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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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| Publications: "The Bath Chronicle", Thu 2 Jan, vol 33, no 1,683. Printed by R. Cruttwell in St James's St. 4 pages, each 5 col. Price 4d Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1/ article:1 |
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| Art: exhibition & private sale - paintings from France inc. Raphael's "Christ bearing his Cross" (sold to Rev Mr Watkins). At Exhibition Room, 18 Northgate St, Bath, 11am to 3pm daily exc Sunday. Admission 1s. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 2/ article:1,b |
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| Services: Chabas, jnr. teaches fencing. Leave messages at Greyhound Inn, Market Place, Bath. Schools attended Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 3/ article:1,b |
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| Property: to let by the year - house in Camden Place & cottage. Details at York House Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 4/ article:1,b |
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| Finance: Henry Cross, has resigned his business in favour of Wm. Evill . Debtors & creditors to deal with H. Cross,18 Milsom St, Bath. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 5/ article:1,b |
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| Goods: Wm Evill has acquired business of H Cross, upholsterery, appraising, undertakering & auctioneer (& cabinet lines) in 18 Milsom St, Bath Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 6/ article:1,b |
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| Goods: auction - furniture etc of Mrs Green, also prints by Bartolozzi & Woollet. On the premises at her late residence at Bathford on 2 Jan byWm Evill (of 18 Milsom St). Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 7/ article:1,b |
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| Travel: postcoach - from White Lion, Bath at 6am, Mon Wed & Sat to Cross Inn, Oxford & return. Thru' Chippenham, Malmesbury etc. Fare inside £1 1s, outside 12s. (Note improved road through Malmesbury & Cricklade to Oxford). By Geo. Arnold, Bath, & Wentworth, Oxford Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 8/ article:1,b |
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| Leisure: horse riding lessons from J. Dash - 16 lessons 3 guin. or 5s/lesson. Provision of horse 3s extra. Saddle & coach-horses taken at livery by day, wk, month or yr. Servants may exercise their horses before 10am & after 3pm. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 9/ article:1,b |
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| Health: "Godbold's Vegetable Balsam" for lung conditions, sold by Mr Cruttwell, his agents & newscarriers. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 10/ article:1,b |
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| Finance: creditors of John Osborne of Biddestone, baker & maltster - Trustees to meet at Bear Inn, Chippenham on 13 Jan. To receive a dividend Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 11/ article:1,c |
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| Health: dentist - Chevalier Ruspini's products ("Dentifrice", "Tincture", "Elixir" for toothache & "Balsamic styptic" for external & internal haemorrrhage). Now in possession of his son George Ruspini, opp. Pump Room Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 12/ article:1,c |
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| Education: boarding school for young ladies. Mrs Snelgrove, Crockerton nr Warminster. Needlework, reading, writing, English grammar, geography, arithmetic etc, fees 13 guin p.a. inc washing, entrance 2 guin p.a. French. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 13/ article:1,c |
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| Agriculture: for sale - oak, elm & ash trees growing in Marshfield, Gloucs & at Wingfield, nr Bradford. Partcrs at Ashwick House, Marshfield. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 14/ article:1,c |
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| Finance: English State Lottery 1793, prizes from £30,000 to £500. Tickets 6d, divided into halves, quarters, eighths or sixteenths. From Hornsby & Co, Stockbrokers, 26 Cornhill, London Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 15/ article:1 c |
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| Charity: Sunday collections for Bath Gen Hospital on 22 Dec - 16 named churches & chapels with additions totalled £307 10s 7d, & further benefactions total £105 3s 6d [with details] Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 16/ article:1,c |
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| Goods: Thomas Breach & John Breach (from London), Bath Street, hatters & furriers - fashionable muffs & tippets from ½ to 20 guin. each Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 17/ article:1,d |
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| Education: school - Mr Steven's Academy, 7 Barton Bldgs, Bath. Recommences Mon 13 Jan Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 18/ article:1,d |
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| Finance: bankruptcy - debtors of George Lee, coachmaker, surviving partner of Robert Watkins - to pay the assignees (Mr Watkins, carrier, or Mr Arthur Jones, woollen draper). Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 19/ article:1,d |
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| Finance: bankruptcy - Edward Bushell, carpenter & builder, bankrupt of Bath. Debtors pay to assignees (Mr Thomas Keen, innholder, Banbury; Mr John Croome, limeburner, Bath; or Mr Wm Harrold, wheelwright, Monkton Combe). Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 20/ article:1,d |
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| Finance: bankrupt Isaac Bennett [sic], carpenter & builder of Walcot - debtors to pay the Assignees (Mr Samuel Hallet, ironmonger, John Cheney, coal merchant or John Benton, grocer (all of Bath)). Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 21/ article:1,d |
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| Charity: ## Sunday Schools & Schools of Industry - A/Cs for 1793. Income £767 2s inc contributions £466 9s 6 (less than preceding years). From Geo Ramsay & Granado Pigott [sic]. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 22/ article:1,d |
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| Charity: ## Sunday Schools & Schools of Industry - A/Cs 1793, contd. Expenses inc cash to matron, masters etc £209 7s 10½d; clerk, sexton & beadle £26 7s 1½d; Rev lecturer £30; raw materials for children's clothes & goods for sale £287 11s 6½d; rent £30 15s 4½d, contingency £70 17s; goodsin hand £50 15s 5d; £500 South Sea Annuities £365 7s 6d. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 23/ article:1,d |
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| Charity: ## Sunday Schools & Schools of Industry, contd - report for 1793. Received all poor children offered from Bath, Walcot, Widcombe & Bathwick parishes - near 700; 150 children in Schools for Industry (taken by rotation) from Sunday Schools instructed. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 24/ article:1,d |
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| Charity: ## Sunday Schools & Schools of Industry - report nr 700 poor children in Bath, Walcot, Widcombe & Bathwick parishes. 150 taken by rotation from Sunday schools to learn & be employed in reading, sewing, spinning, knitting & net-making etc. 3 girls & 7 boys to apprenticeships Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 25/ article:1,d |
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| Charity: Schools of Industry, admission policy - managers of Blue school, St Margaret's, Queen Sq & Octagon Chapel schools will now only admit children with 6 months regular attendance at Sunday Schools Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 26/ article:1,d |
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| Finance: Old Bath Fire Office, St. John's Place, Sawclose - attendance to receive payment of premiums for coming year. M Davis, sec. Agents Mr Croom (Melksham); Mr Kemm (Chippenham). Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 27/ article:1,e |
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| Livestock: sale - pair of bay geldings, worked occasionally in a chariot, good saddle horses; also a pair of grey curricle geldings, with curricle and harness if required. Apply Head Ostler, White Lion, Market Pl, Bath Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 28/ article:1 e |
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| Health: Mrs Plunkett Edgcumbe has moved to 10 St. James's Sq, Bath, cures cancer without incision. Cured Mrs Shepherd, Lansdown Rd, of cancer of the tongue Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 29/ article:1,e |
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| Agriculture: grain prices - Devizes 26 Dec, wheat 36-52s/qtr. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 30/ article:2,a |
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| Agriculture: grain & flour prices - Mark Lane, London, wheat (starch) 36s-42s. Total 4430 qtrs sold at av price 47s 0¾d, 3¾d less than last week. Fine flour 38s, 2nd flour 35s/ Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 31/ article:2,a |
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| Goods: average price of sugar w-e 25 Dec 1793, 50s 6½d, excl customs duty Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 32/ article:2,a |
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| Agriculture: average price of grain in England, 21 Dec - wheat 49s 2d, barley 33s 4d, oats 21s 11d/qtr. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 33/ article:2,a |
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| Deaths: Mrs Morgan, widow of Charles Morgan, the original maker of Oliver biscuits [NFD]. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 34/ article:2,b |
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| Deaths: Mr James Pollard, many years a merchant of Bristol, of the gout of his head & stomach, at Brislington [NFD] Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 35/ article:2,b |
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| Crime: linen theft from Dr Lyson's house in Paragon Bldgs. Inc 4 large damask tablecloths, 14 breakfast cloths, 9 kitchen tablecloths, 10 kitchen breakfast cloths, 14 pillow cases, 11 round towels, sheets (3pr fine, 5pr common, 6 pr servants), 11 large damask napkins, etc. Rewards offered on conviction, Bath Guardian Soc 5 guin, Dr Lysons 7 guin. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 36/ article:2,b |
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| Charity: Rachel Channel has King's Evil [scrophula] and is being treated in Bath. For her care, £1 12s 6d left with Mr Campbell, bookseller in Burton St, Bath. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 37/ article:2,b |
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| Charity: Spitalfields weavers - subscribers have distributed 26,690 quartern loaves to 1459 families & 5632 individuals. Resolve to distribute coals as well as bread. local collections for them in Bath to Messrs Whitehead & Co; Clement & Tugwell; Libraries; and to Whitehall Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 38/ article:2,b |
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| Fashion: Mrs B. Cottell, widow of late Mr William Cottell, tailor & habit-maker. She is continuing husband's business (with same employees) at Mr Collin's, druggist, 52 Horse St, Bath. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 39/ article:2,c |
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| Goods: for sale - Old Crondall or Farnham hops @ 2s 3d/lb at Stallard & Co, cutlers, 18 Borough Walls, Bath. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 40/ article:2,c |
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| Charity: Spitalfield Weavers, collection - Mr Campbell, bookseller etc in Burton St, appointed receiver has collected £17 17 s 7d. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 41/ article:2,c |
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| Goods: ## sale - Thomas Baldwin's (architect) bankruptcy - some household furniture, books etc. Inc. 17 large engraved copper-plates of buildings etc in Bath; books inc. Adams Architecture, Palladio 2 vols etc. At his house 6 Great Pulteney St, on 7 Jan by C Trimnell. By order of assignee Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 42/ article:2,c |
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| Property: auction, Thomas Baldwin, bankrupt - in 13 lots, 7 f/hold houses in Queen St, Bath, Weston Lane & 6 Gt Pulteney St, Bath; & 6 l/hold interests. At Argyle Coffee House, Argyle Bldgs, Bath 16 Jan by C Trimnell. By order of assignees (Mr Richard Atwood, Mr Margerum & Mr Walter, Bath). [details follow] Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 43/ article:2,c |
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| Property: auction, Baldwin's bankruptcy - lot 1/13, W side, 12 Queen St, Bath, 1,000 year lease, 876½ unexpired. Let to Mr James Durham t.a.w at £18 18s p.a clear. At Argyle Coffee House, Argyle Bldgs, Bath 16 Jan by C Trimnell Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 44/ article:2,c |
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| Property: auction, Baldwin's bankruptcy - lot 2/13, 11 Queen St. Bath, adj to & same tenure as lot 1, now let to William Matthews as tenant at will for £23 p.a. At Argyle Coffee House, Argyle Bldgs, Bath 16 Jan by C Trimnell Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 45/ article:2,c |
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| Property: auction, Baldwin's bankruptcy - lot 3/13, house & 1¼ acr, N. side Weston Lane, lease May 1789 by St John's Hospital to Mr Henry Attwood for 99 yrs, let in 1782 to Isaac Fennell, John Brimble & John Hacker; increasing rent £110 p.a after June 1793. At Argyle Coffee House, Argyle Bldgs, Bath 16 Jan by C Trimnell Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 46/ article:2,c |
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| Property: auction, Baldwin's bankruptcy - lot 4/13, W side, 1 Queen St, Bath, let to Miss Ann & Fanny West at net rent £73 p.a. With 8 Queen St, held under lease from Edward Harington for remainder of 51½ years, 36 unexpired, with ground rent £24 p.a. At Argyle Coffee House, Argyle Bldgs, Bath 16 Jan by C Trimnell Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 47/ article:2,c |
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| Property: auction, Baldwin's bankruptcy - lot 5/13, N side, 8 Queen St. Bath, also let to Miss Ann & Fanny West at a net rent of £26 5s p.a. With 1 Queen St, held under lease from Edward Harington for remainder of 51½ years, 36 unexpired, ground rent £24 p.a. At Argyle Coffee House, Argyle Bldgs, Bath 16 Jan by C Trimnell Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 48/ article:2,c |
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| Property: auction, Baldwin's bankruptcy - lot 6/13, N side, 6 Great Pulteney St, Bath (in bankrupt's occupation), held by lease under Lady Bath for 99 years, 93½ unexpired with ground rent £5 15s 6d p.a. At Argyle Coffee House, Argyle Bldgs, Bath 16 Jan by C Trimnell Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 49/ article:2,c |
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| Property: auction, Baldwin's bankruptcy - lot 7/13, bankrupt's interests in S side, 3 Harington Pl. Bath (his wife Elizabeth entitled to rents etc for her life). 1,000 year lease from Edward Harington, 876½ unexpired, ground rent £23 p.a. Occupd Mr King for 14 years from 1792 with net rent £55 p.a Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 50/ article:2,c |