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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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| Charity: a lady who has a polypus in her nose & cancer in the neck thanks her benefactors. Smallest donations welcome at Mr Wood, hosier in the Churchyard; or Mr Hallet, ironmonger in Cheap St, Bath. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 749/ article:3 d |
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| Leisure: Theatre Royal Bath - Sat, "The Follies of a Day" with entertainments. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 750/ article:3 d |
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| Music: Villa Gardens - annual breakfast concert for band of horns & clarinets (Messrs Whitehead, West, Holloway & Stamp) postponed to 27 Apr. Breakfast 10 am, concert 11.30 am. Tickets 3s 6d from Mr Whitehead, Orchard St; Mr West, Pump Room Passage; Lintern's Music Shop; York House; Pump Room; Mr Marrett's, Milsom St; & Villa Gardens Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 751/ article:3 d |
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| Music: Spring Gardens - public breakfast for young lady on Sat 28 Apr. Breakfast 10 am, concert at 12. Vocalists, the young lady, Messrs Wordsworth, Blanchard, Russel & Incledon; cello Mr Herschell, etc. Tickets 3s 6d incl. breakfast from Lantern House; Spring Gardens; Parade Coffee House; Lintern's Music Shop; & Pump Room. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 752/ article:3 d |
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| Finance: bankruptcy - creditors of William Fisher, carrier, dealer & chapman of Batheaston, to meet assignees at house of George Arnold, The White Lion, Bath on 27 Spr. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 753/ article:4 c |
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| Charity: [yet another] advert (letter) from J. Lea of Winsley (dated 24 Apr) saying that he had called on Samuel Dainton to depose before a magistrate and he had refused & been reprimanded by the magistrate. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 754/ article:4 c |
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| News: Prince of Wales's debts not more than £150,000, has paid creditors £30,000. Income not more than £62,000 p.a inc Duchy, netting £10,000 p.a. Personal expenditure £16,000 p.a, inc Carlton House taxes of £1,000. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 755/ article:1:00 AM |
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| Charity: a widow in extreme distress is in immediate danger of being confined through not paying her rent. Any donations to Mr English, Broad St, Bath; or Mrs Mulleny, North Parade. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 756/ article:1 b |
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| Charity: Bath Hospital - collections from various churches on 22 Apr £277 0s 4d, with additions £291 11s 4d. Benefactions since 25 Dec 1786, total £561 9s 3d inc. a legacy of £300 from late Mr Robert Boney. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 757/ article:1 c |
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| Travel: Frome turnpike roads - trustees meeting at George Inn Frome on 10 May. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 758/ article:1 c |
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| Crime: door-panel cut through & attempts to break into Mr S Hazard's shop in Cheap Street on 26 April. Reward for information leading to conviction of offenders, 5 guin from Bath Soc of Guardians, & 5 guin from Mr Hazard. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 759/ article:1 c |
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| Finance: Bath Sun Fire Office - general meeting will be held at Old Rooms on 8 May. J Salmon, secretary. Several leather buckets have been missing since Avon Street fire. Info to J Salmon, Stall Street. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 760/ article:1 d |
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| Property: for sale - Kellaway's Mill, 3 miles from Chippenham, tenant Mr Thomas Stevenson. Partcrs Mr Baldwin, architect, Bath. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 761/ article:1 d |
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| Politics: farming [collection] of Post-horse duty bill - first reading. Mention was made by Mr Pitt of the Post Office revenue arising from the crossroads being let to Mr Allen. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 762/ article:2:00 AM |
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| Goods: ## "Dr Armstrong's Vegetable green paint" for indoor & outdoor painting, large quantity at 2s 6d/lb from Joseph Horler, 8 Lower Borough Walls, Bath. Also linseed oil, etc. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 763/ article:2 d |
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| Deaths: Mr[s] Elwes, wife of the Rev Mr Elwes of Bitton [NFD] Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 764/ article:3 b |
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| Deaths: John Addison, esq of Whitby, Yorks. on his way to Bath, age 62. [NFD] Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 765/ article:3 b |
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| Finance: bankruptcy - John Peterswald, tobacconist, Bath to surrender to Cnssnrs at White Hart Inn Bath on 4 May, 18 May & 12 June. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 766/ article:3 b |
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| Leisure: Villa Gardens - Grand Exhibition intended Monday last, was postponed due to bad weather, & will be held on 7 May weather permitting. To begin at 8pm. Entrance 1s. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 767/ article:3 b |
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| Goods: auction - all household goods of Mr James Fryer, decd. At his dwelling house, Wiltshire Park, near Farleigh Castle on 3 May by E English. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 768/ article:3 b |
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| Property: auction - house adjoining the Lamb Inn, Stall St, & 3 tenements in the court behind, leased from Bath Corporation, rent £60 p.a. At Lamb Inn, Bath on Monday 21 May. Apply Mr James Beale, 10 Alfred St, Bath. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 769/ article:3 b |
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| Property: auction - 3 houses on Borough Walls in street leading from Stall St to St James's Parade, now let at rents of £16, £13 & £10. At Lamb Inn Bath on Monday 21 May. Apply Mr James Beale, 10 Alfred Street. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 770/ article:3 b |
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| Finance: bankruptcy - commission issued against John Peterswald, tobacconist, dealer & chapman. To surrender at house of Eleazer Pickwick, White Hart Inn, Stall Street to make full disclosure of his estate on 4 May, 18 May & 12 June. Creditors & debtors apply to Edward Vernon Goodall, attorney, Bath. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 771/ article:3 b |
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| Leisure: Villa Gardens - breakfast concert with horns & clarinets (postponed on account of weather [? on 27 Apr]) now fixed for 4 May. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 772/ article:3 c |
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| Music: New Assembly Rooms - Mr Cantelo's benefit of catches & glees is unavoidably postponed to 16 May. Books of performance will be given at the door. Tickets 5s from Mr Cantelo, 6 Fountain Buildings; or at New Assembly Rooms. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 773/ article:3 c |
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| Goods: Coles, 7 Northgate St, Bath - genuine French wax lights 2s 9d/lb; finest English do 2s 6d/lb; best refined spermaceti candles 2s 2d/lb or 25s/doz. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 774/ article:3 c |
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| Visitors: arrivals in Bath - Duke & Duchess of Ancaster, Lord Frederick Cavendish, Lady Aylmer, Lady Harriet Rooper, Lady Frances Bulkley, Hon Miss Prynn, Sir Richard Strahan, Sir F. Lemon Rogers, Sir Stafford Northcote, Le Comte de la Freilie. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 775/ article:3 c |
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| Goods: the proprietor of the Universal Toy Shop in the Grove has many new items. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 776/ article:3 c |
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| Deaths: the wife of George Ramsay, esq., at his house in Queen Sq, Bath, early on last Thursday morning. She was much respected by all her acquaintances. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 777/ article:3 c |
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| Deaths: Miss Ditcher, daughter of late Philip Ditcher, esq., surgeon of Bath, at St James's Square, London on Thursday. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 778/ article:3 c |
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| Crime: the gentlemen who were robbed near Box on Wednesday last were Thomas Coare, esq., & Rev Mr Hodgkinson, both of Reading. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 779/ article:3 c |
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| Leisure: review - the new comedy of "Seduction" was performed at Bath theatre last night to a brilliant & crowded audience & received with great applause. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 780/ article:3 c |
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| Crime: committed to Shepton gaol on Thursday last - John Robins, labourer charged with stealing a parcel of cloth (the property of Messrs Cam & Co, Bradford) off the head of Joseph Jones, a lad, in Stall St Bath on 3 April. Receiver of cloth is also in jail. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 781/ article:3 d |
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| Crime: John Robins in company with John Atwood & a Mr Stiles who has turned evidence are charged with robbery of an old man at Entry Hill some weeks ago. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 782/ article:3 d |
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| Leisure: Theatre Royal Bath - this evening "Such Things Are" with "All the World's a Stage"; Sat, "He Would be a Soldier" with "The Flitch of Bacon" Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 783/ article:3 d |
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| Goods: to builders & carpenters - to be sold together or in separate lots, the materials of a large modern-built dwelling house situated at Lullington, with ashlar front 60' long & 30' high. Partics Mr Thomas Napper, Frome. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 784/ article:3 d |
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| Goods: auction - household furniture, linen, china, brewing utensils, narrow wheel cart, copper furnace of 72 gall., etc., of Mr John Phillips, retiring Bridewell keeper at Devizes. On the premises at private house belonging to Bridewell Devizes on 8 & 9 May by Mr Randall, appraiser & auctioneer. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 785/ article:3 d |
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| Property: auction, estate of Mr George Symes, decd - lot 1/5, f/hold, house nr Woolley, with garden & orchard, 2 acres & a close of ground called "Tadsley" rented by Mr Thomas Webber. At Swan Inn, Bradford on 14 May by Wm. Pitman. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 786/ article:3 d |
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| Property: auction, Mr George Symes, decd - lot 2/5, f/hold, 2 closes "Bean Ground" & "Caine's Walk" at Woolley, together with ca. 4 acr & garden, now rented by Mr Robert Dicks. At Swan Inn, Bradford on 14 May by Wm. Pitman. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 787/ article:3 d |
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| Property: auction, Mr George Symes, decd - lot 3/5, f/hold, close "Two Acres" at Woolley, also rented by Mr Robert Dicks. At Swan Inn, Bradford on 14 May by Wm. Pitman. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 788/ article:3 d |
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| Property: auction, Mr George Symes, decd - lot 4/5, f/hold, pasture "Forewood's Mead" ca. 4 acr at Woolley, now in occup Mr John Beverstock. At Swan Inn, Bradford on 14 May by Wm. Pitman. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 789/ article:3 d |
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| Property: auction, Mr George Symes, decd - lot 5/5, f/hold, close "Lowberry Field" ca. 4 acr at Woolley, now rented by Mr Cornelius Lewis. At Swan Inn, Bradford on 14 May by Wm. Pitman. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 790/ article:3 d |
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| Property: auction, Mr George Symes, decd - f/hold, 10 dwelling houses with gardens at Woolley, rents together total £44 p.a. At Swan Inn, Bradford on 14 May by Wm. Pitman. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 791/ article:3 d |
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| Health: remedies - "Pectoral Essence of Coltsfoot" for coughs, asthma & wheezings, 3s 6d bottle from Mr Cruttwell in St James's St, & Mr Barratt, both Bath. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 792/ article:4 d |
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| Deaths: Mr Zephaniah Fry, an eminent woollen draper & Quaker at Fishponds in Bristol, in his 84th year [NFD]. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 793/ article:1 b |
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| Property: for sale or lease - convenient workshops in Monmouth St, Bath, late in possn Mr Caink. With dwelling house & workshops in Kingsmead St, now in possn of Mr Kilvert, rent £60 p.a & G.R £4 4s. Partics Mr James Margerum, Abbey Green, Bath; or Mr Joseph Wood, 16 Clare St, Bristol. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 794/ article:1 c |
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| Publications: by subscription, "Sermons" by Rev James Page, Reader at the Abbey Church [Bath]. In 1 vol, 8vo, 6s (Bath, 7 May) Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 795/ article:2 b |
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| Leisure: dancing, Mr Wood (late of King's Theatre & principal assistant of M. Gallini of London) intends to reside in Bath after midsummer vacation. He would attend any school 15 - 20 miles around Bath. Enq Mr Wood, Black Bear, Devizes Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 796/ article:2 b |
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| Leisure: public disorder - Bath Forum Division JPs command all Revels to be suppressed & victuallers to take notice under forfeiture of licenses. H. Walters, W. Wiltshire & Philip James Gibbs, 4 May Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 797/ article:2 d |
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| Property: auction - lot 1/9, mssge with garden & close, 4 acr in Twerton parish, with adj stabling for 8 horses now occup William Brereton, esq, t.a.w rent £21 p.a clear exc land tax. With large house now void in close on R-side Lwr Bristol Rd, 1 m Bath. At Castle & Ball nr St Michael's Church on 26 May by Thomas Bird. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 798/ article:2 d |