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Some Selected Reports from The Leicester and Nottingham Journal
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19th April, 1766
EPIGRAM.
WHEN Peace was made and Britain sav'd,
B---- wish'd the fact might be engrav'd
Upon his tomb in verse :
Fulfill, yer pow'rs, his haughty views !
With joy each Briton shall peruse,
Though it be wrote in Erse.
EPITAPH on Mr. Quinn
THAT Tongue, which set the table on a roar,
And charm'd the public ear, is heard no more !
Clos'd are those Eyes the harbingers of wit,
Which spoke before the tongue, what Shakespear writ.
Cold are those Hands, which living, were stretch'd forth,
At Friendship's call, to succour modest worth.
Here lies JAMES QUIN ! deign, reader ! to be taught !
(Whate'er thy strength of body, force of thought,
In Nature's happiest mould however cast,)
To his complexion thou must come at last.
EVENING.
By Mr. CUNNINGHAM.
O'ER the heath the heifer strays
Free;- (the furrow'd task is done)
Now the village windows blaze,
Burnish'd by the setting sun.
Now he sets behind the hill,
Sinking from a golden sky :
Can the pencil mimic skill
Copy the refulgent dye ?
Trudging as the Plowmen go,
(To the smoaking hamlet bound)
Giant-like their shadows grow,
Lengthen'd o'er the level ground.
Where the rising forest spreads,
Shelter for the lordly dome !
To their high built airy beds,
See the rooks returning home !
As the lark, with vary'd tune,
Carrols to the Evening loud;
Mark the mild resplendent moon,
Breaking through a parted cloud !
Now the hermit howlet peeps
From the barn, or twisted brake ;
And the blue mist slowly creeps,
Curling on the silver lake.
As the trout in speckled pride,
Playful from its bosom springs;
To the banks, a ruffled tide
Verges in successive rings.
Tripping through the silken grass,
O'er the path-divided dale,
Mark the rose complexion'd lass
With her well-pois'd milking pail.
Linnets with unnumber'd notes,
And the cuckow bird with two,
Tuning sweet their mellow throats,
Bid the setting sun, adieu.
Friday and Saturday's Posts.
LONDON, April 17.
A short abstract of the late Cyder act
"THAT the two acts of parliament made in the third and fourth of his present Majesty, imposing an additional duty on cyder and perry, be repealed; and that from and after the 5th of July 1766, all the duties by the said two acts ceases, with the powers and regulations by them established, except as to arrears and penalties by them incurred, and in lieu thereof other duties are imposed, viz. �3 to be paid per ton by the retailers on foreign cyder and perry made in Great Britain, and consigned to any Factor for sale; and all persons receiving cyder and perry in custody, are deemed Factors, unless from fruit of their own growth."
This morning Mr. Boreel, minister from the States General, had a conference with his Majesty's principal secretary of state, on the subject of some dispatches received from the Hague.
We hear that Sir John Lindsay is to command his Majesty's ships of war, on a cruizing station, between Cape Florida, and the mouth of the Mississippi.
A plan for the more effectual settlement and cultivation of the late neutral West India islands, has within these few days, been presented to some of the gentlemen in power, which, we are told, is approved, and will, this summer, be carried into execution.
It is said our trade with Portugal will very soon be restored to all the advantages it enjoyed in that kingdom under any former reigns.
They write from Paris, that orders had seen sent over, to continue for a time limited, the usual bounty of nine livres per head on the importation of African Negroes to the French islands.
They write from Jamaica, that some disturbances have happened between the French and Spaniards of Hispaniola, on account of the mutual desertion of their Negro slaves; and the inhabitants of Old Cape St.Louis were retiring in numbers to the English islands of Dominique and Tobago.
Some accounts, by way of Holland, mention, that Commodore Byron had sail'd from Madrass, to dislodge a renegade pyrate, who had collected a considerable force in the river Bassora, and had seized upon some of the country trading ships.
By letters from the Orkneys we learn that upwards of two hundred Dutch busses were already arrived in Brassa-Sound, from different ports of Holland in order to carry on the White-herring fishery this season at Shetland.
It is said that a packet boat will soon be established between Falmouth and the river Senegal.
The Diamond, Creamer, a transport, from Portsmouth for New York, with soldiers, is put into Cowes.
This being the first day of Easter Term, the Lord Chancellor, Judges, &c. went to Westminster-hall with the usual formality, and proceeded on business.
The man who was shot on Saturday last, in a turnip field, between Hampstead and Paddington, proves to be one Israel Wells, an industrious journeyman Carpenter, who worked with Mr. Taylor, Carpenter and Builder, in Rupert-street, Piccadilly.
They write from Sutton, near Potton, in Bedfordshire, that the man (who a few days ago, went voluntarily before a Magistrate at Bedford town and acknowledged himself to be concerned in the murder of a Gardener, at the first mentioned place, and accused two other persons as his accomplices in the said murder) had been again examined and confronted with the two men, when he greatly prevaricated, and at length owned, that he committed the murder by himself, and that no other person knew any thing of the matter. He farther added, that his conscience perpetually accused him, and that he had no rest till he had made a true confession of the above horrid fact; on which he was sent to Bedford gaol, and the two men were immediately set at liberty.
Sunday morning last, a North American Indian, a convert to the Christian religion, preached a sermon, at the Rev. Dr. Chandler's meeting in the Old Jewry, to a very numerous and polite audience, who, in general, expressed the utmost satisfaction at the appearance of genuine piety, simplicity of heart, and integrity of disposition, which were manifest in this very extraordinary preacher.
Yesterday morning a mackrel was sold at Billingsgate-marker, to his Majesty's fishmonger, for 32 shillings, being the first seen there this season.
Married.] Yesterday, at Bath, the Hon. and Rev. Mr. Digby, brother to Lord Digby, to Miss Cox, niece to Sir Charles Sheffield - Saturday, at Cheltenham in Gloucestershire, Mr. Holloway, Vintner, in the Strand, to Miss Pantin - At Reading, John Verdy, Esq; of Chelsea, to Miss Fanny Dalby, sister to Thomas Septimius Dalby, Esq; of Hurst in Berkshire - Saturday last, Mr. Will. Sam. Wotton, of the Custom-house, to Miss Webb, at Downton in Wilts - Tuesday last, at Manchester, the Rev. Mr. Eccleston, Rector of St.Paul's chapel in that town, to Miss Hart, daughter of Mr. Hart, of Salford.
Died.] Saturday the 6th instant, at Dublin, Hervey Lord Viscount Mount-Mores.- At Edinburgh, George Clepham, Esq; Deputy Receiver of the Customs - Last week, the Rev. Mr. Reddall, M.A. Vicar of Kempston, Bedfordshire, and Chaplain to his Grace the Duke of Bedford.- Yesterday, Mrs. Anne Pepys, wife of ---- Pepys, Esq: of Lincoln's Inn Fields.- Yesterday, at his house in Duke-street, Grosvenor Square, Mr. Thomas Herbert, Coal-Merchant.- Tuesday, at Ubbeston-Hall, in Suffolk, Miss Blois, sister and heiress of Sir Charles Blois, late of Cockfield Hall, Bart.- Wednesday, Mr. Elmy, Postmaster of Norwich.
Salisbury, April 14. Friday a draught was made of thirty one men from General Keppel's regiment, quartered in this city, who marched the same day for Southampton, and we hear, are to embark on board a transport for Gibraltar.
Gloucester, April 14. On Saturday the 5th instant, his grace the Duke of Beaufort and his Duchess arrived at his seat at Badminton, in this county. They were met at Calne by fifty substantial farmers, tenants to the Duke, who escorted them to Badminton, preceded by four huntsmen, in green, with French horns. As they passed through several villages, they were saluted with ringing of bells. At Badminton, the people of the adjacent country assembled to testify their joy on this happy occasion, and were entertained with that princely hospitality which has ever distinguished this noble family. After the honest farmers had been regaled with every kind of good chear, they mounted their horses, and drew up in two ranks, before the grand door of the house, to take their leave with three huzzas, and with happiness to the Duke and Dutchess; when their Graces condescended to appear at the entrance of the hall, and the duke most engagingly returned them thanks for their compliment, and assured them of his favour and protection.
Great rejoicings we hear, are intended to be made in the cyder counties on the 5th of July next : Nay, the farmers declare they shall transmit to their posterity the anniversary of that day for a perpetual holiday.
LEICESTER, April 19.
On Sunday last, Thomas Bass, of Witherly in this county, servant to the Rev. Mr. Whyley of the same place, was found dead in the parish of Witherly. The Coroner's inquest sat on the body, and brought in their verdict natural death.
ERRATUM.
In this Paper of April 5, is a mistake in the Assize of Bread; the sixpenny loaf wheaten is put down 4lb. 10oz. 2 dr. Should have been 3lb. 12oz. 12dr. Very great care will be taken for the future to prevent any mistake of the same kind.
INOCULATION.
By Mr. MORRIS, SURGEON
At Lutterworth, who has Inoculated may Years with the greatest Success.
HE has fitted up commodious Rooms, within one Mile from Lutterworth. Patients are prepared, Inoculated, Boarded, Nursed, and proper Care taken of them, and every Thing necessary provided, excepting Sheets, at the moderate Price of One Guinea and Half each Patient.
A MAIN OF COCKS.
To be Fought on Tuesday the 29th and Wednesday the 30th of this Instant April, at the White-Lion, in the Market place, LEICESTER :
BETWEEN the Gentlemen of Leicester and Loughborough : To shew 22 Cocks on each side for Two Guineas a Battle and Twenty the odd Battle, and Ten Cocks for bye Battles at One Guinea.
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| TOBIAS BINGHAM | } | |
To be SOLD,
At SYSONBY-HALL,
Near Melton-Mowbray, (now taking down)
FREESTONE Frontice-Pieces and Steps, Oak Sashes and Frames with Freestone Architraves, Floors of Stone, Brick, Board and Plaister, Iron Gates with Stone Piers and Vazes, Freestone Cornice String and Coping, common Building Stone and Bricks; with other building Materials, by Christopher Stavely, late of Melton-Mowbray, now of Sysonby, Mason and Builder.
N.B. The said Christopher Stavely, wants a Lad of 14 or 15, as an Apprentice.
Leicestershire To wit. } At the General Quarter Session of the Peace of our Sovereign Lord the KING, holden at the Castle of Leicester, in and for the said County, on Tuesday in the Week next after the Close of the Feast of Easter, TO WIT, the 8th Day of April, in the 6th Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third, now King of Great Britain and so forth, and in the Year of our Lord 1766; before the Rev. Charles Hutchinson, D.D., Charles Skrymsher Boothby, Thomas Crane, and Jonathan Grundy, Esquires, the Rev. Samuel Ashby, Thomas Willey, George Coulton and Caleb Robinson, Clerks, Justices, of our Lord the King, assigned to keep the Peace of our said Lord the King in the County aforesaid and also to hear and determine divers Felonies, Trespasses and other Misdemeanors, committed in the said County. It is Ordered by the Court here as followeth, That is to say,
IT is Ordered that the Assize of Bread in and throughout the County of Leicester, for the Week ensuing, be the same as the Assize of Bread settled in the for the Borough of Leicester, in the said County, by the Mayor of the said Borough, as the same shall be printed in the Leicester and Nottingham Journal, on Saturday the 19th instant, To wit
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| The Penny Loaf Wheaten is to weigh | 0 | 10 | 8 |
| Ditto Houshold | 0 | 14 | 4 |
| The Two-penny Loaf Wheaten | 1 | 5 | 0 |
| Ditto Houshold | 1 | 12 | 8 |
| The Six-penny Loaf Wheaten | 3 | 15 | 0 |
| Ditto Houshold | 5 | 5 | 9 |
| The Twelve-penny Loaf Wheaten | 7 | 14 | 0 |
| Ditto Houshold | 10 | 11 | 2 |
| The Eighteen penny Loaf Wheaten | 11 | 13 | 0 |
| Ditto Houshold | 16 | 0 | 11 |
Note, In and throughout the said County White Bread is to be fairly mark'd with a large Roman W. Wheaten Bread, with W. and Household with H. and the Bakers are to imprint on all Loaves for Sale, the initial Letters of their Names.
And it is ordered that the same Assize of Bread shall be observed and continued from Week to Week, in and throughout the said county aforesaid, as printed and published in the said Journal, and so to be used and observed until another Assize is printed therein, in and for the said Borough, and that then the Assize of Bread in and for the said County, shall be regulated according to the assize of Bread in and for the said Borough, printed weekly in the said Journal, and so to be used and observed until the next General Quarter Session of the peace, to be holden in and for the said County. And it is further ordered, that all Bakers in the said County of Leicester, do make their bread to such Assizes; Upon their neglecting so to do they will be prosecuted according to Act of Parliament, in that case made and provided.
By the Court,
PARKE
Clerk of the Peace, of the County aforesaid.
To be SOLD by AUCTION,
By JOHN POCKLINGTON;
On Tuesday the 22d of this Instant April, 1766, at Mr. William Ascough's, being the Sign of the Saracen's Head in Leicester.
THE Remainder part of a Lease under the Dutchy of Lancaster - Consisting of Eight Tenements, situate in the High-Cross street, Leicester, and Lett at the Years Rent of Twenty-three Pounds Five Shillings, and in the Tenure of John Fosbery, Thomas Johnson, William Alsop, William Stokeley, William Mosseley, William Chapman, William Mansell, and Edward Mortimer; -- Also a piece of Meadow Ground lying at Desford, called and known by the name of King's Meadow, and Lett at Nine Pounds per Annum.
N.B. The above Premisses are to be Sold between the Hours of Six and Eight in the Evening, according to Conditions as shall then be produced.
For further Particulars enquire of John Pocklington, in Leicester.
To Cover this SEASON,
At William Adking's at Ailstone, 2 Miles from Leicester, at One Guinea a Mare and One Shilling the Servant;
The CHESNUT HORSE WAG,
BEING a very strong and beautiful HORSE, very healthy, and free from all natural Blemish or Ailment. WAG was got by Mr. Panton's famous Old Crab, out of a Daughter of the Duke of Devonshire's Flying-Childers, his Dam was got by Cyprus, his Grand-Dam by Old Commoner, his great Grand-Dam by Old Makeless, which Mare was the Dam of Desdemona, her great great Grand-Dam by Brimmer, her great great great Grand-Dam by a Son of Dodsworth, out a Burton Barb Mare.
N.B. Wag is a full Brother of Tawney, who went 19 Miles within the Hour, in the Chaise-Match over Newmarket Heath.
*** Good Grass for Mares at 2s. 6d per Week, and great Care will be taken of them; the Money to be paid at the Time of Covering, or when the Mares are taken away.
To be SOLD,
To the best BIDDER :
At the House of Elizabeth Ashpinshaw, being the Sign of the White-Horse in Ashby-de-la-zouch, in the County of Leicester, on Friday the 25th day of this inst. April, between the Hours of 1 and 6, according to Conditions of Sale then produced :
A Freehold Cottage or Tenement, and about three Acres of Land thereto adjoining, and belonging, situate at a place called Peggs-Green, in the Liberty of Thringston in Leicestershire; Also 14 Dwelling-Houses, with Gardens and Crofts thereto belonging, inclosed from the Waste, situate at Peggs-Green aforesaid, containing together about 35 Acres, with a right of digging, searching, and getting Coal under the same.
For further particulars enquire of Mr. Pestell, Attorney at Law in Ashby-de-la-zouch, aforesaid.
N.B. The best or Nether Coal lies whole under all the said Premisses, which are well situated for Sale of such Coal.