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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: for sale - a quantity of rum & brandy casks. 10s 6d each. Apply John Perry, wine & brandy merchant, 6 Northgate Street. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1446/ article:3 c |
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| Agriculture: shortage of labourers for harvest as men are going to find work in Cornwall mines due to high price of tin & copper. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1446/ article:3,d |
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| Services: the only Venetian blind maker in Bath - Hitchings from London at 11 Queen St makes blinds in elegant fashion. Old blinds repaired, painted Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1446/ article:3,e |
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| Finance: bankruptcy - of John Adams, glassmaker, dealer & chapman, late of Chelwood. Commissioners to meet at house of Mr John Weeks called Bush Tavern, Bristol 4 Jul to make final dividend. Rd Bowsher, solicitor Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1446/ article:1,e |
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| Marriages: John Deane, esq, Trowbridge to Miss Sarah Stratten, dtr of Thomas Stratten, esq of Hackney, on Wed. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1447/ article:3,d |
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| Finance: bankruptcy - all indebted to estate Joseph Dibbens, grocer, bankrupt, late city of Bath to pay debts to assignees (Mr John Coles or Mr John Pinker, Bath) before 1 Oct. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1447/ article:3 d |
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| Travel: From turnpike roads - auction of tolls arising at Coal Lane gate (produced £195 last year) & Soho gate (£94 last year) at house of Thomas Handy, George Inn, Frome on 6 Nov. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1447/ article:2,c |
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| Goods: for sale - a newly acquired consignment of Souchong tea from the East India Co at Paul's tea warehouse, cnr Green St, near St Michael's Church. [no prices] Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1447/ article:3 c |
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| Law: Somrst Assizes at Wells - on Monday, Mr Justice Bullen & special jury awarded £50 & costs to Mr Robert Moody, coachmaster & cornfactor of Bath (plaintiff) who had been maliciously arrested for £750 debt by May Cook. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1447/ article:3,d |
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| Finance: E Hallet, Abbey Church Yard & Cheap St is quitting house & business. Remaining stock of hats, gloves, hose to be sold. Creditors send a/c, & debtors to settle Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1447/ article:3,e |
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| Marriages: Mr Thomas Ellis of Lower Hurst Farm, Wilts to Miss Gaisford of Beckington [NFD] Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1447/ article:2,a |
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| Marriages: Winthrop Baldwin, esq to Miss Coxe, only dtr of Charles Coxe, esq at Walcot Church on Monday . Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1448/ article:3,d |
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| Agriculture: Bath Agriculture etc Society - report of general meeting 12 Sep, Dr Fothergill, a vice president in chair. Model of a coomb pot for using pit coal instead of charcoal presented by Mr Morice [sic] Birkbeck, snr of Handy Farm nr Blandford, Dorset. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1448/ article:3 d |
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| Crime: Bath Soc. of Guardians - subscription renewal 5s due at Michaelmas. Apply to William Meyler, esq, secretary, Orange Grove, Bath. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1448/ article:2 d |
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| Education: Mrs Vereyt announces her French & Italian academy at Batheaston can accommodate 20 young ladies in the house & spacious garden. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1448/ article:3 c |
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| Law: Somrst Assizes at Wells - verdict of £15 to a poor collier watering his horses. He injured & horse drowned by overturning of a wagon loaded with bark overturning at Keynsham Bridge & falling into water. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1448/ article:3,d |
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| Military: for sale - 2 light cavalry horses - enq Bally's circulating library, middle Milsom St Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1448/ article:3,e |
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| Agriculture: wheat prices - /qtr, Devizes 54-66s, Newbury 49-65s, Warminster 51-66s, Reading 50-67s Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1448/ article:2,c |
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| Marriages: Mr Jadouil [sic - Jadoul] stay & mantua maker to Miss Brannan of Bath on Tuesday. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1449/ article:3,d |
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| Agriculture: Bath Agric Soc, GM contd - letter by Mr Pollet, comparing expense & produce of 20 ac land worth £20/acre cropped every [other] yr, & cropped each yr; letter on Bishop Killalue's method of cultivating potatoes Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1449/ article:3 d |
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| Health: remedies - "Dr Willison's Royal Gout Drops" for gout, rheumatism, bilious complaints etc prepared only by Thomas Howe, chemist, 33 Milsom St, Bath, at printer 2s 9d/bottle. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1449/ article:2 d |
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| Leisure: the first Cotillon Ball to be held on 15 Oct at the New Assembly Rooms. R Tyson M C. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1449/ article:3 c |
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| Property: to let by the year - part of a large house, furnished, with a good garden within ¼ mile of Queen Square. Apply Messrs Campbell & Gainsborough, Burton Street. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1449/ article:3,e |
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| Travel: Bath & Weymouth coach to commence for season on 16 Jul; Mon, Wed, Fri 7am from White Hart, Bath to Crown Inn, Weymouth. £1 5s inside, 15s outside Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1449/ article:3,e |
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| Goods: bread prices in Bath - 6d wheaten loaf to weigh 2lb 10oz 14 dr; standard loaf to weigh 3lb 1oz 1dr. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1449/ article:2,c |
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| Marriages: Mr Edward Collier, tallow chandler & soap boiler, age c. 50, to Mrs Jones, age 84 (with a considerable fortune), at Norton St Phillip on Saturday. Bride on crutches supported by two helpers to altar. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1450/ article:3,d |
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| Agriculture: Bath Agric Soc, GM contd - list of husbandry implements now made of cast-iron by Ransome & Co at their new iron foundry in Norwich; etc Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1450/ article:3 d |
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| Visitors: there is some talk of the Prince of Wales & the Duke of York going to Bath for the ensuing season. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1450/ article:3:00 AM |
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| Visitors: arrivals in Bath - Countess Dowager of Radnor, Lord Bishop of Bath & Wells, Lord Bishop of Oxford, Lord & Lady Audley, Lord Milton, Lord Rivers, Hon Mr & Lady Mary Bowlby, Hon Mr & Mrs Browne, Hon Mrs Hyde, Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1450/ article:3 c |
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| Property: to be sold or let at Michaelmas next - 1 Walcot Terrace, well furnished walled garden, & gentle declivity to River Avon for fishing. Water supplied within & without. Enq at house for further particulars. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1450/ article:3,e |
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| Goods: auction - household furniture, 8 day clock by Field & a gouty chair. At 36 E side Milsom St 16 Jul by Mr Plura Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1450/ article:3,e |
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| Travel: auction Bradford turnpike - tolls which were to be let 8 Jul, auction postponed to 15 Jul at Turnpike House, Woolley St. Wm Bush, clerk to trustees Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1450/ article:2,c |
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| Deaths: Mrs Phynn, wife Mr Phynn, late perfumer & haberdasher on North Parade on Thursday. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1451/ article:3,d |
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| Health: remedies - "Dalby's Carminative" for colic & fluxes so common at this time of year. Bottles 1s 6d plus 3d duty at R Cruttwell. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1451/ article:4 d |
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| Visitors: arrivals in Bath - Earl of Donnegal, Lord Down, Hon Mr Browne, Sir William Wheler & Lady, Lady Middleton, Mr & Lady Jane Muirhead [NOTP], Admiral Matthews. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1451/ article:3 b |
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| Visitors: arrivals contd - Hon Mrs Byron, Hon Miss Colville, Lady Bateman, Lady Hannay, Sir Wm. Wheler & Lady, Sir Thomas Shirley, Lady Moore, Hon Capt. Windsor, Comte de Bijneau, Comte de Vitzhum [NOTP]. Gen & Mrs Macleane, Gen & Miss Reed, Gen & Mr Townshend. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1451/ article:3 c |
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| Crime: vandalism - 2 men broke windows of 8 Viner's Court nr Lansdown Road (home of Mr John Hulbert, tailor) c. 12 o'clock last Fri. 1 guin reward offered by John Hulbert & further reward from Bath Society of Guardians. If either man will impeach the other, he will receive same reward & a free pardon. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1451/ article:3,e |
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| Property: auction sale - 20 yr lease of house, 23 Milsom St, Bath & milliner's stock in trade. At the house 17 July by Mr English (of 6 Broad St, Bath). Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1451/ article:3,e |
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| Finance: John Reynolds, baker & maltster, late of Corsham, has assigned his estate & effects to John Beak of Twerton & James Little of Calne, millers in trust, for benefit of creditors who are asked to send a/cs to Stephen Vezey, attorney, Melksham. Debtors to pay same. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1451/ article:2,c |
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| Deaths: Anthony Stainsby, esq age 80 in Bath on Friday. Possessed of large property in Antigua & Jamaica. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1452/ article:3,d |
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| Health: remedies - "Moore's Old established worm powder", 5s 5d, 2s 9d, 1s 2d, duty included. Sold R Cruttwell. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1452/ article:4 d |
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| Goods: Thomas Batchelor, 1 Bradley's Bldgs, & 2 Johnstone St, Bath selling best coal at full pit measure & most reasonable terms, (late with George Chapman, drapers) Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1452/ article:3 b |
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| Marriages: Mr H E Howse, linen draper in High Street to Miss Greenway (dtr of Mr Greenway in Claverton St.) at St James Church yesterday [6 Oct]. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1452/ article:3 c |
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| Employment: brewer wanted, experienced & sober. Apply to printer. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1452/ article:3,e |
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| Goods: auction - household furniture at cnr house, Hetling Court. By Mr Bally 19 Jul Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1452/ article:3,e |
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| Travel: Somerset Coal canal - general meeting at York Hotel, Bath 5 Jun ordered call of £10/share on subscribers to be paid to bankers, Messrs Hobhouse, Clutterbuck, Phillott & Lowder by 7 Aug or Messrs Whitehead & Howard, London, Messrs Harfords Davis & Co, Bristol Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1452/ article:2,d |
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| Deaths: Mrs Hillier, wife of Mr Hillier, clothier of Bradford & dtr of Samuel Cam, esq, died of a decline on Friday. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1453/ article:3,d |
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| Property: auction - lot 1/2, a mssge, garden, barn, stables & outhouses in tithing of Pickwick & 93 acres mixed, property of Mr Richard Fry, bankrupt. At Packhorse Inn, Corsham on 27 Sep by Thomas Brown. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1453/ article:1 b |
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| Marriages: Mr Richard Knight of Kingston Bldgs, Bath to Miss Alford of Bath at St Michael's Church, last week. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1453/ article:3 b |
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| Deaths: Mrs Taylor of the Packhorse near St Michael's Church on Sunday. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1453/ article:3 d |