ti Marriages and Deaths in and near London. [Aug. f, 



HifcufTes the date of the building, which he tion was, to prevent the deftruflion of chr 



fappofes coeval with the firft Abbey, the magazine; and, the fecond to fave a Urjje 



viorlt of Edward the Confeflor. The peculiar ftore of clothing, containing fuits for 8000 



purpofe of it wjs to be the Afylum, or men, both of which were not more tliaa 



Sanfluary, of thofe that flfd to the cathedral thirty paces diftant from tlic buildings on- 



for fafety. Some parts of the building were, fire. )'y the indefatigable exertions of the 



however, of a later date. Dr. Stukeley, artillerymen, both thefe objeifts were happily 



fpeaking of tlie deftruftion of it in 1750, accomplilhed. The buildings conlumed, 



fays, " They were a long time in demolifli- were lituated behind the moat; though they 



i^ it with great labour ;>nd expente. It were abuut 1 70 tett in leni;th, and two 



confilted moitly of rag ftone from SulTex, ftories high, not a vefti^e of tliem was left 



the mortar of the fame burnt into lime. No by the dcitruitive elemeju. They wiie full 



rock could be harder. And lometimes they of whit is called dead ammunition, I'uch as 



attempted to Wow up part of it with gun- grape and canifter (hot in boxes, the number 



powder. The door of the lower church, or of which, is luppofed to have amounted to 



principal entrance of the fabric, was covered half a million. It was not till near four 



with plates of iion, 1 fuppolc to fecu'.e it o'clock the following morning, that the con- 



from fire and the violence of fuch as woald flagratio,'. was fo far extinguiihed, as to place 



attempt to carry off any perfon, who fted the mrfgJziMe out of danger. No lives were 



hither for fanfluary. The efplanade at top lol^, and only a few trifling accidents hap- 



was paved with flat (tones, when we viewed pened. As there was reafon to fuppofe 'that 



it; and had many tenements built upon it, this coi.fl.igration was not the efftii of acci- 



which no doubt yielded gond rents from the dent, government immediately took aflive 



unhapjiy perfons remaining tliere for life,"— meafures for the difcovery nf the incendiary. 



John Stow fays of the place, «' The privi- MARRIED. 



Ivgeof Sanftuary ivas tirft granted by Scbcrt, At St. Bride's, b-y the Rev. Mr. Pridden, 



King of the Ea(^ Saxons, fince incrcafed by John Bowyej: Nichols, efq; of Red Lion 



Edgar, King of the Weft Saxons, renewed and Palfage, FIcet-ftrcet, to Mils Baker, daugh- 



contirmed by Edward the Confeil'or." ter of John B. ef.|. of Cambcrwell, Surrey. 



The following is a (Utcment of the quan- At St. Thon)as's, Southwark, Dr. Kidd, 



tity of porter and table beer brewed in Lon- of Oxford, to Mifs 1. Savery, daughter of 



don, by the fin! twelve houf;s in each line, the Rev. Mr. S. 



from the 5th July, 1804, lo the 5th July, At illington, T. Whitehurft, efq. to the 



18:5. only daughter of W..Hutchins, efq.. of Higlv 



PORTER. Barrels. bury place. 



Barcl.'.y and Peikins 151,500 Capt. R. D. Oliver, of the navy, to Mifs 



Mcux, Read and Co 136,700 Saxton, daughter of Sir Charles S. bart. comp- 



Truman. Hanbury and Co. . . . 126,400 troUer of the navy. 



Whitbread and Co 103,603 At Hackney, the^ Rev. H. H. Norris, to- 



Shum, Combe and Co 8,,7oo Mifs H.C. I'owell, third daughter of D.P. efq, 



T. Calvert and Co . T'l.ioo At St. George's, Hanover-fcjuare, R. 



Goodwyn and Co 71,100 Eaton, jun- efq. of Stetch worth Houfe, Cani- 



J. Calveit and Co 46,203 bridgelh^e, to Mifs Jeft'erfon, only daughter 



Elliott and Co 46,100 of the late Rev. Mr. J. of King's Langley, 



CoxandCo 34,200 Herts. — Wm. Rulfell, elq. to Mifs Sophia 



Clowes and Co 34,200 Ruflel!, daughter of Charles R. efq. of 



Riley and Co 32,000 Einfield Houfe, Berks. — T. S. Horner, efq. 



TABLE BEER. of Mells Park, Somerfct, coloati - coni- 



Kirkman 2a-,6()7 mandant of the Frome and Eaft Mendip 



Charrington 22,505 cavaUy, to Mifs Hippefiey, eldelt daughter of 



Edmonds 18,712 Sir J.C Hippelley, bart. 



Sandford I5)<)99 ^. Wilcox, elq. of Camt!en-(lrect, Ifling- 



Poullain . 15,92^ ton, to Mifs Gore, daughter of the late Cap- 

 Cape Il,9'";3 tain .'Vrthur G. of the NhO^ju Eall: invliaman. 



Satchell Il,343 John Willeit V/illett, efq. of Merlcy 



Sandall 9>9'.5 Houfe, Dorfet(hire, M. P. for New Romnty, 



Cowell 8,7z6 to Mifs Wilfon, of Wimpole-ltreet. 



Park ^,68(5 At Edmonton, the Rov. John Skinner,. 



Hoft'mann 8,005 rcflor of Camerton, near Bath, to Mifs 



Smith 7,954 Holmes,, daughter of Jofeph H. efq. 



On the night of June 30th. a fire was ilif- DIED. 



covered in a large range of wooden iilue ftore- At Newbury, Berk', liirs. Fry, vi'ife o£ 



iioufes, in the royal arfenal at Woolwich, Mi. Ed.-flund Fry, letter founder, t ype-ftreet. 



not fat diftant from the magazine. 'I'he At his lodijings in Great Ruffel Street, 



royal artillery were inftantly turne>i out, but Coven-t Garden, Roger Bhiinl , efj. 95. 



ic was found Im^oTil-le to lave any part of At Maze Hill, Greenwich, K. Bi athwaitc, 



the buildiivg on fiu, or of another of the (fp Admiral of the Wnite, 79. 



faaie defctiDtion uiui k X^* £"' tWiliJCM- ' Al Hadley, Al--f, E. Gdn.w^ elisft daugh- 



