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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Marriages: Rev Mr Cerach, to Miss Brathwayte, at Bristol [NFD]
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Travel: for sale - a modern town-built gig with elegant plated harness, to be seen at Mr Philip's coach-maker in St John's Court, Bath. Price 25 guin.
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Agriculture: the King's Meads in city of Bath open 1 May with grass for reception of cows & horses. Any gentleman accommodated with a run for up to 8 horses, apply John Hucklebridge at the New Inn, Kingsmead Sq, Bath (where may also be had ca. 2 tons Lancaster white potatoes for planting.
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Goods: sale - London, Sheffield & Birmingham Repository in the Walks, nr North Parade, Bath. silver & plated goods, jewellery & hardware, [extensive list, not priced], cutlery (12 silver handled knives & 12 forks 24s, 12 good table knives & 12 forks, 7s 6d, pen-knives 2s 6d/doz, etc), looking glasses, japanned goods. Musical instruments - harpsichords, pianofortes & hand-organs bought or taken in exchange.
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Law: ## Bath Society of Guardians for protection -- from felons, forgers, cheats, etc - meeting at Bear Inn on 31 Mar. Cmmtee for ensuing year, Chas. Owen, esq., Edw. Rudge, esq., Mr West, Mr Geo. Chapman, Mr Beach, Mr Brett, Mr Wm. Cross, Mr Chas. Davis, Mr Spackman, Mr Tho. Guest, Mr M. Atkinson & Mr R. Cruttwell. Treasurer, Mr Chas. Phillot, subs to be deposited at Bath Bank. W. Meyler, sec
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News: this night's London Gazette (12 Apr) contains an Address on the peace to His Majesty, from the Mayor, Aldermen & citizens of Bath. Presented to the King by Hon. Mr Pratt (one of Bath's MPs)
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Agriculture: grain prices/qtr - Bear Key, wheat 40s-54s/, barley 21s-35s, oats 18s-26s, beans 30s-36s; Devizes, wheat 52s-72s, barley 26s-36s, oats 24s-28s, beans 48s-56s; Warminster, wheat 51s-66s, barley 32s-44s, oats 29s-30s, beans 52s-56s.
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Property: auction - f/hold dwelling house in New King St, Bath, with 2 parlours, drawing room, bedchambers, 2 rooms on attic storey, garrets, kitchen, servant's hall. At White Hart Inn, Stall St on 12 Apr by Wm. Birchall; Partcs from Mr Jacob Smith, attorney in Union Psge; or Wm. Birchall, upholder, Queen Sq.
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Goods: auction - h/hold furniture, table & tea china, glass, books, etc of Mrs Chilcott & Miss Harwood (leaving Bath) at their Boarding School in St John's Court, Bath. Inc harpsichord, a chamber organ with 5 barrels, etc. On the premises on 22 Apr et seq. (not on 16 Apr as advertised earlier) by Wm. Birchall.
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Travel: post-coach from White Hart Inn & Tavern, Stall St, Bath, daily exc. Sun at 4am to London; Mon, Wed & Fri at 8am in 2 days to London [no perfomer named]
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Travel: post-coach from White Hart Inn & Tavern, Stall St, Bath, daily exc. Sun at 5am to London Inn, Exeter (& Plymouth); post-coach Wed & Sat at 6am to Oxford; coach Mon, Wed & Fri at 10pm to Gosport & Portsmouth (thro Salisbury & Southampton); coach Wed & Sat at 8am to Salisbury; [no perfomer named]
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Travel: post-coach from White Hart Inn & Tavern, Stall St, Bath, daily exc. Sun at 10am to Bristol & daily exc Sun at 4pm to Bristol & Hotwells, [no perfomer named]
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Goods: auction - all h/hold furniture, plate, linen, fine prints, books, etc [detailed] of Mr Wm. Dinham, on the premises at [? Mansion House], Hengrove in parish of Brislington on 28 Apr et seq (not on 21 Apr as advertised before) by J. Stephens.
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Property: auction - f/hold, Mansion House, Hengrove in parish of Brislington, 45 acr estate [detailed] with 2 acr orchard, 166' long fish pond, home field boarded by a fine stream. At Exchange Coffee House, Bristol on Thur. 8 May by J. Stephen. Partcrs J. Hawkwell, attorney in Bristol
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Property: to let - Easton House, Corsham, 12 m Bath, stabling for 7 horses, coach-house, garden, dove-house & 15 acres pasture. Partcrs Mr Mereweather of Calne, or Mr John Pritchard of Corsham House (who will show premises).
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Property: auction - the Woolpacks Inn at Beckington, newly built, on the premises on 11 Apr by Samuel Wilkins. Inc. bar, 2 parlours, kitchen, tap room, large dining room, 6 bedchambers with garrets over, brew-house, cooler, mash-tub etc suitable to brew nr 50 bshls/day, cellaring for 300/400 hghd, stable & garden adj. Partcrs from Mr W. Flower at said Inn
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Finance: bankruptcy - William Essex, dealer in liquors, of Bath, to surrender 25 & 26 Apr & 20 May at the Star & Garter in Worcester.
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Leisure: New Assembly Rooms - Ball for MC on 21 Apr. Tickets from Mr Dawson in Rivers St; at New Assembly Rooms; at Bull's & Pratt's circulating libraries
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Leisure: Lower Assembly rooms - Ball for MC on 25 Apr. Tickets of Mr. Tyson in Pierrepont St; at Rooms & booksellers.
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Visitors: arrivals in Bath - Lady Clarges, Mr & Lady Mary Blair, Hon Mrs Vane, Hon Miss Egerton [NOTP], Dean of Salisbury
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Publications: "MS Sermons of late Bishop Wilson" deposited in Sion College Library London on 3 April by Rev C. Cruttwell (editor) & R. Cruttwell (printer of said works)
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Marriages: Mr Basil Wood, son of Leighton Wood, esq., of Kingsdown, to Miss Sabery, tutress to Miss Temple's school in St James's Bristol, on Monday [7 Apr]
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Crime: unlawful gambling - Magistrates congratulated for destruction on 2 EO tables, taken from 2 houses in Bath & burnt in the Market Place on Sat [5 Apr]
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Goods: at Salisbury Lady fair, cheese sold for 36s-50s/cwt, but near 40 tons unsold
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Crime: Taunton Assizes, ordered for transportation for 7 yrs - Edw. Butler for stealing wearing apparel, etc from a lodging house in Queen Sq; Amos Rosewell, for stealing several silver spoons from Wm. Dawson, esq., in Milsom St; George Goodin [sic], a post-boy, for stealing a letter (containing bills of great value) out of the mail in conveying it from Bath to Bristol
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Leisure: Theatre Royal Bath - Thurs, The School for Scandal" with "The Critic"; Sat, "The Pilgrim" with pantomime "The Necromancer" last time this season.
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Property: for sale - diverse f/hold & l/hold estates & premises in & nr Bath. Enq Mr Jelly, attorney at law, 12 Axford's Bldgs, Bath
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Finance: persons indebted to estate of the late Mr Samuel Stawell, cooper, decd., of the Bottle & Glass, to pay debts to excrs (George Balne, baker in Horse St; or to Mr Tho. Parsons, Claverton St, Bath). Persons with demands on estate of said Samuel Stawell to send A/C to Excrs.
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Leisure: Lower Assembly Rooms - "Observations with Readings" by Mr Pratt every evening in Passion week (except Good Friday). Incs. Grey's [sic - Gray's] "Elegy", Mrs Thrale's "The Three Warnings", passages from Blair's "Sermons", Gray's "Prospect of Eton College", Mason's "Ode to Melancholy", etc. Subs ¢ guin for whole course, or 2s 6d per lecture recvd at Mr Pratt's library in Milsom St.
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Publications: "Emma Corbet" by Mr Pratt, 5th Edtn., 2 vols to be published in a few days with frontispiece to each vol by Kauffman & Bartolozzi.
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Property: to let - at Swainswick, immediate entry, good dwelling house, 2 parlours, pantry, kitchen, 4 bedchambers, good garrets, stable, coach-house, room over, large garden & pasture ca. 2 acr. Enq Mr Gunning at Lambridge [sic]; or Mr Gunning, attorney in the Vineyards, Bath
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Fashion: S. Foret & Kennelly, French & Italian stay-makers, continue business at their house nr The Cross Bath. Ladies stays & jumps, corsets, etc. Ladies habits made in the first fashion.
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Goods: auction - small library of books, fine old china, etc., at 7 Rivers St, Bath on 10 Apr by Mr Plura.
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Travel: open letter to the Mayor from " a lodger" complaining of - loud crying of the hour & ¢-hour by watchmen; of early carriages being exercised [noisily] by being driven up & down the [cobbled] roads while waiting.
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Politics: Mr Pitt gave notice on Monday, that he would submit to the House on 7 May a proposal for reforming representation in the House of Commons (London, 11 Apr)
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Politics: trade relations with USA - Henry Laurens, esq., travelling to France in a few days as one of the American Cmssnrs to negotiate a commercial treaty with Gt Britain. David Hartley to be the Cmssnr for this country
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Marriages: Mr Wm. Turner, corn-factor, to Miss Betsey Eames, dtr of late Mr John Eames, wine-merchant of Bristol [NFD]
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Marriages: Mr John Hazard, aged 70, to Miss Mary Ann Lunt, age 30, at Bedminster Church [NFD].
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Deaths: Mr Aaron Jones, carver & gilder of Bristol [NFD]
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Deaths: Mr Reader, a few years since a supervisor of Excise, but late a maltster, of Bristol [NFD].
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Deaths: Nathaniel Foy, esq., one of the aldermen of Bristol [NFD].
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Deaths: Mrs Coleman, wife of Robt. Coleman, esq., of Kingsdown [NFD]
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Property: to let - at Swainswick, immediate entry, good dwelling house, 2 parlours, pantry, kitchen, 4 bedchambers, good garrets, stable, coach-house, room over, large garden & pasture ca. 2 acr. Enq Mr Gunning at Langbridge [sic]; or Mr Gunning, attorney in the Vineyards, Bath
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Property: to let - a house in the Grove, now in possn of Mr John Gent, apothecary. Partcrs Mr Hulbert of Pickwick; or of Mr Masters, Wade's Pssge, Bath
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Property: to let or sell - house, 3 rooms/floor on 4th side of Garrard St, late in possn of Mr Williams, brewer. Also, a mssge in Paradise Row. Enq Chas. Davis, painter
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Property: to let - apartments with 4 rooms/floor at 1 Westgate Bldgs, Bath [? Enq Charles Davis, painter]
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Music: to be sung for at Mr George Munro's sign of the Greyhound in South Wraxall - a silver cup (value 3 guin) to the company who shall sing the best 2-voice songs, 2/3/4-voice songs, & 2 catches; 2nd prize,a silver punch ladle value 15s. On 30 Apr (not Tue in afternoon week, as advertised before). Dinner to be on the table at 1 o'c. Tickets 1s 6d each to be had at the Pelican & Royal Oak, Bradford; etc
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Travel: new coach from Christopher Inn, Markt Pl, Bath daily exc Sun. at 8am to Bristol (2s) & Hotwells (2s 6d). Performed by Joseph Mansford, corn-factor, 6 Kingsmead Sq., Bath (where coaches may be had for the day & gentlemen supplied with white or black oats, hay, etc
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Property: to let - Bathford House, 2¢ miles from Bath. Commodious dwelling house, 1st floor dressing room, dining parlour, breakfast parlour & bedroom adj, 5 best bedrooms & servants rooms, laundry over kitchen, good beer cellar, wine vaults, 6-stall stable, 2 coach-houses, all in 2 acr garden. Partcrs Mr Harford, attorney; or Mr Wm. Evans, gocer in Green St, Bath
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Inns: to let or sell - old accustomed public house "Tumbledown Dick" or "Noah's Ark" in Orange Court (& back way to Market), with a large convenient brew-house. Enq Mrs Gillam in Orange Grove; or Mr Taylor in Horse St, Bath
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