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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: a new elegant postcoach from Lamb Inn, Stall Street to the Swan with 2 Necks, Lad Lane, London. Fare £1 5s, performed by Dover & Co, Bath. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1100/ article:2 c |
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| Goods: kitchen furniture of double block tin - manufactured at Stone & Co, 134 Oxford Street, London. Complete set for £8 8s [list], this inc. tea kettles 5s, coffee & chocolate pots & mill 5s, set of saucepans £1 1s, set of stewpans £1 5s, carp or fish kettles 14s, etc. Mr Stone in Bath for short time, so leave address with printer. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1101/ article:2 c |
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| Services: persons willing to contract for repairing road from Bathwick Fields to Claverton Down may apply to Mr Baldwin, architect. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1102/ article:2 d |
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| Finance: all persons with claims on (or debts owing) estate of late Mr Thos. Whitaker, clothier of Melksham to send A/C (or pay) Mr Benj. Webb of Melksham. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1103/ article:2 d |
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| Property: for sale - 2 messuages in Kingsmead; & one in Cucumber Lane Bath. Enq to William Percival, attorney, Bath Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1104/ article:2 d |
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| Charity: His Majesty has given approval for Dean of Westminster to apply money from next years musical entertainment at [Westminster] Abbey to the Sons of Clergy & to Middlesex Hospital, & instead of St George's Hospital & Westminster Infirmary as in previous years (London, 3 July) Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1105/ article:3:00 AM |
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| Property: to let - for remainder of summer, small country house, genteelly furnished, ¾ mile form Bath. Apply 10 Duke St, Parades, Bath. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1106/ article:3 b |
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| Leisure: Villa Gardens - concert of vocal & instrumental music, with illuminations & fireworks by Sgnr Invetto on Monday 9 July. Public tea in sason on Thursdays &Saturdays. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1107/ article:3 c |
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| Agriculture: Wm. Matthews, sec to Bath Agricultural Society informs gentlemen farmers that he has for sale direct from Norfolk, cream or sugar loaf transplanted turnip seed at 1s/lb, etc. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1108/ article:3 c |
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| Livestock: for sale - 3 very good horses property of a bankrupt, by Chas. Demander, livery stables at Pelican Inn, Walcot Street, next Saturday. Sold by commission only. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1109/ article:3 c |
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| Leisure: Spring Gardens Vauxhall - concert of vocal & instrumental msuic with illuminations & fireworks on Tue 10 July. Tickets 1s at gate of Gardens; & of Mr Pritchard, Parade Coffee House, Bath. Public tea Thursday & Friday in season with French horns & clarinets 1s. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1110/ article:3 d |
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| Pets: lost - a spaniel dog answers to "Ranger" from Wm. Freeth's wagon at Haygrove Coal Pit on 21 June. ½-guin reward if brought to Mr Hulbert at Thingley nr Corsham Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1111/ article:3 d |
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| Livestock: for sale - a complete pony, 6 yrs old, perfectly sound & free from blemish. At Mr Higgins's stables, Kingsmead St, Bath on Fri or Sat. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1112/ article:3 d |
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| Architecture: builders - any person willing to contract for masons, carpenters, plasterers & painters' work either separately or altogether may apply to Mr Baldwin, architect [Bath] Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1113/ article:3 d |
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| Visitors: arrivals in Bath - Lord Leitrim, Lady Dalrymple, Hon Mrs Vansitart, Sir Charles Marsh & Lady, Lady Croft [NOTP]. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1114/ article:3 d |
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| Marriages: Thomas Crook, esq of Tytherton nr Chippenham, to Miss Bayliffe, eldest dtr of G. Serle Bayliffe, esq of Pickwick House, on Tuesday last. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1115/ article:3 d |
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| Churches: The Chancellor of this Diocese has appointed Rev James Phillott D.D. rector of Bath & Rev Thomas Head Dowson A.M curate of Walcot, surrogates, to grant marriage licences. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1116/ article:3 d |
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| News: ## last week, by order of the Mayor an inquest of weights & measures made through Bath, & a great number of defective & fraudulent items were taken from their owners. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1117/ article:3 d |
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| Deaths: Geo Scott, esq of Paddington & Mrs Eliza Segar of Mells (who married in Bath 6 weeks ago) were found dead in bed on Friday morning. They had retired the previous night in apparent good health. "How sudden the transition from altar to tomb" Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1118/ article:3 d |
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| Livestock: Their Graces of Devonshire purchased 3 fine horses from Mr Allwood of Bath last week. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1119/ article:3 d |
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| Charity: charitable donations England & Wales 1785, county returns made by Ministers & Churchwardens to overseers - Somrst £70,946 5s 8d; Wilts £38,397 16s 0d; Gloucs £70,208 7s 5d; Kent £116,477 17s 11d; Yorkshire £106,225 8s 11d; etc Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1120/ article:4 b |
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| Crime: 13 transports [sic] arrived at Bristol from Gloucester last Mon, & were lodged in gaol 1 night & then senty off at 2o'c on Tue for Portsmouth to be embarked on board the transport ships for Botany Bay. Convicts inc. Cleaver, the noted housebreaker; etc Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1121/ article:1 b |
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| Goods: at Hereford Fair last Mon, coarse wool sold from 9s-16s/stone, & fine wool from 17s to £1 1s. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1122/ article:1 b |
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| Marriages: Mr Thomas Bagnall age 74 to Miss Bagley age 14 at Penn near Wolverhampton. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1123/ article:1 b |
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| Travel: Warminster & Frome to Bath turnpike - Trustees meet by adhournment at Black Dog Inn on Standerwick Common on Tue 17 July at 11am to elect 4 trustees in room of like number decd (3 for Wilts, one for Somrst). J Maskelyn, clerk Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1124/ article:1 c |
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| Travel: Thurs evening as Bath & Bristol postcoach from Saracen's Head, Friday Street was passing Holborn Bridge a sudden jolt & the guard was thrown from the roof. His leg was broken in a terrible manner & he was taken to St Bartholomew's hospital with little hope of recovery. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1125/ article:2 b |
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| Finance: From Stamp Office, Wells, 7 July - all persons licensed to sell perfumery must renew their licences after 5 July by applying to H E Howe, Bath. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1126/ article:2 b |
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| Travel: auction - gentleman's postchaise with harness for pair of horses, little used, construction for box, capable of use with pair of shafts or a pole. By order of the proprietor at the Castle Inn Devizes on 19 July. May be viewed at Mr Swayne's, coach & harness maker in Devizes. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1127/ article:2 c |
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| Employment: wanted by commissioners of Bath, a sober active young man who can write a good hand to survey streets & lanes etc & remove nuisances & see that the pitching & pavement is kept in good repair. None but good masons need apply with specimen of writing at Guildhall on 19 July Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1128/ article:2 d |
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| Leisure: Spring Gardens Vauxhall - concert, with illuminations & grand display of fireworks on Tues 17 July to begin at 7 p.m. In interval, a new pastoral glee "Village Courtship" or the "Country Wake". Tickets 1s at gardens; or Mr Pritchard, Parade Coffee House. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1129/ article:3 b |
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| Property: to let - & enter immediately, good snuff mill with plenty of water winter & summer; also house etc at Weston 1 mile from Bath. Enq Christopher Shallard, Steels Mills, Keynsham. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1130/ article:3 b |
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| Livestock: for sale - handsome black coachhorse, full tail & mane, 8 yrs old, 15 hands 3" high, seen at Partridge's livery stables, back of the Circus. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1131/ article:3 b |
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| Property: to let - dwelling house for small family at Rudgeside in Corsham parish, 1½ miles from high road for London, & at back of Paul Methuen, esq [estate]. Breakfast parlour eating room 20' X 17', dining room ove 20'X17', bedchambers, kitchen, butler's pantry, coach-house, stabling, etc. Enq Mr Hulbert nr premises; Mr Lawrence, 2 Alfred St, Bath; etc Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1132/ article:3 b |
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| Property: for sale - freehold estate situated at Bilton or Billuton, Somerset, 6 miles Bristol, 9 miles Bath. Very low taxed & rented to Mr Edwards of the copper mills near premises at £63 p.a. Apply Mr Lawrence, 2 Alfred Street, Bath. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1133/ article:3 b |
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| Education: Mrs Henryson (widow of Dr Henryson formerly of Totnes Devon) has opened a school at the end of New King St, Bath for 8 young ladies, opening 23 July. 15 guin per year, washing & residence not included, also day school at 1 guin/quarter. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1134/ article:3 c |
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| Travel: new stage coach every morning at 8 a.m from Shakespeare & Greyhound in Market Place, Bath to Ship at Bristol, returns 5 pm. Calls at Pelican, Thomas St, Bristol going & coming. Performed by Wm. Hill. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1135/ article:3 c |
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| Art: painting in oils, miniature & crayons etc by Mr Vaslet, 43 Walcot St, Bath. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1136/ article:3 c |
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| Travel: Mr Moore's original [patent elastic] chaises may be seen at Mr Dash's coachyard, & a copper plate print of it. Agent Mr George Evill, corner of Bridge Street, Market Place, Bath. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1137/ article:3 c |
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| Goods: for sale - a quantity of genuine Hereford cider & real Taunton squash perry in bottles, orders received by Philip Tully, North Parade, Bath. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1138/ article:3 d |
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| Goods: a gentleman just arrived from Jamaica had brought a few puncheons of pine rum distilled in 1784 by a planter for his own use, who has since deceased. A sample may be seen & tasted at Mr Tucker's, brandy merchant, 27 St James Street. To sell for ready money. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1139/ article:3 d |
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| Visitors: arrivals in Bath - Lord F Cavendish, Sir Wm. Bowyer, Hon Mrs Browne [NOTP]. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1140/ article:3 d |
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| Churches: we hear the Rev Dr Lovell, our Archdeacon intends holding his visitation in Bath on Wed 1 Aug. 1787. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1141/ article:3 d |
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| Marriages: Mr Wm. Heath to Miss Davy, milliner in the Grove, at Abbey Church yesterday. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1142/ article:3 d |
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| Marriages: Sir John Whalley Smythe Gardiner, bart of Tackley Park, Oxfordshire to Miss Martha Newcombe, daughter of late Dr Newcombe, Dean of Rochester by special licence at Octagon Chapel on Saturday morning . Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1143/ article:3 d |
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| Deaths: obituary notice for Rev Richard Scroop [sic = Scrope] D.D on 5 Jul. Lineally descended from John, Baron Scrope [sic] of Bolton, Yorks in time of King Edward 1st. He married Anne Lambert of Boyton, & left issue William age 16yrs, & a dtr Harriet married to Pierce Walsh Porter, esq. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1144/ article:3 d |
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| Science: "An Account of the 3 volcanoes on the Moon" by Wm. Herschel, LL.D., FRS read before the Royal Society 26 Apr 1787. Signed by Wm. Herschel, Slough, near Windsor. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1145/ article:4:00 AM |
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| News: weather - England enjoying such fine weather as was scarcely clear remembered. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1146/ article:1:00 AM |
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| Law: ref to a recent Royal proclamation to punish profanity on the Sabbath, drunkenness, gaming & other similar activities. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 1147/ article:1:00 AM |
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| Goods: in reign of King Charles IInd, tea was sold only at Thomas Garraway's in 'Change Alley [London]. Now at least 30,000 tea-dealers in this island. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 2462/ article:2 b |
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| Churches: recent division between the Methodists in Bristol, late in connexion with Mr Wesley, on whether C of E clergy or laymen should administer the Sacrament. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 2463/ article:2 b |