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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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| Travel: Kennet & Avon Canal - next quarterly gen meeting of Cmmttee at White Hart Inn Bath on Fri 14 Sept. From John Ward, principal clerk, Marlborough 20 Aug. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1661/ article:2 d |
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| Travel: Kennet & Avon Canal - special meeting of proprietors at house of Eleazer Pickwick, White Hart Inn Bath on 4 Sept at noon. To consider making an application to Parliament to extend the canal. Signed John Ward, principal clerk, Marlborough Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1662/ article:2 d |
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| Travel: Kennet & Avon Canal - reminder that meeting on 25 July made call of £5/full share & £2 10s/½-share to be paid on or before 25 Sept. Agents to receive payment for distant shareholders - Messrs Hobhouse, Clutterbuck & Co. (Bath); Daniel Clutterbuck, esq (Bradford) & Messrs Tyee & Sutton (Devizes); etc Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1663/ article:2 d |
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| Crime: Bartholomew Hurley, a common carrier between Wellington, Bath & Bristol, prosecuted lately for illegally collecting & carrying letters. On account of his large family, prosecution generously stopped. Hurley promises not to re-offend. Warning to carriers, coachmen & others. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1664/ article:2 e |
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| Finance: bankruptcy - persons indebted to estate of Isaac Bennett, carpenter, dealer & chapman of Walcot, requested to pay their debts to Messrs Hallett, Benton & Cheyney. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1665/ article:2 e |
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| Property: auction - lot 1/5, one half of some fee farm rents in Dover St., & Half Moon St, Walcot rent £34 8s 6d p.a. At Gloucester & Oxford Inn, parish of Walcot on Sat 5 Sep by E. English. By order of assignees of Isaac Bennett, bankrupt. Apply Mr S. Hallett, Mr Benton or Mr Cheney, assignees Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1666/ article:2 e |
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| Property: auction - lot 2/5, f/hold, plot of ground in Dover St, Bath with ½ acre. At Gloucester & Oxford Inn, parish of Walcot on Sat 5 Sep by E. English. By order assignees of Isaac Bennett, bankrupt. Apply to Mr S. Hallett, Mr Benton or Mr Cheney, assignees. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1667/ article:2 e |
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| Property: auction - lot 3/5, 2 new dwelling houses in Mark's Hill, Walcot, rent £20 p.a. At Gloucester & Oxford Inn, parish of Walcot on Sat 5 Sep by E. English. By order assignees of Isaac Bennett, bankrupt. Apply to Mr S. Hallett, Mr Benton or Mr Cheney, assignees. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1668/ article:2 e |
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| Property: auction - lot 4/5, newly built messuage in Mark's Hill, let to a tenant at £12 12s p.a. At Gloucester & Oxford Inn, parish of Walcot on Sat 5 Sep by E. English. By order of assignees of Isaac Bennett, bankrupt. Apply to Mr S. Hallett, Mr Benton or Mr Cheney, assignees Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1669/ article:2 e |
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| Property: auction - lot 5/5, two newly built messuages in Mark's Hill, let at £18 18s p.a. At Gloucester & Oxford Inn, Walcot parish on 5 Sep by E. English. By order of assignees of Isaac Bennett, bankrupt. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1670/ article:2 e |
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| Finance: bankruptcy - James Olive, shoemaker of Bath, certificate 5 Sept (from Tue Gazette [? 18 Aug]) Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1671/ article:3 b |
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| Visitors: arrivals in Bath - Earl & Countess of Sunderline [NOTP]. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1672/ article:3 b |
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| Marriages: Mr M. Viel, upholder of Bath to Mrs Watson, relict of the late Mr John Watson, surgeon of Wantage, lately. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1673/ article:3 b |
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| Marriages: Mr John Maberley of London to Miss Eliza Hensley, youngest daughter of Mr Hensley in Portland Place, at The [Queen] Square Chapel [Bath] on Thu [13 Aug]. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1674/ article:3 b |
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| Marriages: Nathaniel Bayly, esq [banker] of Bath to Miss Melusina Warburton Freeman, dtr of late Arthur Freeman, esq of Antigua, at Marylebone Church [London] on Mon [17 Aug]. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1675/ article:3 b |
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| Marriages: Mr John Howell, farrier of Bath to Miss Mary Ponton on Sun [16 Aug]. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1676/ article:3 b |
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| Marriages: Mr John Hayter of Bath to Miss Anna Pitt of Devizes, yesterday [19 Aug]. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1677/ article:3 b |
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| Deaths: Right Hon Lady Mary Stanley, at her house in the Crescent, on Mon [17 Aug]. Her loss severely felt because of all her acts of charity. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1678/ article:3 b |
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| Deaths: Mrs Searle in New King Street, Bath, after a very short illness on Sat [15 Aug]. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1679/ article:3 b |
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| Deaths: Lady Susan Gordon (one of dtrs of the Earl of Aberdeen) at her lodgings in Bath on Tue se'nnight [11 Aug]. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1680/ article:3 c |
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| Agriculture: ## grain imports - large importation of wheat from Quebec arrived in Bristol in ship "Elizabeth and Ann", other hips expected shortly. Astonishing quantities of wheat delivered on board in Quebec at 4s 6d per bushel. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1681/ article:3 c |
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| Military: promotions in the Somerset Regt of Militia, now encamped on Barham Downs Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1682/ article:3 c |
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| Charity: relief of the poor in Frome - the lowest orders of people received wheat-flour weekly at 1½d/lb & rice at 2½d/lb; & potatoes twice weekly at 5d/peck. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1683/ article:3 c |
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| Agriculture: ## collapse in wheat prices at Gloucester, price of old corn declined 2s-3s/bushel, & not all was sold Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1684/ article:3 c |
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| Law: at Somerset Assizes, Bridgewater - civil action brought against J. Norman, Sheriff's officer "of this city" [? Bath] by Eleanora Collier of Trowbridge for £10 reward received by defendant for an arrest & not accounted for. Verdict for plaintiff with costs. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1685/ article:3 c |
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| Goods: Thomas Cunditt, linen draper, has moved from 12 Milsom St. to 7 Milsom St, Bath on 19 Aug., from where he will continue his business. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1686/ article:3 d |
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| Goods: auction - variety of unredeemed pledges of Mr Wollard & others, etc. At his Auction Room 22 Westgate St, Bath on 21 Aug by H. Thurston Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1687/ article:3 d |
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| Goods: R. Lancaster, 2 Bath Street announces sale of linen drapery, mercery, hosiery, etc just received from London, Manchester & Glasgow at reduced prices. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1688/ article:3 e |
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| Military: Select Committee of Wiltshire [? for Internal Defence of Country] next meeting of select cmmttee at Black Horse Inn, Devizes on 24 Aug. From Wm. Hughes, secretary. subscription for internal defence of country Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1689/ article:3 e |
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| Leisure: Sydney Gardens Vauxhall - Merlin's swing now open (though to be conducive to health), subs 5s/3 months. Also curious grotto & labyrinth. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1690/ article:3 e |
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| Goods: auction - household furniture, linen and stock in trade of Mr James Beachim, grocer in George Street, on 19 & 20 Aug by J. Stafford. By order of the Sheriff under an execution Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1691/ article:3 e |
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| Goods: auction - entire household furniture, china, forte-piano, etc of Mr Dunkerton, at 12 Seymour Place on 24 & 25 Aug by Mr Plura. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1692/ article:3 e |
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| Publications: "Elegy on the Death of Miss Harriet Taylor" by her father John Taylor, esq.[NFD] Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1693/ article:4:00 AM |
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| Agriculture: letter II - "On the Nature & State of Supply in Bread-Corn, etc" Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1694/ article:4:00 AM |
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| Politics: Treaty with America [USA] - abstract of 23 Articles. British troops to be wirhdrawn from all posts & places in USA on or before 1 June 1796; etc; etc Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1695/ article:4 b |
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| Goods: imports at Bristol since our last - butter 50 frkn; castor oil 3 punch; coffee 28 hghd, 42 trc, 31 bags, 14 brls; cotton 51 bags; cider 27 pipes, 1 punch, 14 hghd; fustic 41 logs, 21 tons; ginger 250 bags; gum guaiacum 1 brl; hides 465; junk, & rags 31c; lemons 30 boxes; logwood 110 tons; mahogany 40 logs; piemont 182 bags; CONTD Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1696/ article:4 b |
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| Goods: recent Bristol imports, contd - pork 29 brls; rum 260 punch, 4 hghd; shumac 190 bags; skins (calf) 20 bund; sugar 1940 hghd, 131 trc, 89 brls; succades 2 casks; tamarinds 5 kegs; vells 9 brls; wheat 3650 bshls; wine (Port) 958 pipes, 53 hghd. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1697/ article:4 b |
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| Health: remedies - "True Daffy's Elixir" for cute of stone, gravel, rheumatism, colic, phthisic, dropsy, scurvy, convulsions, etc. 8oz bottle 1s 10d, small bottle 14d. Sold by R. Cruttwell, M. Lambe, J. Gibbons, S. Hazard, H. Parry, E. Russell & M. Tagg (Bath); Heath (Corsham); Prior, Sutton, Angel (Chippenham); Everett (Devizes); Bourn & Hare (Melksham); etc Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1698/ article:4 d |
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| Politics: the condition of the Irish peasant is truly deplorable. He labours for 5d/day, on which he has perhaps to support a family & in several months of the year is without any employment at all. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1699/ article:1:00 AM |
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| Sport: for several years game in Manors of Bathampton & Hanging Langford destroyed. Qualified persons requested to desist from sport. Also people poaching game in neighbourhood of Bath & Bristol to desist or they will be prosecuted (Bathampton, nr Deptford Inn, 21 Aug) Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1700/ article:1 b |
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| Property: for sale or to let - George Inn, Shepton Mallett, with stables, coach-houses etc now in possession Mr Griffith. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1701/ article:1 c |
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| Crime: burglary at house of Mr W. Springford, King's Arms, Monmouth St, Bath on 23 Aug. Bar door forced to gain entry & till with large amount of ½d stolen. 2 guin reward from Mr Springford for discovery & committal to gaol of thief, plus 5 guin reward from Bath Guardian Society. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1702/ article:1 d |
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| Goods: auction - all stock in trade of J. Crease, painter & colourman. Inc. 2 colour mills, a painting machine, etc, a marble chimney piece inlaid with brocatelli 3'7" by 3' 6½"; groceries, tea & perfume; h/hold furniture. At 10 Bridge St, Bath on 9 Sep. et seq. by Wm. Potter,. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1703/ article:1 d |
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| Property: auction - lease of 10 Bridge St, Bath (home & premises of J. Crease, painter & colourman). On the premises on 10 Sept by Wm. Potter,. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1704/ article:1 d |
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| Agriculture: fish prices - catch of pilchards on coast of Cornwall exceeds any previous time, 200 hghd of fish in a seine net at a time. Blessing for the poor who can get 12 for 1d even in Plymouth market. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1705/ article:2 b |
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| Agriculture: Gloucester 24 Aug - no scarcity of wheat at the market on Saturday. Best old wheat at 12s-14s/bshl; few buyers for new wheat 10s-11s/bshl. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1706/ article:2 b |
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| Agriculture: grain prices - Devizes 20 Aug, wheat 100s - 108s, barley 44s - 50s, oats 32s - 38s, beans 60s - 66s per quarter. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1707/ article:2 c |
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| Agriculture: grain prices - Warminster 22 Aug, wheat 92s-120s/, barley 40s-50s/, oats 31s-35s/, beans 58s-61s/qtr Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1708/ article:2 c |
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| Goods: bread prices - peck loaf weighs 17lb 6oz, 4s 4½d; ½-peck loaf 8lb 11oz, 2s 2¼d; quartern loaf 4lb 5oz 8dr, 1s 1d. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1709/ article:2 c |
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| Agriculture: ## average price corn, England & Wales 15 Aug - wheat 115s 11d, barley 50s 9d, rye 79s 4d, oats 32s 9d, beans 51s 9d, peas 54s 2d/qtr. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1710/ article:2 c |