1825.]  Staffordshire— Warwickshire —Shropshire—Worcester, &c. 
occupation of Mr. John Messing, of Langham, and 
the parishioners are making a pit, through the spot, 
for stone to repair the roads,—in which the workmen 
have found, at different times, eight complete human 
skeletons, one of which measured considerably more 
than six feet from the skull to the bottom of the leg- 
bone, and at the bottom of the arm-bone lay a ring, 
which is supposed to have been on the finger of the 
deceased. No remains of a coffin of any kind have 
been found. The ring was so much decayed that it 
broke into pieces. They havé likewise found five 
pieces of silver coin, about the size of an old sixpence, 
but are worn very thin. There is an ancient figure 
of some monarch on them, with a Latin inscription 
hardly visible. One figure seems like that of some 
saint. A small copper coin, the size of a farthing, 
has also been dug up; the date is much defaced, but 
seems to be 850, which makes it near a thousand 
years old, and it is therefore supposed to have been 
coined in the reign of Athelwolf, who died in 856.— 
A great deal of melted lead and slate have been found, 
and some small bits of beautiful pavement, &c. The 
hill is dug about half-way through, and it is conjec- 
tured that something still more curious will be dis- 
covered. 
Died.] At Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Elizabeth, wife of 
the Rey. W. Stones—Mary, second daughter of H. 
Walker, gent., of Beaumont-lees. 
STAFFORDSHIRE, 
Married.| At Litchfield, B. Gibbins, esq. of 
Birches-green, near Birmingham, to Eliza Lucy, 
youngest daughter of the late C. Leonard, esq. of 
Hampstead. 
Died.] At Ingestre, the Hon. and Rev. J. Chet- 
wynd Talbot. 
WARWICKSHIRE, 
The rew road from Birmingham.to Pershore, is to 
pass through Edgbaston and Ipsley in Warwickshire, 
and Northfield, King’s Norton, Alvechurch, Bordes- 
ley, Tardebigg, Redditch, Feckenham, Inkherrow, 
Kington, Naunton Beauchamp, Peopleton, Pinvin, 
and Pershore, Worcestershire. 
Died.) 30, R.B. Phillips, esq. of Green-lanes Villa— 
85, J. Downes, esq. of Coventry. 
SHROPSHIRE, 
Married.] At Hales Owen; W. Shelley, esq. of 
Newcastle, to Hannah, daughter of A. Parker, esq. of 
Oldbury—At Edgemond, the Rev. C. Meredith, A.M. 
to Anne, eldest daughter of W. Briscoe, esq. of Cayn- 
ton-house—At Ellesmere, R. Golightly, esq. to Mar- 
garet, third daughter of J. Boydell, esq. of Kilhendre, 
Flintshire—T. Bowdler, esq. of Shrewsbury, to Miss 
Hill, of Ludlow—P. Watler, esq. to Anne, second 
daughter of the late W. Simes, esq. of College-hill, 
near Shrewsbury. 
Died.) At Moor-park, near Ludlow, 50, R. Sal- 
way, esq. He was of a very ancient Norman origin, 
his family being descended from Humphrey de Sal- 
way, of Kunke, Staffordshire, and himself, mater- 
nally, from the Lords Folliot, of Stonehouse. In 
1795, he married Isabella, daughter of J. H. Baugh, 
esq. of Stonehouse, and is succeeded in his estate by 
J. Salway, esq-, his only son. 
At Oswestry, Mary, relict of the late G. Stoakes, 
esq.—73, Mrs. E. Hudson, of Ludlow—Arthur, fourth 
son of the Rey. T. Hodges, A.M. of Ludlow—79, J. 
Wilde, esq. of Harnage, near Shrewsbury—Frances 
Mary, wife of D. Childe, esq. of Brace Meole, near 
Shrewsbury—At Pradoe, 15, Miss Kenyon, the eldest 
daughter of the Hon. T. Kenyon. 
WORCESTER. 
Married.) At Hallow, F, Bannatyne, esq. youngest 
187 
son of the late General Bannatyne, to Emma Eliza- 
beth, only child of the late J. Meecham, esq.—At 
Severn Stoke, J. M‘Cabe, esq. M.D. of Cheltenham, 
to Miss Martin, only daughter of Colonel Martin—At 
Stourport, the Rev. C.Wharton, to Miss M. A. Crane, 
of Wribbenhall—At Spetchley, R. A. Parsons, esq-, 
second son of the Rev. R.A. Parsons, of St. Mary’s- 
hall, Market-Drayton, to Miss Jane Hanbury, of 
Spetchley—R. Francis, esq. of Droitwich, to Miss 
Lyttleton, of Wick, near Worcester—At Worcester, 
Capt. C.O. Aveline, to Eliza, eldest daughter of A. 
Maud, esq. of Worcester. 
Died.] At Malvern, 20, Eliza, youngest daughter 
of the late W. Parry, esq. of Arkstone-house, Here- 
fordshire—34, W. Holbrook, esq. of Worcester, son 
of W. Holbrook, esq. of Ledbury—The Lady of Sir 
E. Mostyn, bart-—At Wainwright-house, Miss F. 
Sandon. 
HEREFORDSHIRE. 
Marvried.}| At Ledbury, H. Rudge, esq. of Leo- 
minster, to Eliza, daughter of J. Barrett, esq. of 
Prior’s-court—J. Mathews, esq. of Biddleston-Lan- 
garron, to Jane, youngest daughter of Mr. R. Leve- 
ridge, of Newent, Gloucester. 
Died.] At King’s Pyon, 40, C. Carpenter, esq.— 
Mary, wife of the Rev. J. Cawood, of Bewdley—At 
Treereece, Langarron, 85, E. Miles, esq.—At Here- 
ford, 85, Mrs. Colbach—64, Mrs. Ann Bethell—At 
Monnington on Wye, 50, the Rev. D. Lewis, 
GLOUCESTER AND MONMOUTH. 
A Royal Charter of Henry the Sixth, granted to 
Bristol, has lately been discovered. The contents of 
this charter are peculiarly interesting, as it is the only 
one which contains a schedule of rates for shipping as 
well as goods. Vessels were then charged 6d. which 
now pay 40s. and the different articles of merchandize 
were proportionately low. 
Jan. 21.—A fire broke out in the market-place at 
Bristol, which destroyed the whole of the Market- 
house, from High-street to the Crown Cellar, in- 
cluding the shop of Messrs. Councel and Jennings, 
grocers. 
At a meeting held at Cheltenham, on the 25th 
January, it was resolved to form a Gloucestershire 
Fire and Life Assurance Company, with a capital of 
One Million, divided into ten thousand shares of £100 
each.—£200,000 was immediately subscribed. 
There is in the possession of an inhabitant of Chel- 
tenham, a Roman coin of the reign of Vespasian, 
who died A.D. 79. It is of silver, and in excellent, 
nay, in uncommon preservation. On one side is the 
bust of the Emperor, encircled by the word ‘* Vespa- 
tianus;” and on the reverse, ‘the Eternal City” is 
represented by a female figure, very similar, indeed, 
as to position, to the ‘* Britannia” of our modern 
English coin. The ancient helmet protects the head : 
in the left hand is a spear, and in the right a globe, 
on which ‘‘the Herald Mercury” stands, as if ‘‘new 
lighted on a heaven-kissing hill.” On either side of 
the figure are the words, ‘* Urbs Roma.” ’ 
Married.) At Bristol, T. P. Peterson, esq. of Man- 
gotsfield-house, to Eleanor Rush, only daughter of 
W.J. Parker, esq. of Walton, Somerset—Captain H, 
Windsor, to Miss E. Sambrook—J. M‘Cabe, esq. M.D. 
of Cheltenham, to Miss Martin, only daughter of 
Colonel Martin, of Severn Stoke, Worcestershire—At 
Oxenhall, Mr. W. Bower of Shrewsbury, to Miss E, 
Turner, of Everton, Lancashire— At Elberton, A, 
Ward, esq. of New Leaze-house, Olveston, to Martha, 
only child of T. Johnson, esq. of Elberton—At Clif- 
ton, D. Stanton, to Elizabeth, widow of the late J. A. 
Simpson, esq. of Calcutta—At Bristol, James, son of 
the late G. Bengough, esq. “to Sarah, only daughter 
of W. Tuprall, esq.—At Dursley, S, Clutterbuck, 
2B 2 esq. 
