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24th March 1827



Sun Inn , Maidenhead

W.Piggott with a sense of gratitude for the numerous obligations which his friends and the families have been pleased to confer upon him, returns his warmest acknowledgements for the constant patronage he has been honoured with, and begs to commend to their future notice Mr.Richard Tagg whom he trusts, by an assiduous attention to business, will merit their countenance and support.

R.Tagg respectfully acquaints the nobility , gentry , and public generally, he has take to the above concern, recently carried on by Mr.Piggott, and most earnestly solicits a continuance of their favours, which it will ever be his study to deserve, by an unremitting attention to business, and by conducting it on a similar principle to that of his predecessor; and he pledges himself that no exertion shall be spared to render the accommodation equally comfortable, in the hope to secure their future patronage and support.

N.B.Mr.Piggott's accounts will be paid and received on the premises as heretofore.
Sun Inn, Maidenhead, March 25, 1827.




Farnham Royal Inclosure

Notice is hereby given, that the next Meeting of the Commissioner, named in and appointed by the Act of Parliament for inclosing lands in the parish of Farnham Royal, in the county of Buckingham, will be held at the Windmill Inn, at Salthill, in the said County, on Monday the 2d day of April next, at Eleven o'clock in the Forenoon; at which Meeting the proprietors of Estates of the said parish, who have not paid their proportions of the rate made for defraying the expenses of the said inclosure, are requested to pay the same.

By order of the Commissioner,
Windsor, 23d March, 1827
W.Long., Clerk.




Winchester Measure

Notice is given that a Petition will lay for signature at the Castle Inn, Windsor, on Saturday, the 31st of March, to petition the legislature to repeal the Imperial Measure and adopt the Winchester, the Chancellor of the Exchequer having declared that the averages by which corn imported will be taken by the Winchester measure, and the loss sustained by the farmer, is very serious, the labouring classes thereby being most seriously injured.




Astronomical Lecture by Mr.Bird, at the Town Hall, Windsor.

By permission of the Mayor, and by desire of the worshipful Master and Brethren of St.John's Lodge of free and accepted Masons. On Friday, March 30, Mr.Bird will introduce the whole of his grand Astronomical Machinery.

Every accommodation for Schools and Families.
The Lecture is commence at half-past Seven o'clock.
Admission 3s.




The Committee of the Windsor Association, for the prosecution of Felons and protection of Property, recommend to the Subscribers to Meet at the Castle Inn, on Wednesday next, the 28th March, by Seven in the Evening, to transact the business of the Association.




National Schools
of
Windsor and its Neighbourhood

The Subscribers and Friends of this Institution are respectfully informed, that the Rewards arising from the Endowment of the Rev.G.Champagne, will be distributed at the Schools, on Thursday, the 29th inst., at Twelve o'clock, when their attendance is requested. It is also particularly desired that the Parents of the Children be present.

C.Knight, Treasurer, Committee Room, March 14, 1827.




Windsor and Eton

Captain Charles Inglis's beautiful miniature man-of-war vessel, the Victorine - the gem in all our aquatic picturesque amusements - is to be removed to Virginia Water, for the service of our gracious Sovereign : Lieut.Inglis (son of Captain Inglis) takes her in charge at Deptford (Hampshire Telegraph)

Mr.Bird, it will be seen, intends to appear again before the public at the Town Hall, to deliver a lecture upon the science of Astronomy. He demonstrates this his favourite study in so clear and satisfactory a manner, that we little doubt he will meet with every encouragement.

The King has been pleased to grant G.E.Graham, Esq., M.P., for Kinross, and Mary, his wife, niece to the late Dr.W.Foster Pigott, fellow of Eton College, &c., that they may, in compliance with a condition in a deed of settlement made by Dr.Pigott, take the surnames of Foster Pigott, in addition to and after that of Graham.




At the annual cucumber show at Battersea, on Wednesday last, the first prize was awarded to Mr.Lovegrove, of Windsor, the fineness of whose fruit excited general surprise. The whole of the production, indeed, considering the early period of the season, did great credit to the growers.




On Thursday morning last, a reprieve arrived at Oxford for Thomas Billing, and Joseph and John Price, who were, at the last assizes, found guilty of burglary at Islip, and had sentence of death passed on them. Webb, the horse-dealer, will undergo the dreadful sentence of the law on Monday morning next. He is extremely penitent, and behaves in a manner every way becoming of his unhappy situation.




On Sunday last, between three and four o'clock in the afternoon, a homestall at Woodbury, near Everton, Beds, in the occupation of Mr.Bird, was discovered to be on fire, and all the building, with the exception of the dwelling house, were destroyed. A servant, with great presence of mind, saved the horses by rushing into the stable and letting them loose. Mr.Bird was at church at the time, and his wife in bed, having been recently confined. The fire is supposed to have been maliciously occasioned by a tramp, who had applied to the house for charity.




Aylesbury

On Tuesday a detachment of the 67th Regiment of Foot halted at Aylesbury on their route to Weedon barracks; a second detachment arrived in the town on Wednesday

. The Second Regiment of Bucks Yeomanry have received instructions to learn the new sword exercise prior to their assembling for the usual period in the present year.




Among the records of the follies and woes with which the columns of a newspaper are for the most part filled, it is pleasing sometimes to meet with a paragraph which shows that there is something valuable mixed with the baser metal of which human nature is composed. Such is the following fact, which, although the parties are in humble life, deserves to be mentioned, being equally creditable to all concerned in it; it evinces a grateful feeling in one, and offers an unequivocal testimony of the kind behaviour of the other towards his neighbours and workmen :- In December last, Mr.Page, a farmer at Winchendon, was on the eve of quitting one of the farms of which he was then occupier; but prior to his removal he was anxious that about one hundred poles of wood which he had purchased should be cut down. It became known among the labourers of Winchendon that such was the wish of Mr.Page, and a number of them waited upon him to offer their gratuitous services to cut it down, and to do with it whatever he wished. Mr.Page thanked them for their offer but declined it; and caused the wood to be cut by persons hired for the purpose. These poor people, however, were determined to show their sense of Mr.Page's conduct towards them (many of them having worked for him), on some other opportunity. Last week this opportunity offered. A piece of land of seven acres, occupied by Mr.Page was to be planted with beans. Seven teams belonging to the neighbouring farmers were at once sent in to plough the land; and as soon as that operation was completed, a number of labourers, having procured beans, set themselves to work to plant them. The whole was done without any reference to the occupier, to whom the act gave a pleasure which may be easily conceived. He did what he could to testify the satisfaction he felt, both by words and deeds; he returned his thanks in plain but sincere language to all had been employed in the field, and regaled them with the best home brewed ale his cellar would afford.




A young man of the name of Atkins, drowned himself at Buckingham last week. He was somewhat deranged, and it appears that he jumped from his bed in the night suddenly, and ran, in his shirt only, from his house to the canal, at some distance, where he committed the act. It is remarkable that Mr.Robert North, jun., in whose father's house the deceased lived, dreamt of the circumstance on the same night, and absolutely pointed out the place where the body was in consequence found.




During a severe fox chase with Sir Thos.Mostyn's hounds this season, Mr. C-----, the army agent, attempting to leap a brook, his horse unfortunately fell and precipitated the rider into the water. A gentleman at some distance who saw the accident, inquired of a brother sportsman who had fallen ? "O, only the Agent to the Cold stream," was the reply.

During the high winds, a large four bay barn was blown down, in the farm yard of Mr.Doggett, at Leighton Buzzard.