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Some Selected Reports from The Windsor and Eton Express
27th January 1827
Mr.Mason
(From London)
Professor of Dancing
Has the honour to announce to the Nobility, Ladies, and Gentlemen of Windsor, Eton, and their vicinities, that he has re-commenced his professional duties, and will be happy to attend Pupils at their own Residence, or at Schools, to give Lessons in the most fashionable styles of Dancing.
Mr.Mason respectfully states, that he is the son of the late Mr.Joseph Mason, who had the honour of being the Professor of Dancing to the Royal Family, under the patronage of his late Majesty.
Terms may be known, and arrangements for attendance made, on application at Messrs. Knight and Brown's Library, Castle-street; Mr.Perryman's opposite the Town Hall, High-street, Windsor; and at No.87, High-street, Eton.
Miss Clack
(From London)
Milliner, Fancy Dress Maker, &c.,
Takes this opportunity of returning her grateful thanks to the Ladies of Windsor, Eton, and their vicinities, for the many favours she has received since her commencement in the above business, and to inform them that she had Removed to 74 Peascod-Street, where it will ever be her study to produce every novelty agreeable which may transpire in London and Paris.
A young Lady Wanted as an Indoor Apprentice; every care will be taken of her health and comfort.- Also, an Outdoor Apprentice wanted.
Windsor And Eton.
A general Meeting of the Inhabitants of Windsor was held at the Town-Hall, on Monday last, to consider of an address of condolence to his Majesty, on the occasion of the lamented death of his Royal Highness the Duke of York. John Voules Esq., the Mayor, having been called to the Chair, stated that he summoned this meeting in compliance with a Requisition signed by many respectable inhabitants. The object for which they were then assembled was so universally felt to be a public duty, that any arguments for its performance were quite unnecessary on his part. He trusted that some gentlemen was prepared with a suitable address.
The Rev.I.Gosset, Vicar, rose to move that an address of condolence be presented to his Majesty on this melancholy occasion. He dwelt, at some length, on the high merits of his late Royal Highness, in the important office of Commander in Chief - on the impartial manner in which he excised the Patronage of that station - on his attention to the common soldiers - on his general Benevolence - and on his unvarying kindness and urbanity to all who had the honour of approaching him. When such an illustrious character fell by the hand of death, there was a cause for universal sorrow; - and every one would be anxious to pay tribute to the memory of departed worth and greatness. If the public generally thus felt their loss, how much more severe to our illustrious Sovereign must be the loss of such a kind and affectionate Brother. It was the perculiar duty, therefore, of the inhabitants of Windsor, knowing as they did from experience the warm and feeling heart of their gracious King to present to him their humble but sincere expressions of heartfelt condolence. He therefore moved that an Address, expressive of their sentiments, be presented to his Majesty.
Charles Hayes, Esq., seconded the motion.
The Rev.I.Gosset, at the request of the meeting, read the following address, which he had prepared at the desire of the gentlemen who had signed the requisition :-
To the King's Most Excellent MAJESTY.
The humble Address of the Mayor, Vicar, Churchwardens, and other Inhabitants of the ancient Borough of New Windsor, in the County of Berks.
Most Gracious Sovereign,
We, your Majesty's dutiful and loyal subjects, presume to offer to your Majesty the humble and sincere expression of our sorrow on the occasion of the domestic and public loss which your Majesty and the nation have sustained. Under the heavy and afflicting dispensation of Providence, which has severed the most unreserved and exemplary fraternal affection, it is our prayer that your Majesty may receive heavenly consolation. We ourselves, by the same event suffering a national calamity, mourn deeply the loss of an illustrious Prince, near the Throne, and dear to the people - whose unceasing energy and impartial administration have so long happily directed the military force of the Empire, and contributed so eminently to its glory and it power. We feelingly lament the loss of a Prince, who was ever the patron of the deserving, the advocate of the distressed, the friend of the friendless, and whose general and active benevolence was adorned and endeared by universal gentleness and condescension.
Your Majesty, seeking for support under this affliction in the principles and hopes of religion, will not fail to derive from other sources reflections of a peaceful and consoling nature, and even from that unaffected sympathy of every class of your subjects with the sorrow of their Sovereign, which springs from a devoted regard to your Majesty's person, as well as from feelings of admiration and regret. And now when we venture to offer the humble expression of our heartfelt sorrow and faithful attachment, we feel assured that your Majesty will receive with gracious kindness and mournful satisfaction the willing tribute of our affectionate grief and respect.
The address was cordially approved , and unanimously agreed to. The thanks of the meeting were voted to the Rev.I.Gosset, and to the Mayor. The address remained in the Town Hall for signature during Tuesday and Wednesday, and was most numerously and respectably subscribed. It was then transmitted to the Secretary of State for the Home Department.
On Monday last, at a Common Council of the Corporation of New Windsor, the following Address of Condolence to his Majesty was agreed to :-
To the King's Most Excellent MAJESTY.
The humble Address of the Mayor, Alderman, Bailiffs, Burgesses, Recorder, and Town Clerk of the Borough of New Windsor, in the County of Berks.
May it please your Majesty,
We, your Majesty's dutiful and loyal subjects, the Mayor, Alderman, Bailiffs, Burgesses, Recorder, and Town Clerk of the ancient Borough of New Windsor, most respectfully beg to approach your Majesty with our heartfelt expressions of condolence on the universally lamented decease of your Majesty's illustrious Brother, his Royal Highness the Duke of York and Albany. The severe loss which your Majesty and the members of your Royal Family so deeply deplore, and which the people of your Majesty's dominions justly regard as a great national calamity, is felt by us with perculiar force. His Royal Highness, as High Steward of this ancient Corporation, condescended to take an especial interest in the prosperity, and rendered his support to the charitable institutions, of the Borough of Windsor; and we therefore grieve , not only with your Majesty's subjects in general for the decease of a Prince so beloved for his public and private virtues, but we feel that we, in particular, have lost a zealous patron and benefactor, who partaking your Majesty's solicitude for the universal prosperity of these realms, united also with your Majesty in bestowing a fostering regard upon the residence of your Royal ancestors, and upon the individuals who have the happiness to dwell around this favoured seat of your Majesty and your illustrious family.
We beg to assure your Majesty that we sympathize most deeply in the great calamity which has befallen your Majesty and the nation;- but we look for consolation to that Divine Power who gives and takes away. Amongst the feelings which filled our hearts on the late mournful occasion, when your Majesty permitted us to pay the last sad tribute of respect to the memory of your illustrious brother, our humble prayers were offered to the great bestower of all good, for the continued prosperity of your Majesty's reign, and that you Majesty may be long preserved to receive the homage and gratitude of your admiring and affectionate people.
Given under the Common Seal of the said Borough, at the Guildhall in the said Borough, this 22d day of January, in the year of our Lord 1827.
It is truly gratifying to observe how generally and cordially all ranks of his Majesty's subjects, and especially all religious denominations, have united to testify their high esteem for the public character of his late lamented Royal Highness the Duke of York. On Sunday evening, the Rev.A.Redford, of High-street chapel, Windsor, preached a sermon on the mournful occasion from the second book of Samuel, chap iii v.38:- And the King said unto his servants, Know ye not that there is a prince and a great man fallen this day in Israel ? - The discourse was particularly appropriate, and preacher dwelt with great force on the admirable public character of his late Royal Highness, and on the duty of his Majesty's subjects to testify their sympathy on this painful occasion, showing their firm and unalterable adherence to the protestant religion as founded on the Word of God and interwoven with the constitution of the country.
On Wednesday last the annual meetings of those admirable institutions, the Dispensary and the National Schools, were held in the Town-hall. We beg to offer our readers to the Reports of the present state of these truly useful charities.
On Sunday last a funeral anthem was sung at the parish church, New Windsor, by the gentlemen of the choir of St.George's Chapel. Mr.Horne presided at the organ:- the anthem was selected from Handel; a solo was performed by Mr.Hobbs, jun., and a quartet by Master Cobbett and Messrs. Jarman, French, and Hobbs; - the execution of the whole was admirable.
The following paragraph has appeared in some of the London papers:-
A dispute, we understand, has arisen between the executors of his Royal Highness the late Duke of York and the Dean and Chapter of Windsor, which is likely to furnish employment for the gentlemen of the long robe. The subject matter is the Field Marshal's Baton (the original was presented to his Royal Highness by his Majesty), which, during the ceremonial of the obsequres, was placed on the Royal Coffin. This, at the conclusion of the funeral, was claimed by the latter party, as a perquisite, and surrendered into their hands (we believe under protest), by Sir G.Naylor, the Garter King at Arms.
We are enabled to affirm, and we do so with great satisfaction, that the circumstances which appear to have given rise to the above paragraph, are wholly mis-stated. After the funeral, the Dean of Windsor, as was his duty, descended into the Royal Vault. Sir George Naylor was there, and the Dean, observing this gentleman employed in removing the velvet from the Baton, respectfully stated that it was usual to leave in the Chapel all appendages to the funeral ceremonies. The Dean considered that the Baton was, like the Coronet, made up for the occasion. Sir George Naylor immediately pointed out that the real Baton of his late Royal Highness had been used, having a velvet covering to protect it from injury; the Dean instantly withdrew his objection. It is to be deplored that unauthorised reports of a serious difference should have arisen from this brief conversation.
In the workhouse at Burnham, Bucks, there are now living eighteen persons, the aggregate of whose ages amount to 1313 years; of this number there are nine whose ages make the sum of 709 years.
There are four persons now residing in the almshouses at Chesham , Bucks, whose united ages amount to 360 years.
Aylesbury
At Aylesbury, on Saturday night, a minute bell was tolled from the hours of eleven to twelve. The pulpit and reading desk of the church were on Sunday hung with black.
At Buckingham, immediately on the arrival of the news of the death of his late Royal Highness the Duke of York, a general feeling of regret spread itself through the town, and the great bell was tolled minute time for an hour between the morning and afternoon services. On the Sunday following , the pulpit and desk of the church were handsomely hung with black cloth. On the day of the funeral the bell again tolled minute time from eleven till two in the day, and from six till eight in the evening; and last Sunday, the day after the funeral of his Royal Highness, a sermon was preached on the occasion by the Rev.Mr.Silvester, from Revelations, chap xiv verse 13. The Rev. gentleman, in speaking of the deceased illustrious personage, and from the great advantages which the country had derived from his able discharge of the duties of Commander-in-Chief, observed, that it was not on this account only that he claimed the gratitude of the country, though he had redressed the grievances of the lowest as well as the highest in rank, and rewarded merit where merit was to be found - he deserved it still more because he had conferred a lasting benefit by the religious and moral improvement which he had made in the character of the soldier: dissipation was no longer the characteristic of the Army; vice was now as much discountenanced in that profession as in any other; and he had thus perhaps saved the souls of thousands, and brought down a blessing upon the country. Alluding to His Royal Highness's sentiments respecting Catholic emancipation, he said that he had proved he was a Protestant from principle, fearlessly avowing his opinions and declaring his determination to defend them to the latest hour of his life, at a time when a man of less courage would have been intimidated by the certainty of bringing upon his the resentment of many. This he had done from a conviction that a religion, which professes to keep people in ignorance, and persuades them to believe that every vice may be atoned for by penance, and every crime be absolved by a priest, must have a tendency to demoralise the country and destroy all confidence among men, being also directly contrary to the commands of God, and in direct hostility to our Protestant Government. He concluded by exhorting his hearers to imitate his Royal Highness in labouring to be useful in their generation, and by reminding them that death must happen to all - that Princes like Peasants must bow to his all conquering arm.
At Hemel Hempsted, on Saturday, the shops were all closed
At the Petty Sessions held at Aylesbury, last Saturday, a complaint was made to the Magistrates by Alice Hyde, a widow woman of Haddenham, of a violent and indecent assault which she had sustained from Matthew Wall, of Kingsey, against whom a warrant was granted. The facts in this case, as stated by the complainant are withheld from a sense of justice to the person accused, until they can be given with Wall's defence - Mr.Welford, a carrier, of Haddenham, was also charged by Wm.Ray, a labouring man of that same village, with an assault; it appearing, however, that Ray had used insulting language to Mr.Welford, the parties were desired to retire and settle their differences, which they did. - The Magistrates present were the Rev.Sir Geo.Lee and the Rev.Mr.Lockhart.
On Wednesday last, three men were committed to Oxford gaol, by J.Fane, Esq., charged with stealing six flitches of bacon at Lewkner.
Several persons have met with severe falls during the late frosty weather, in consequence of a number of young urchins making slides on the pavements. An easy method to prevent this practice is for each inhabitant to strew on the pavement in front of his house sawdust, ashes, or sand.
On Tuesday night, a grand ball and supper was given by Phillip Thomas Wykham, Esq., at Tyford House, Kingsey, to a numerous party of nobility and gentry. Among the company were Lord Marsham, Sir A.Cooke, Sir S.B.Moreland, Miss Mykham, W.H.Ashhurst and J.Fane, Esqrs., the Members for Oxfordshire; E.Webb, Esq., M.P. for Gloucester; T.B.Tyler, Esq., M.P. for Coventry; Capt.Hall of the Life Guards; W.Loundes, jun. Esq.; Mrs.Cotterill; Mrs and Misses Blackstones; Mrs.Ansley; Rev.Mr.Kipling; Mr.Hughes, &c, &c. The company began to arrive about nine o'clock, and continued to be set down until eleven. Dancing commenced about ten o'clock, and was varied by waltzes, quadrilles, and country dances, until one, when the visitors retired to rooms elegantly fitted up, and partook of a supper, consisting of every luxury which could be procured. Dancing was then resumed and kept up with much spirit , and the whole of the company had not separated until six in the morning.
Three men were committed to Oxford gaol, on Monday last, (whose names we have not learnt) for stealing a sheep, the property of Mr.Batten, of Thame. Whilst Mr.Batten was assisting a constable to take these fellows to gaol on Monday evening, another of his sheep was stolen, it is supposed, by a gang with whom the prisoners are connected.
On the 14th instant, an inquisition was taken at Beeston[?] Cross, before Mr.Times, coroner for the county of Bedford, on view of the body of William Francis. It appeared in evidence that the deceased on the preceeding evening had been sitting in the public house drinking rum and brandy, but not in any immoderate quantity. However, he was perceived to fall suddenly from his chair to the ground. He was immediately carried home and put to bed, but died about four o'clock in the morning. The deceased had been for a long time subject to fits. Verdict - Died by the visitation of God.
On Thursday last an inquisition was taken at Bedford, before Charles Short, Mayor and Coroner for the town, on view of the body of Ann Wyker[?], a little girl aged five years, who, on the preceding Monday, was severely burnt by her clothes taking fire, She was taken to the ...., but died in the evening of the following day. Verdict - Accidental death.
Married
On Tuesday, the 23d instant, at St.Mary's, Islington, Wm.Hickman, Esq., of Newington Green, second son of the late Mr.Hickman, surgeon, Aylesbury, to Ann, fourth daughter of the late Thos.Garrat, Esq., of Newington.
Died
On Saturday week, at Aston Clinton, Mrs.Creed, relict of he late Thomas Creed, many years a most respectable auctioneer at Chesham, Bucks.
On the 17th instant, at Egham, Mrs.Martha Millbourn, aged 72.
On Thursday inst, in the 52d year of his age, Mr.William Collier, many years labourer in trust[?] under the Board of Works at Windsor Castle, leaving a widow and nine children to lament his loss.
At Lovel hill cottage, Berks, in the 50th year of his age, J.Cumming, Esq., F.S.A., late of the Board of Commissioners for the affairs of India.