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Some Selected Reports from The Windsor and Eton Express

6th October 1827

Windsor and Eton

Monday last being the day appointed by charter, the ceremony of swearing in the Mayor of Windsor and other officers of the Corporation took place. The Corporation having previously assembled at the Town Hall, attended divine service at the Parish Church, where a most excellent sermon was preached by the Rev.I. Gosset, their chaplain. Upon their return to the Hall, John Voules, Esq., was sworn into office as Justice of the Peace for the ensuing year, and Thomas Jenner, Esq., having taken the oaths as Mayor, was invested by his predecessor with the gold chain. Mr.Layton, jun., and Mr.W.J.Voules were sworn in Bailiffs; Mr.Egelstone was re-elected Chamberlain of the Corporation, and Mr.Secker, jun., Chamberlain of the Poor. At six o'clock a sumptuous dinner consisting of turtle, venison, game, and every other delicacy, was provided at the Town Hall, for a highly respectable company, amounting to nearly a hundred. The healths of the royal family were drunk with great applause. On the healths of the Members of the Borough being drunk, they returned thanks in suitable addresses. The company kept up with great spirit the conviviality of the evening til a late hour.

On Tuesday last, Sir Richard Hussey Vivian inspected the 2d regiment of Life Guards in barracks , and expressed his gratification at the superior appearance of that noble corps. Sir Hussey was afterwards entertained with a grand dinner from Colonel Lygon and the officers of his regiment.

We regret that alarming depredations still continue to be committed in the neighbourhood; and every fresh crime leaves the offender as far beyond discovery as the last. We last week advertised that two horses were missing, and the slaying and taking away a sheep. This week a sow had been stolen from Winkfield, and, from hand bills; we perceive that a sheep has been stolen from Earl Harcourt's at St Leonard's . We trust that those engaged in such daring traffic, will meet with the reward due to themselves and to society at large.

On Monday last, W.Quelch, Esq., was sworn in Mayor of Reading.

Aylesbury

On Thursday, Henry Wise, a bargeman, was brought to Aylesbury gaol, having been committed by Mr.Neale and the Rev.Mr.Bradford, on a charge of stealing a fishing net, value �6., the property of Mr.Lovegrove, of Maidenhead Bridge. When apprehended, he was on board his barge, and made considerable resistance; he stuck a constable who was getting into the barge so violent a blow on the head with a stick, that it knocked him back into the punt with which he and others had got to the barge.

A few weeks since, as some workmen were repairing the ceiling of the church at Slapton, Mr.James Sanders, the mason, and Mr.Richard Turney, churchwarden, got on the scaffold to inspect the work, and as they were giving directions respecting it, the planks and scaffold gave way. By the fall the ancle of Mr.Sanders was fractured, and Mr.Turney , who fell across the pews, sustained some severe internal bruises; these at first were not thought dangerous; however he continued getting worse, and at length an inflammation took place, and he died on Monday last, leaving a family of eight children.

Mr.Thos Budd, of Buffler's Holt, near Buckingham, when returning on Wednesday night from Brackley market, was attempted to be stopped by three footpads within a short distance of his own residence. Mr.Budd was accompanied from Brackley by Mr.Coles, of Adstock, who had alighted a few minutes previous to alter his stirrup leathers; and when two men rushed out and struck Mr.Budd's horse, he, knowing his friend was near at hand, instantly attacked them with his whip, and being assisted by Mr.Coles, they succeeded in beating them off; the fellows then began to throw stones at them. Two men had been at the Holt just before, when Mrs.Budd remarked "that they appeared to be ill-looking characters," and felt rather uneasy at seeing them going towards Brackley. It is reported that one is in custody at Brackley.

On Wednesday last, the Worshipful Mayor of High Wycombe, gave s splendid dinner to the Aldermen, Bailiffs, and Burgesses of the borough, at the Red Lion Inn. The Wycombe amateur band was in attendance, and played many delightful airs in a style which excited the admiration of the company. Mr.Reichenberg, one of the leaders of the concerts at Bath, very handsomely volunteered his services on the occasion, and performed various concerto's on the violin with his usual delicacy of taste and superiority of execution; in the course of the evening he sang his favourite Cossack song with fine effect. Conviviality prevailed until a late hour.