108 Provincial Occurrences : Leicester and Ridlandshire, S^c. [Jan. 



I.EICEETF.a AND RUTLANDSHIRE. 



^h rlarmlnf; fire broke out lately at Bunghurs', 

 oil the premises of Mr. D. Wright, flax-dresser, the 

 buildings on which were entirely destroyed. 



MnrnerfJ, AV. Curtis, esq., of Leicester, to Char- 

 lotte, daughter of the Rev. J. H. D'Avenant, of 

 Ham, Wilts. 



llt-th'] Sarah, wife of R. Brookhouso, Leiceftcr— 

 The Rev. T. Norris, rector of Hardy— (III, J. N. Fry, 

 t.ouRhborou.n^h -fields— 'i-l, Sophia, wife of T. Need- 

 ham, of Hinkley— Vt Barrow-upcn-Sioar, G3, Dr. T. 

 Parkinson, late of Leicester. 



STAFFORDSHIttE. 



A few weeks since, some miners employed at the 

 Rough Hills Colliery, <Usco' ered in a piece of iron- 

 stone, at a depth of l.id feet from the surface, a 

 small toad, which lived about three weeks after, and 

 grew to nearly double its size when first released 

 from its confined cell. The creature was put into 

 water and not fed, and therefore is supposed to have 

 died of want. 



Married.'^ M Sanrton, ,T. S. Wortlev, esq., M.P., 

 to Ladv Georgiana Ryder, third daughter of the Earl 

 of Hariowby — At Swimmerton, J. Bamford, esq., of 

 ^» inslow, Cheshire, to Ann, daughter of the late 

 Mr. ,T. Mosedale. 



IVerl.'] The Rev. T. Shaw, head master of the 

 free grammar-school of Stafford — .\t Whitmore, !K1, 



K. Mainwaring, esq 1)5, Mrs. Darwell, relict of the 



late Rev. J. Darwell, of Walsall. 



WAUWICKSHIRE. 



A medicinal spring has lately been discovered at 

 Willoughby, near the Four Crosses Inn, which is 

 now submitted to Sir H. Davy for the purpose of 

 being analyzed ; it is supposed to contain a mixture 

 of magnesia, sulphur, iron, and saline particles. 



Mr. B. Cook, of Birmingham, has recently ob- 

 tained a patent for an invention by which the strain 

 is taken oft" the cable of vessels at anchor, rendering 

 them more secure; which is effected by applying a 

 simple piece of mechanism that will give great elas- 

 ticity to the cable. 



A tablet has been lately placed in .St. 'Martin's- 

 Church, Birmingham, to the memory of R. Prat- 

 chett, gentleman, ns a grateful acknowledgment of 

 extensive public services rendered by him to the 

 parish of Birmingham duringa space of thirty years. 



Died.'] At Birmingham, 50, .T. Underbill, esq ; 



Mary, wife of R. Astley, esq At Coventry, Edith, 



wife of Mr. W. Flavell— At Alcester, 51, Miss 

 thatterley. 



SIinOPSHIRE. 

 Some workmen employed lately in taking off the 

 old thatchfrom a farm-house at the Lyth, near Con- 

 dover, on the estate of E. W. S. Owen, esq., dis- 

 covered twenty gold coins of the reigns of James I. 

 and Charles II., all in a perfect state of preservation. 

 In taking down the old Alms Houses in St. Mary's 

 Parish, Shrewsbury, a considerable number of coins 

 were found between the joists and floor in one of the 

 ' habitations — they were chiefly shillings, coined in 

 the reigns of Elizabeth and Charles. 



A meeting was held lately at Shrewsbury for the 

 purpose of forming an Association of ladies in aid of 

 theijunday School Society in Ireland. The meeting 

 was attended most respectably ; and £'ib were im- 

 mediately deposited in the hands if the treasurer by 

 the ladies assembled. 



JWajrieri.] At Pontesbury, W. Griffith, esq. to 

 Miss B. M. Tipton, of Plealey— At Madeley, the 

 Rev. E. P. Owen, vicar of Wellington, to Miss Dar- 

 by, daughter of the late S. Darby, esq., of Cole- 

 Tjrook-dale. 



Died.'] The Rev. T.Stedman, vicar of St. Chad's, 

 Shrewsbury — Ann, relict of J. Cooke, esq., of Halle- 

 fields, Macclesfield— Mrs. Cartwright, relict of W. 

 Cart vright, esq., of Wellington — J. Powell, esq., of 

 Plecsgxvaen, near Oswestry — Maria, d ughter of J. 

 Hutchings, esq., of i^udlow. 



WORCESTER. 



A meeting was held lately at Kidderminster, to 

 which Mr. Cropper, of Liverpool, was invited, to 

 explain his views by which slavery may be abolished 

 in the West-Indies, by the competition of free la- 

 bour ; wlten a large and highly respectable committee 

 was formed to adopt such measures as might appear 

 most eligible for the abolition of slavery, consistent 

 with a due regard to the interests of all parties. 



A very elegant piece of plate, of the value of 150 

 guineas, provided by the subscription of one guinea 

 each of 150 gentlemen educated at Silver-street Aca- 

 demy, Worcester, is to be presented to J. Simpson, 

 LL.D., so long the master of that highly respectable 

 establishment, as a testimony of their regard and 

 esteem. 



Married.'] N. Hartland, esq., of Evesham, to 

 Eliza, daughter of Dr. Dixon, of Grove-villa, Wor- 

 cester — F. H. Williams, esq., of Colnbrook-park, 

 Monmouthshire, to Elizabeth Ann Pakington, 

 daughter of the late W. Russell, esq., of Powick- 

 court. 



Died.] The Rev. Dr. Wlngfield, prebendary of 

 Worcester Cathedral; (i5, Mr. E. Passey, of Lud- 

 low; J. Piatt, esq. ; .58, J. Newman, M.D; 84, Mrs. 

 C. Wall, daughter of the late Dr. Wall; 24, Emma, 

 wife of Mr. T. Chalk— 71, the Rev. J. Plumptree, 

 D.D, dean of Gloucester, and vicar of Stone and 

 Wichenford^O, Jane, wife of J. Hooman, esq., of 

 France, near Kidderminster. 



HEREFORDSHIRE. 



An apple, called the Gerraaine, which measured 

 twelve inches round one way and twelve inches and 

 three-quarters another, weighing fifteen ounces, was 

 gathered lately in a gentleman's garden near Here- 

 ford. It was one of a second crop from the same 

 tree ; the first of which was an abundant one, and 

 was gathered in July. Thetree again partially blos- 

 somed, and produced seventeen very fine apples. 



Died.'] At Cusop, near Hay, two widows, whose 

 united ages amounted to 194 years — 81, Catherine, 

 widow of W. Dauncey, esq., of Brinsop-court — 

 Elizabeth, wife of the Rev. J.Williams, rector of 

 St. Devereux and Wormbridge — At Ledbury, Jane 

 Worrall, daughter of the Rev. J. Watts. 



GLOUCESTER AND MONMOUTH. 



Lately the Lord Bishop of Gloucester laid the 

 foundation stone of the new church to be erected in 

 Suffolksquare, Cheltenham. 



A very commodious market-house has recently 

 been erected in the borough of Berkeley, and was 

 opened for the use of the public on the 20th of 

 November. 



Marrird.'] At Bristol, R. Elwcs, esq., of Stoke- 

 park, Suffolk, to Catherine, daughter of I. Elton, 

 esq., of Stapleton-house ; Mr. T- Britton, to Susan, 

 daughter of the Rev. R. Davies, of Wrington; Cap- 

 tain C. H. Thomas, to Isabella, daughter of Mr. G. 

 King ; R. F. Fitzherbert, esq. to M. K. S. E. Simp- 

 son, daughter of the late J. K. U. A. Simpson, esq., 

 formerly of Mercy-hall, Kent— At Clifton, E. Mar- 

 tin, esq., son of the Rev. Dr. Martin, of Dublin, to 

 Elizabeth, daughter of the late R. Zouch, esq.; 

 Captain Royds, 52d regt, to Georgiana, daughter of 

 L. Peel, esq., late of Ardwick— At Cheltenham, G. 

 B. Robinson, esq., eldest son of Sir G. A. Robinson, 

 barU, to Louisa, daughter of the late Maj. Gen. 

 Douglas— At Abergavenny, Mr. J. Symes, of War- 

 minster, to Margaret, daughter of the late Captain 

 Groves, 3d. royal vet. bat. 



Died.'] At Bristol, Miss E. P. Pprague, daughter 

 of the late Rev. D. Sprague; Miss M. Green; 60, 

 R. Pinckney, esq.; Mr. J. Cripps; at the Spa, 81, 

 Mrs. Oakeley, relict of J. Oakeley, esq., of Oakeley- 

 house, Salop— At Cheltenham, 23, Mrs. MacLeod, 

 relict of Captain D. Macleod ; 51, Caroline, relict 

 of J. Towe, esq., of Snydale-hall, Yorkshire; Char- 

 lotte, daughter of Admiral R. Montague; .34, Mrs. 

 Edouart— At Tewkesbury, CO, Sarah, relict of Mr. 

 .1. Lords; W. Barnard, esq., of WMte-fields— At 

 Stonehouse, 40, the Rev. J. R.rricr; Savah, wifu 

 of Major Woobridge, R. M.— Thr lady of E. Maxeu, 

 esq., of Clifton— 72, Mr. J. S. Woolletl, of Mon- 

 raooth— 79, W. Phelps, of Puckrup— The lady of 



