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HEREFORDSHIRE. 



The following infcription has been fct up in 

 Stoke Edith Church to the memory of the 

 "]ateHon Mrs. Foley, on the monument that 

 was a fhort tirnc lince erefted to the Hon. Eii- 

 warJ Foley : — " Sacred alfo to the memory of 

 the Hon. Eliza Maria Foley. She was a wo- 

 man of excellent underttanding, which was 

 difplayed in aiSive dilcretion, firmnefs of 

 mind, and Cliriftian piety, capable and defi- 

 rous of compenfating to her children the lofs 

 of one affedlionate parent in the comprc hen- 

 five care and ability of the I'urvlvor ; a lilef. 

 ling wl'iich Divine Providence Teemed to have 

 rc-fervcd to them, but was plealed, after a 

 Aort fcafon, to withdraw. She died the 9th 

 July, loO.i, aged 46 years, leaving to her 

 elder ofl'spring, mourning for their lofs, a 

 deep imprefiion of her inftrudiions j and to 

 the young, as unconfcinus of it, the moni- 

 tory tradition of her virtues." 



Married ] At Hereford, the Rev. Dr. 

 Morgan, a canon rcfidentiary, to Mifs Un- 

 derwood, daugiiter of the Rev. Mr. U. 



Died.] At Hereford, Mr. Peckham, of the 

 Red Lion Inn. — Mrs. Povvltciiey, relift of 

 Mr. P., grocer, yo. — Mrs. Parker, mother 

 of Mr. P., builder, 9t. 



At Manfel Lacy, Mr. Eiiftone. 



At Leominfter, Mr. T. Ford, 96. — Mr. 

 Potter, (il. 



At Bodenliam, Mrs. Mary Pearce, relitlof 

 Mr P., furgcon, late of Rols. 



At Eardifland, Mr. James Penny, 4'-'. 



GLOUCESTEPSHIRE. 



The workmen employed in digginff the 

 foundation for the new Blue Coat Hofpital at 

 Gloiicerter (intended to be eretted, upon an 

 elegant and extenfive plan, on the fite of the 

 ancient building in Eallgate-ftreet,) lately 

 difcovered, about fix feet below the furface of 

 the earth, the remains of a very curious tef- 

 feliated Roman pavement, thirty feet long, 

 arul twenty wide, divided into compartments, 

 enriched with a great variety offcroUs, frets, 

 ;inu other architeftural ornaments, and hav- 

 ing a wreathed or bi-aidcd border. The co- 

 lours are white, red, blulft grey, and pale 

 and dark, brown. The tcjfcra are moftly 

 cubes of dift'erent fizes, trom one lialf to 

 t)u;.e ojuarters of an inch ; fome are triangu- 

 lar, and of various other ihapes. The ce- 

 ment on which the pavement is laid is about 

 an inch thick, and appears to be compofed of 

 f.ind, pounded brick, and lime, forming to- 

 gether a very hard fuhftance. The iiiter- 

 ilices are filled up with cement, fo hard, that 

 it Is even more diliicult to break than the 

 tcjciif themfclves. The white and pale tcj- 

 jcrrA.- appear to be of hard calcareous ftone, 

 and hear a good polilh ; tlie red are of a fine 

 fort of brick ; llie bluilh grey are of a hard 

 argillaceous itonc, found in many parts of 

 Clloucefterlliirc, and called liiiic .')•<» j and the 

 dark brown appeir to be of the granite lound 

 K St. V iucent'i Roek^, near Eriilol. 



Married.'] At Stroud, John Hillhoufk 

 Wilcox, efq., one of the (hcrifts of Briftol, 

 to Mifs Margaret Wathen, daunhier of Sir 

 Samuel W., of Stratford Houfe ; and Ifaac 

 Dighton, efq., of Briftol, to Mifs Anna Ma- 

 ria W. 



At Elmore, Mr. John Aftman, of Moreton 

 Valence, to Mils Guilding, only daughter of 

 Mr. Ed^vard G. 



At Fai-mcot Chapel, the Rev. Thomas 

 Carpenter, to Mifs Fuller, youn^el daugh- 

 ter o( the late Captain William F., of lh« 

 royal navy. 



At Cheltenham, W.Long, efq., of Swill" 

 don, Wilts, to Mifs C rowell. 



At Wollafton, Mr.' S. J. Harris, of GIou- 

 cefter, to Mifs Eleanor Thomas, daughter of 

 the Rev. E. Tliomas, of Curmdu, and reflor 

 of Vcynor, In the county of Brecon. 



Died.] At Cheltenham, Mrs. Sophia 

 Williams, foundrefs of the new fchool at that 

 place, under the patronage of her Majefty, 

 5-t. — J, Bezard, efq., of Buckland, Worcef- 

 terlhire. 



At Walton Houfe, near Tewkfbury, Mrs, 

 Smithfend, rclitt of Nicholas S., efq. 



At Winclicomb, Charles Hayward, efq. 



At Chipping Camden, Mr. James Hows. 



At Bibury, of an apopleftic lit, the Rev. 

 Mr. Davies, reftor of that place. 



OXFOR DSHIRE. 



Married.'] At Oxford, Mr. James Mor- 

 ton, to Mifs Harriet Portlock. — Mr. William 

 Wakelin, of the Crown Inn, to Mifs Barr, 

 daugh.ttr of the late Mr. B., of Hinton. 

 Berks. 



Died.] At Wheatley, Mr. Thomas Da- 

 vies, of the King's Arms. 



At Bicefter, Mr. James Moore, attorney. 

 ~-Mr. Henry Churchill, attorney. 



At Burford, Mr. Waters, father of Mr. 

 W., attorney. 



At Oxford, Mrs. Ann Joy, relift of Mr« 

 Thomas J., 84. — Mrs. Humfreys, 68.— 

 Mrs. Colling-idge, relict of Mr. Henry C, 

 of Godington, 71. 



At North Hinkfey, Mrs. Elizabeth Herny 

 wife of Mr. H., SO. 



At Stadhampton, Mrs. Kerfey, wife of 

 Mr. K., of the Crown Inn, 48. 



HVNTINGDONSIllRr. 



Died.] At Yaxley, having nearly attained 

 the patriarchal age of " .burfcure and ten," 

 Mr. Richard Wefton, who was for almoft half 

 a century mafter of the Irce-lchool, and of a 

 refpedable boarding fcliool in that place. 

 Mr. Wedon was a native of Leicefterfhire, 

 and had his attention diieftcd to mathemati- 

 cal purfuits by hearing a neighbour, (Mr. 

 Abraham Lord, an early contributor to the 

 Gentleman's Diaries,) relate tnc intcrefting 

 liilhory of that excellent mathematician Tho- 

 mas Simpfon, whi> was alio a native of Lci- 

 tefterfhire. Mr. \Vc!Uin, between the age of 

 twenty and thirty, oi t.iiiud an appointmenO 

 as an ofliccr of extife j after which, being 

 lixed at Petcrboroui;li, he lornitd an intimacy 

 S L' l with 



