1796.) Herefordpire 6 ae Monmouthfhire 9 Cy Gloucefter foire. 
has left behind him the charatter of aa honeft 
an. 
e At Redditch, Mr. Richard Moore. 
At Hales Owen, the Rey. John Parkes, A.B. 
mafter of the Free Grammar School of that 
place, and minifter of Oldbury 5 he was beloved 
for his liberality and philanthropy. 
* At St. John’s near Worcefter, aged 22, Mrs. 
Lingham, one of the people called Quakers. 
At Clent, near Stourbridge, T, Liell, efg. of 
the Royal Navy, and late Commander of the 
Stafford Indiaman. 
At Great Witley, aged 54, Geo. Maull, efq. 
feveral years Bailiff and Magiftrate of Droit- 
wich. a : 
At Feckenham; Thomas Smith, efq. of the 
Lane Houle. 
In Worcefter, Mr. Thomas Mellichamp, of 
the Parade. 
In Worcefter, of a decline, Mr. W. Brandifh, 
one of the Printers of that refpeétable paper, 
the Worcefter Herald, which is now continued 
by his partner, Mr. Hort. 
R. Bradley, efq. an eminent Glafs Manufac- 
turer, near Stourbridge. 
Herefordshire. |—Hereford, March 8. 
On Sunday last, as some barges, laden with 
corn, were proceeding down the Wye, for. 
Bristol, they were stopped near Ross, by 
a number of persons from the forest of 
Dean—On the following day, the magi- 
strates of the division, with a party of 
soldiers attending,—and the proprietors 
consenting that a quantity of the wheat 
should be sold at a reduced pi the 
barges were suffered to proceed. 
A benefit society, for females only, 
of which the humane and liberal lady 
Maldon is the patroness, has been insti- 
tuted lately at Leominster. 
The magistrates of Hereford have of- 
fered a reward of Five Guineas for the 
detection of forestallers. 
’ On Feb. 19th, a fire broke out in the 
dwelling house of Mr. Powell, of the 
- Welsh Court, near Ross, which in ashert 
time consumed the premises, with the 
furniture, and other articles, to a con- 
aiderable amount. 
On Feb. 20, a fire broke out in the 
house of Robert Barrol, of Woolhope, 
which totally consumed the same, toge- 
ther with an adjoining tenement. 
Married.| Mr, John Smith, of Clifford, to 
Mils Pritchard. 
_ Died.| The Rev. H. Tadfwell, B. A. Sub- 
treafurer, and Senior Vicar-choral of Hereford 
tathedral, and Vicar of Mardon. 
_ At Leominfter, fuddenly, Mr. Putcher. At 
Leominfter, Mrs. Brown. Mr. W. Baldwin. 
Mr. Sam. Hughes, formerly an eminent auc- 
tloneer, and author of feveral pieces in verfe 
_and profe. Aged 83, Mr. James Morris. ‘The 
ev, Rich. Vaughan, M. A, vicar of Leomin- 
165 
fter, and minifter of the united parifhes of 
Kingfton and Thruxton. He had refided near- 
ly half a century on the latter preferment, and 
difplayed fuch profeffional zeal and vigour of 
conttitution, that he never intermitted his pub- 
lic labours from any caufe more than five Syn~ 
days during the whole period. _ 
Near Rofs, Mr. john Merrick. At Peter. 
church, Mr. Stephen Endall, jun. At News 
ton, advanced in years, Thomas Phillips, Efq. 
he had before his death handfomely endowed 
a {chool for the poor of his parifh. At More~ 
ton, Mr. F/eet. He was murdered by a Mr. 
Sibbering, his quondam friend ; when Sibber« 
ing was fecured, he cut his own throat witha 
penknife, and expired in three quarters of an 
hour afterwards. 
Monmouthshire. |—Monmouth, March 
2. Five boats, laden with coals and ig 
iron, &c. entered lately that branch of 
the Monmouthshire canal, which extends 
from Pontypool to Newport; being the 
first vessels which ever navigated that 
canal. The river at Newport will admit 
ships of any burthen. The Ebber Vale 
branch of the canal will be completed in 
the course of a few months. 
Died.| At Abergavenny, Mr. Hughes, 
Gloucestershire.| At Gloucester assizes, 
Wilham Ward was sentenced to pay a 
fine of one shilling, and to one year’s 
imprisonnient. : 
The duke of Beaufort has introduced 
among his tenants, the use of oxen in the 
cultivation of land, in lieu of horses. 
His grace’s example has been imitated in 
the neighbouring country. 
Mr. Farmer Williams, of Pike Cor- 
ner, from motives of benevolence, sold 
lately to the poor in his neighbourhood, 
thirty sacks a wheat, at eight shillings 
per bushel. 
The impolicy of putting threshers to 
work by the task, is strikingly manifested 
in an instance, which has just eccurred to 
Mr. Weeks, of the Bell Inn, at New. 
port, who haying purchased forty-two, 
dozen of straw, and observing, after 
twelve dozen of it had been used, a con< 
siderable quantity of wheat lying about 
the stables, had the remaining thirty 
dozen rethreshed, which produced two 
bushels of clean wheat. 
* Married.| The Rev. Wm. Walley to Mrs. 
Buxton, of Upper Slaughter. Mr. “fones to 
Mifs Sherman. At Cloddock, Mr. J. Siith to 
Mifs Pritchard. At Frampton, Mr. john King. 
to Mifs Collins. In Gloucefter, Mr. 'T. Sones 
to Mrs. Shurman. At Newnham, Mr. John 
Hartland to Mifs Hill, Mr. Tho. Hathaway, 
of Cheltenham, to Mifs Hannah Rogers. 
Died. | At Highham Court, Mifs Gaife, eldeft 
daughter of Sir John G. Bart. The moft ens 
gaging 
