnrs
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2395/ article:1 d
Property: auction, estate of George Mullins, bankrupt - lot 1/5, dwelling in Gay's Place, let to George Bridges, tenant at will, GR £2 2s; lot 2/5, l/hold dwelling with shop, cnr of Walcot Buildings let at £30 p.a., GR £4 14s. At White Hart Inn, Market Place on 27 Sep by J. Stafford
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Property: auction, Mullins's estate - lot 3/5, 2 x l/hold dwellings in Bedford St, both void, has been let at £18 18s, tenants paying the rates. At White Hart Inn, Market Place on 27 Sep by J. Stafford
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Property: auction, Mullins's estate - lot 4/5, 2 unfinished l/hold dwellings with shop adjoining in Edward St adj Gt Pulteney St, Bath; lot 5/5, small tnmnt (built on sufferance) "Moorfields" nr Gay's Place. At White Hart Inn, Market Place on 27 Sep by J. Stafford
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2398/ article:1 d
Industry: woollen manufactory - 24,000 packs of wool sent from Hull up Rivers Aire & Calder only during one year.
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2399/ article:2:00 AM
Science: the new French Telegraphe is said to rely on beacons 12-15 miles apart. French not the first; Count Possini in Rome invented a model for getting intelligence from Naples to Rome about 10 years ago.
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2400/ article:2 b
Inns: ## it is generally understood that about 60 families are needed to support a creditable and newly-established alehouse.
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2401/ article:2 b
Goods: imports at Bristol - bristles 1 hghd; butter 270 firkins, 40 casks; deal 37c 1qr; flax 939 bobbins; hemp 55 bales; hides (ox & cow) 204; iron (Russia) 28,543 bars;
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Goods: imports at Bristol (contd) - kelp 83 tons; lathwood 1,500 pieces; mats 4,400; masts 4; oakum 3 c; skins (calf) 50 bundles; spars 2; tar 28- brls; tallow (Russia) 605 casks; tongues 3 parcels; vells 3 brls.
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2403/ article:2 c
Agriculture: grain prices - Devizes 11 Sept, wheat 42-58s; beans 44-48s; rye 40-48s; hog peas 50-60s; barley 32-39s; oats 25-29s per qr.
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Agriculture: grain prices - Warminster 13 Sept, wheat 42s-56s; barley 27s-36s; rye 26s; oats 24s-28s; beans 42s-48s per quarter.
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2405/ article:2 d
Agriculture: Mark Lane 15 Sept - total 3638 qtrs wheat sold at av price 51s 1¼, 3s 4½d lower than last week.
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Agriculture: average price of grain throughout England 6 Sept - wheat 51s 11d; barley 31s 7d; rye 39s 2d; oats 22s 2d; beans 43s 9d; peas 49s 8d.
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Goods: average price of sugar, w-e 10 Sept, 38s 8¼d/cwt excluding customs duty.
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Goods: meat prices - Smithfield 15 Sept, to sink the offal, ox beef 2s 4d -3s 2d; mutton 3s -3s 6d; veal 3s -4s 4d; pork 3s 4d -4s 4d; lamb 3s 4d -4s per stone of 8 lbs. Sold 1,800 beasts, 8,000 sheep, 1,000 lambs.
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Goods: meat prices - Newgate/ Leadenhall 15 Sept, by carcase, ox beef 2s-2s8d; mutton 2s8d-3s2d; veal 2s6d-4s; pork 3s4d-4s4d; lamb 2s8d-4s.
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Crime: burglary with force - at dwelling house of Mr Richard Little, the Sign of the Plough, Westrop, Corsham, servant maid assaulted & theft, RL abused. Reward of 10 guin over & above that granted by Act of Parliament.
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Goods: auction - household furniture, 500 ozs modern plate, 500 books, etc, late property of Mrs Frederick, decd. On the premises at 2 Spencer's Belle Vue on 19 & 20 Sept by Denew & Dawson (of Charles St, Berkeley, London).
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Goods: auction - household furniture of Rev. Richard John Hay, lately belonging to Mr John Cross. On the premises at Turleigh on 24 & 25 Sep by T. Hart. [no more address]
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