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G locefre) 'sh ire — Oxfordsh ire. 



[Nov. I, 



At Witby Mifs Mann, daughter of Mr. 

 M., fm-geo:! 



At Kvefliiim, Mrs. Phillips, relift of Wil- 

 liam P., elq., 88. 



GLOCESTERCHIRE. 



Notice has been given ot" Intended applica- 

 tions to Parliament in t'ne enfuing feffion, for 

 afts for making a rail-road, from Cheltenham 

 to Glocefter, and for making another rail- 

 road .rem the river Wye, at or near Lidbrook, 

 to the river f^evern, at or near Lidiiey Hill j 

 alfo a rail-road from the old Fire-cnjinc coal 

 pits, at Miory Stock, to join the main line at 

 AVhite Cro;t in the foiefl of Dean; and ano- 

 ther rai!-road to hranch from the firft men- 

 tioned, at Park End to the Nags' Head coal 

 pits ; which power alfo, from time to time, 

 to m.ikefuch collateral bran.iies of r.iii-ways, 

 to lead from tliC fever.il main or ptin>ipal 

 lines, as may be neceflavy to lead to any coal 

 pit, or Hone quarry, within the vvaile lands 

 of t'lc faid "orert, not exceeding three liundrcd 

 yards in length from fuch main or principal 

 lines j which rail ways are intended to be 

 carried on or through the extra-parochial 

 lands of cht forelt, and in or througli the pa- 

 ri/hes of Ruardean, Nuwland, and Lidr.ey, 

 and tythings of Nafs and Purton, in this 

 county. 



A l.irge oblong Britiflj or Danifli barrow, 

 was opened in the pariili of Duntcfbournc Ab- 

 bots ; in which was foui.d a K'/t-acn or Ciom- 

 L'ch, containing about eight or nine bodies of 

 different ages, many of the bones of which, 

 and the teeth, were entire. The whole 

 lengtli of the barrow, diagonally, v;as about 

 iifty yards ; {Vaight over the ftones about 

 forty i the width about thirty yards ; and 

 the diftance between tlie two great ftones, 

 tvvcnty-four feet. The barrow was compofed 

 of loofe quarry-ftones, laid in ftrata near the 

 great (tones, and brought from a diftance. 

 The largeft ftonc, which has been long known 

 5n tlie country by the name of the Horc-Jlone, 

 5s ol the kind of grey withers, or Stone henge : 

 it is flat on the eatl fide, and round on the 

 f:de which is in the barrow; is twelve feet 

 high from the bafe, and fifteen in circum- 

 ference. The other Itone lies almoft flat on 

 the ground, and is about three yards fquare, 

 and one foot thick. This covers the Kijiraen 

 which contains the bones, and which is divided 

 into two cells, about four feet fquare each, 

 znd fix deep. Thcie -ire feveral other barrows 

 in the neighbourhood; and it is fmgular, 

 that the farm adjoining is called Tack-bar- 

 rows, probably a corruption or ..bbreviation of 

 fonie other name, 'i he bones are re-burie<l ; 

 but the barrow, and the tomb, will be left 

 open fome time longer, for the infpetlion of 

 the curious. 



In removing a tumulus a few days fince, 

 in the parilh of Avening, three remarkable 

 excavations prefented themfelves. The firft 

 -vas a vault nearly fix feet fquare, and five 

 feet and a half in height, containing eight 

 fltsletons, in the moil perfedt ilate, Tlie fe- 



cond is about five feet fquare, containing 

 three fkcletons, but by no means in fuch high 

 prefervation as the firft. T he third is confi- 

 dcrably fnialler, having only one (keleton, to- 

 gether with the bones of fome animals, which, 

 no doubt, were part of the facrifice at the in- 

 terment- This barrow is in the neighbour- 

 hood of feveral others, and about one mile and 

 a quarter from a valley called Woe:"ul Danes' 

 Bottom, where there was an encampment, 

 and perhaps an engagement between the Danes 

 and the Saxons, about tiie time of Alfred the 

 Great. 



Died.'\ At Cheltenham, Dr. Archer. No 

 gen;lenian ftcod higher in the profeflion, or in 

 private life was more relpetted and regarded. 

 He was marrie . 'o Lady Clonbrock, niece to 

 Lord Norbury. Dr. Archer was joint flatc 

 furgeon in Ireland, with Surgeon Hume. 



At DutHey, John Venn, 84, a pauper in 

 the workhoufe belonging to that pariih. He 

 hanged himfclf to the fpan-beara in his bed- 

 chamber. On the inquert it appeared i]i evi- 

 dence that this un'bvtui:ate man v;as one of 

 the fix marines feleited to ihoot Admiral Byng, 

 and had often been heard to fay h'j was fure his 

 ball killed him. The verdift was — Lunacy.— 

 Ifaac Williams, efq., of Llantiiomjs, i\Ion- 

 mouthiliire, one of his majefty's juftices of 

 the peace, 7.'i. 



At Billey, Mr. Peter Gardner, many years 

 a conftable at Stroud. 



At Archer's houfe, William Halliday, fen. 

 efq., 80. 



At Sodbury, Mifs E. Dyke. 



At Stanley's End, Drivi-r Walthen, efq. 



At Gloceftcr, Mrs. Walker, wife pf Mr. 

 W., of the Talbot-inn. 



0,KFOKDSHIRF.. 



Bicd.'] In his \Wi year, Mr. C. Wcnt- 

 worth, youngcft fon of Mrs. W. of the Staff 

 Inn, Oxford. He was a middiipman a- ioar<J 

 his Majefty's /hip Kaifonnable, commanded 

 by Captain Rowley, and was at the taking of 

 the Cape of Good Hope ; and afterwards failed 

 with Sir Home Popham to South America, 

 where he was prefent at our l.it; glorious conr 

 queft of Buenos Ayrcs ; tlie particulars of 

 v.hich he h.id juft tranfmitted to his friends, 

 when by fome accident, a few minutes after 

 he had fent off his letter, he fell overboard 

 and was drowned ; and, to the great grief of 

 his relatives and friends, the fame port brought 

 an account of the melancholy event He 

 was a youth of amiable characfer, of much 

 promile in his prjfeinon, and highly efteemcd 

 and regretted by his officers and ihipmates. 



At O.-.ford, Mr. William Cooke, butler of 

 Magdalen college, which office he held -18 

 years.— Mifs Phebe Pavier, 22.— Mrs. Su- 

 f.innah Baxter, wife of Mr. Richard B.— i 

 Mrs. Broughton, relift of Mr. Edward B. 8-k 

 — Mrs. Cock, 64. — IMr. George Blizzard, 

 graduate of Pembroke college. 



James Jones, efq., of Adwell and Stad- 

 hamptun. 



Ac Thame, Mrs, Fiauces May, a inaiden| 

 lady, 



