CHRONICLE. 
and a valuable. member of the com- 
munity. His death was occasioned 
-by anvaccident of a negro driving a 
horse fariously (a praétice which it 
is wonderful has not been more fre- 
quently attended with like fatal ef- 
fects) against him 14 days before, 
just as he had mounted his own, 
irdm which he was precipitated, and 
zeceived such a contusion generally 
throughout his frame, as to oceasion 
his death, 
Sept. 2d. Ina very advanced age, 
‘Mr. Stageldoir, formerly, and for 
many years, propertysman of Drury- 
dane theatre: ») ¢ ns , 
- In Norfolk, in consequence of 
the: accident which recently hap- 
pened to him (a fall from his horse,) 
sir Jacob Henry Astley, bart. M. P. 
for that county. He was third son 
of the late sir Jacob by his first wife, 
daughter ofsir FrancisBlakeDelaval. 
- 5th. At Cheltenham, aged 55, 
Clement Archer, M. D. husband of 
lady «Clonbrooke, niece to lord 
Norbury. No gentleman stood 
higher in the profession, or in pri- 
vate life was more respeéted and re- 
garded. He was joint state-surgeon 
in Ireland with surgeon Hume, fa- 
ther to Dr. H. of Grosvenor-street, 
now solestate-surgeon. — 
8th. At Richmond, Surrey, ad. 
vanced in age, the rev. William 
Affleck, rector of North Luffenham, 
_ co. Rutland, and vicar of Potton, co. 
Bedford. He was of Emanuel col- 
lege, Cambridge ; B. A. 1736; M.A. 
1740; S.'T. B. 1747. 
9th, Suddenly, in consequence of 
an apoplectic fit, aged 61, John 
Lioyd, esq. of Berth-hall, co. Den- 
bigh, chief justice of the counties of 
Carmarthen, Pembroke, and Den- 
bigh, and a king’s counsel. He was 
very eminent as a practical lawyer ; 
but of very close and parsimonious 
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habits, homely in his speech, and 
plain in his manners, He was the 
intimate friend of the late venerable 
and much-lamented lord Thurlow, 
who, as will appear hereafter, sur- 
vived him but three days, Mr. L. 
had lately returned from the cir- 
cuit; and during the whole course of 
his tour, and when he left Cardigan, 
the last: town in rotation, he ap- 
peared in perfeét health, and in that 
staté arrived at his town-house, where 
he was taken ill, and expired’ as 
above stated. | aunty of 
11th. At his rectorial house, at 
St. Mary-at-hill, London, aged 
about 63, the rev. John Brand, 
M.A. rector of the united parishes 
of St. Mary Hill, and St.’ Andrew 
Hubbard, in the city of London, 
and resident secretary of the society 
He was a native of 
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and, Oct. 6, 
1774, (being at that time B. A. of 
Lincoln college, Oxford), he was 
presented by Matthew Ridley, esq. 
of Heaton (patron pre hac viee), to 
the curacy of Cramlington, a chapel 
of ease to St. Nicholas, at Nevw- 
castle, from which itis distant about 
eight miles. While a bachelor of 
arts at the university, he published 
a very pretty poem on * Illicit 
Love, 1775,”’ 8vo. supposed to be 
written among the ruins of God- 
stow nunnery. He was admitted 
F.S. A. in 1777, and published in 
that year, his ** Observations on 
Popular Antiquities, including the 
whole of Mr. Bourne’s Antiquitates 
Vulgares, with Addenda to every 
chapter of that work; as also an 
Appendix, containing such articles 
on the subject, as have been omitted. 
by that author,” 8vo. dated from 
Westgate-street, Tyne, 1776. For 
an enlarged edition of this book, 
he had long been collecting mate- 
Nn 2 rials. 
