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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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| Deaths: Mrs Baxter, wife of Mr Baxter in Broad St, Bath on Thursday. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 408/ article:3 b |
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| Deaths: Mrs Baker (relict of Mr Baker, tailor of Bath) in Chandos Bldgs, Bath on Friday. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 409/ article:3 b |
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| Deaths: Mrs Maria Frances Stowey (wife of Philip Stowey, esq of Henbury, Devon) on Saturday. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 410/ article:3 b |
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| Deaths: Mrs Couran, wife of Major Couran, after a painful & lingering illness on Sunday. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 411/ article:3 b |
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| Marriages: Mr Lankesheer, jnr. of Horse St, Bath to Miss Mary Sumpsion of Monkton Combe at St James's Church on Monday. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 412/ article:3 b |
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| News: ## on Thursday last, Commissioners of this City again fined Wm. Tucker lamplighter for Walcot Parish 10 guin for not lighting the lamps in proper time & keeping them burning their stated hours. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 413/ article:3 b |
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| Military: ## a militia man quartered in Wells for treasonable utterances against His Majesty received 400 lashes last Friday from 4 buglers. His sentence inflicts a further 400 lashes & then to be drummed out of the regiment. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 414/ article:3 b |
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| Music: benefit of Master & Miss Taylor - concert vocal & instrumental music at New Assembly Rooms on Wednesday at 7 o'clock. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 415/ article:3 c |
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| Travel: Frome Turnpike road - meeting of trustees on Fri 22 Feb at 11 o'clock at George Inn, Frome. J A Wickham, clerk & treasurer. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 416/ article:3 c |
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| Finance: drawing of last English lottery commenced at Meyler's licenced office in the Grove on Monday. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 417/ article:3 c |
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| Leisure: benefit Miss Wallis - the tragedy of "Percy, Earl of Northumberland" by Miss H More, plus a ballad sung by Mr Haynes in the character of a British tar, with "The Devil to Pay" at Theatre Royal Bath on Tue 26 Feb, Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 418/ article:3 c |
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| Politics: Association for Preserving Liberty, Property & the Constitution of Great Britain against Republicans & Levellers - alphabetical list of members now lies at Mr Meyler's in the Grove. A Moysey, chairman. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 419/ article:3 c |
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| Property: to let at Lady Day next - modern built mansion called "The Great House" with 4 acres of land at Holt near Bradford on Avon. Rows of elm trees, coach-house & stabling for 10 horses.Particulars John Newton, esq Freshford; or Mr Thomas Joyce, Bradford. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 420/ article:3 c |
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| Employment: well educated lady of means requires partnership or sole ownership of ladies boarding school near London or Bristol. Apply by letter to F.G.H at printers. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 421/ article:3 d |
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| Employment: 40 year old butler & valet requires position in Bath. Apply Mr Ewing, brewer, Westgate Street. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 422/ article:3 d |
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| Goods: for sale - 15 bags prime Spanish wool at 10% under market price. Enq at printers for sample. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 423/ article:3 d |
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| Goods: auction - a sideboard of plate, epergne, engravings of the siege & taking of Portobello, property of deceased gentleman. At 10 Milsom Street on Tue 26 Feb by Messrs Plura & Bally. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 424/ article:3 d |
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| Property: to let - by year, excellent lodging house, furniture modern & elegant. Situation within 6d fare of Baths, Pump Room etc, permanent tenants preferred. Cards of address left with printer. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 425/ article:3 d |
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| Property: auction - to let in fee, by order of Bath Improvement Commissioners, plot of land, 113 ft in front W, next to new intended Union St, by ca 40ft deep, for building 6 houses thereon to form part of E-side of Union St. Apply Mr Thomas Baldwin, Great Pulteney St, Bath for plan of several plots of land. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 426/ article:3 d |
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| Property: to let - in fee by auction - 2 plots of land for building houses on E-side of Burton St, Bath with frontages 17' 41' respectively. Apply Mr Thomas Baldwin, Great Pulteney Street for plan of several plots of land. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 427/ article:3 d |
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| Charity: ## concert at Upper Rooms Wed 27 Feb, under gratuitous direction of Mr Rauzzini for support of Bath City Infirmary (& Dispensary) which is destitute of funds in its extended & improved form. By order of cmmtee, J R Miller, president. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 428/ article:3 e |
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| Goods: Litherland's patent lever watch manufactured in Liverpool, sold at J L Newman's repository on the Walks. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 429/ article:3 e |
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| Health: Mr Joseph Miller, surgeon, apothecary & man-midwife has taken over the house & shop of Mr Rowland Bayley in Frome. Apprentice wanted. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 430/ article:3 e |
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| Agriculture: Bath & West of England Soc (for encouragement of Agric, Arts, Manufacturing & Commerce) - report of AGM on 12 Feb. Models of a winnowing machine, & of threshing machine (with winnowing apparatus) were produced. New members inc W Gore Langton, esq; etc. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 431/ article:3 e |
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| Travel: imports at Bristol - bacon 6 bales, barilla 10 bales, beef 20 barrels, butter 153 casks, clover feed 3 sacks, lard 89 barrels, lemons & oranges 2 brls 125 boxes, oats 3,040 bushels, pork 160 barrels, raisins 4,693 baskets, Irish tallow 35 hhds, wheat 4,528 bushels. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 432/ article:4:00 AM |
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| Travel: coal canal - meeting of colliers of Dunkerton, Camerton ,Timsbury, Paulton & Radstock & landowners interested in creating a canal from northern collieries to Bath held 4 Feb. Next meeting Mon 8 May at Old Down Inn. H H Coxe in chair. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 433/ article:4 b |
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| Military: Army vote - augmentatation of army of 9,945 men inc 2,369 invalids. £438,837 1s 11d for maintaining them, £130,950 for charge of 100 Co's of Foot, £283,458 2s 6d for embodied militia, £32,520 for expenses of general & staff office, etc Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 434/ article:1:00 AM |
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| Goods: Mr Harman, saddler & harness maker, Horse St, Bath has taken a commodious rope walk & makes & sells best quality rope & twine at Bristol prices. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 435/ article:1 e |
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| Employment: apprentice wanted by Mr Harman, saddler, Horse St, Bath. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 436/ article:1 e |
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| News: ## the export is prohibited till end of present session of Parliament - of any sort of corn, meal or flour, bread or biscuit, oats, oatmeal etc. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 437/ article:2:00 AM |
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| Agriculture: grain etc prices - Devizes 21 Feb, wheat 38s - 58s, peas 32s - 48s, beans 32s - 48s, barley 25s - 34s, oats 21s - 26s/qtr. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 438/ article:2 b |
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| Goods: Mark Lane, 25 Feb - scanty supply of all kinds of grain because of embargo. Total 1,728 qtrs wheat sold at av price 45s 6½d - 6½d dearer than last week. Fine flour 38s, 2nds 33-35s/[?] Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 439/ article:2 b |
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| Goods: average sugar price w-e 20 Feb - 59s 1d/cwt excl customs duty. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 440/ article:2 b |
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| Agriculture: average price of grain through England 16 Feb - wheat 5s 10d, rye 4s 4½d, barley 3s 8¼d, oats 2s 3½d, beans 4s 3½d, peas 4s 5d. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 441/ article:2 b |
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| Goods: meat prices - Smithfield, to sink the offal, ox beef 3s-3s 6d, weth mutton 3s 6d - 4s, veal 4s-5s, pork 3s-4s/stone of 8lbs. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 442/ article:2 b |
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| Goods: auction - a collection of prints in burnished gold frames & a few paintings, property of a gentleman. At his auction room in Monmouth St, Bath on Tue 5 Mar by Wm. Potter, Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 443/ article:2 c |
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| Property: to let - elegantly furnished house in the Circus, by the month. Apply Wiliam Potter. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 444/ article:2 d |
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| Property: auction - newly erected f/hold messuage or tenement, 5 American Bldgs, nr entrance into Charlcombe Lane from Lansdown Rd, Walcot Parish. Front garden 50' long, back garden nr 60'. G.R £1 5s p.a. At Gloucester & Oxford Inn nr Walcot Church on 5 Mar by J Stafford. Partics Mr Orchard, Chapel Court. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 445/ article:2 d |
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| Property: auction in fee - f/hold estates, lot 1/4 public house, Red Lion, Woolverton, in occup. John Collett, on turnpike rd with yard, garden, brewhouse etc & ca 14 acres land. At White Hart Inn Bath on Tue 19 Mar. Apply Broderip & Melliar, Wells Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 446/ article:2 d |
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| Property: auction in fee - f/hold, lot 2/4, close of land adj. Monkley Lane, Woolverton, 5 acres, occupation James Roddaway. At White Hart Inn Bath on Tue 19 Mar. Apply Broderip & Melliar, Wells Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 447/ article:2 d |
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| Property: auction in fee - f/hold estates - lot 3/4, 25 acres arable & meadow land in Woolverton occupation James Roddoway. At White Hart Inn Bath Tue 19 Mar. Apply Broderip & Melliar, Wells Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 448/ article:2 d |
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| Property: auction in fee - f/hold, lot 4/4 farm & farmhouse etc & 180 acres land, occup John Clements with 2 woods at Woolverton on l-side of road from Frome to Bath at 4th milestone. At White Hart Inn Bath on 19 Mar. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 449/ article:2 d |
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| Property: auction in fee - f/hold, lot 4/4 contd - Also, in hundred of Whitway with manor of Rode & Langham inc mineral rights, 60 acres at Vagg's Hill in occup James Roddaway with various reversions, etc. Believed to be coal here. At White Hart Inn Bath on 19 Mar. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 450/ article:2 d |
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| Property: for sale - manor of Leigh & Coleford, farm & 64 acres, now let to Richard Cable st rent £70 p.a, he paying all taxes. Several dwelling houses, cottages & gardens. Partics Mr Bowden attorney, Frome. View apply Mr Richard Cable, tenant. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 451/ article:2 e |
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| Finance: accounts of East India Company. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 452/ article:3:00 AM |
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| Visitors: arrivals in Bath - Earl & Countess of Haddington, Lady Jane Edwards, Sir Robert Harvey, Lady Gilbert [NOTP]. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 453/ article:3 b |
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| Marriages: Sylvestor Pryor Bean, esq of Stoke sub Hampden to Miss Mary Rodbard at St Michael's Church [Bath] on Thursday. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 454/ article:3 b |
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| Marriages: Mr John Mason, surgeon of Sodbury to Miss Mary Moger of Woolverton on Thursday. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 455/ article:3 b |
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| Marriages: Mr Richard Watts of Hinton to Miss Ann Sainsbury, dtr of Francis Sainsbury, esq of Seend, Wilts, on Thursday last. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 456/ article:3 b |
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| Marriages: Mr Stephen Bonnett to Miss Ann Woodsford of Toller Porcorum, Dorset on Saturday. Request a copy of the full article | Bath Chronicle 457/ article:3 b |