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PROVINCIAL OCCURRENCES. 
Including Accounts of all Improvements relating to the Agriculture, the Commerce, 
the Economy, the Police, Sc. of every Part of the Kingdom; with Notices of 
eminent Marriages, and of all the 
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eaths recorded im the Provincial Prints; to 
which are added, Biographical Anecdotes of remarkable and diftinguifhed 
Chara@ers. 
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Magazine is claffed, at confiderable Expence and Trouble, into difiinct Counties, 
which aré arranged Geéograpbically. 
&P Communications (vost paip) to this Department of the Monthly Magazine, par- 
ticularly of biographical Memoirs of eminent and remarkable. Charaéters, ,will always 
2 recerved and noticed with gratitude. 
NORTHUMBERLAND AND DURHAM: 
"THE BisHoPr of Durwam has expreffed his 
earneft with, that candidates for orders 
fhould in future prepate themfelves in Hebrew 
as well.as Greek. He has declared his inten- 
tion of giving a premium of books, to the 
amount of ten guimeas, to the candidate who 
fhall appeat to have made the greateft profi- . 
ciency in that languege ; and five guineas to \ 
~ each of the others who fhall conftrue, grain- 
matically, a chapter in the Hebrew Bible. 
At the affizes for Northumberland, John 
Leverit was found guilty of uttering the fol. 
lowing feditious words: viz.. It is no mat- 
ter to me who is king or queen ; I have no 
freehold or eftate to lofe ; I may chance to 
gain fomething, and therefore the fooner we 
begin. to have a revolution the better ; they 
want to ftarve the failors at the Nore, inftead 
of paying them their wages 5 they. have four 
) years» due, and the curfed government has no 
money to pay them; the poor fellows are 
naked, and it. is high time tor them to. have 
their eyes opened,” &c..&c, &c, His-fen- 
tence was, to be imprifoned for the term of 
one year, at the expiration of -which to find 
fecurities for his good behaviour, himftelf in 
100!, and two fecurities in 201. each. 
A fow, of the {mall Chinefe breed, be- 
longing to the rev. Mr. Plaw, of Shinkley 
Houfe, near Durham, Jately farrowed 21 
pigs, 19 of which aré living. 
Married |—At Bifhopwearmouth, G. Bret- 
ton, efg. to Mifs Margaret Walker. At 
Boldon, Mr. S. Stephenfon to Mifs Dolly Bell. 
At Newcaitle, Mr. N, Storey to Mifs Collier. 
_ At Earfdon, Mr. Peter Campbell to: Mifg 
Mary Workman, daughter of the rev. W. 
| Workman, reftor of Ford. At Newcafile, 
| Lionel .Currie,. efg. of London, to Mifs 
Clofe. At Hamfterley, Richard .Fifhwick, 
efg. to Mifs Urfula.Grey. At Workington, 
R. Smith, efq. banker, af London, to Mifs 
Barns. Mer. Bray, chymift, Sunderland, to 
Mifs Lodge, of Sivekton-upon-Tees. Capt. 
. Alexander Rutherford to Mifs Inglifh, of N. 
| Shields, Jonathan Scott, éfg. colleétor of ex~ 
cife, Liverpuols to, Mifs Mounfey, of Sun- 
!deriand. 
Died j—At Bedlington, Mrs. Wilkinfon. 
At Barnhill, Mr..H. Volmin. ..AtS. Shields, 
Mr. Wintertottom, furgeun. My. W. Hare 
)Montrry Mae: No, XXIL1, 
rifon, fhip-owner. At Ryton, aged 88, Mrs. 
. Humble, a maiden lady. AtForth, aged 
22, Mrs. Blackett... At Stockton; Mrs. Wil- 
fon. At Durham, Mrs. Rawlings. At Fels 
ton-path-foot, R. Alnwick, efq. At Cautey 
Park, aged 75, Mrs. Dunn, wife of Mr, 
Theophilus Dunn, of Morpeth. At Bolam, 
after a fhort illnefs, in the prime of life, Mifs 
Shepherd. At Newcaftle, Mr. T. Johnfon: 
At the fame place, Mr. T. Towns, of the 
Admiral Rodney publicehoufe. 
CUMBERLAND AND WESTMORELAND, 
Lhe Cumberland newpaper not being filed in 
any Coffee-houfe in London, we are compelled to 
omit the detail of the occurrences of that county. 
LANCASHIRE. fits 
Mr. Brook, of Mere, is elected member of 
parliament for the borough of Newton, in the 
room of the late Mr. Thomas Legh. This is 
the firft inftance-of a contefted eleAtion fince 
the reign vf Queen Elizabeth. 
The Supplementary Militia is ftated to have 
coft the inhabitants of this county no lefs thaw 
3c0,0c0l. 
One James Brown, mafon, in Calder, who, 
fourteen years ago, loft his fpeech in a fever, 
being lately feized with a return of that dif- 
order, his nurfe was equally aftonifhed and 
alarmed to hear him fuddenly call for fome 
‘drink, The fever, itis ftated, has not quite 
left him, but he retains the ufe of his 
{peech. 
Married.}|—-At Liverpool, Mr. J.. Page to 
Mifs J. Harvey, of Ormfkirk, Mr. J. Frod- 
fham to Mifs H. Hill. Mr. G. Chriftian, 
corn-merchant, to Mifs Margaret Syers. 
Mr. J. Morton to Mifs A. Seddon. Mr. J, 
Hodgion to Mifs. B. Brockboak, Mr. A. 
Prefion to Mifs E. Bolton. 
At Manchefter, Mr. H. Warburtin to Mifg 
A. Artingfiall. Mr. J. Berry to Mifs Alice 
Watkinfon. Mr. T. Carter to Mifs E. Seed, 
At the Collegiate Church, Manchefter, Mr. 
Peter Higginfon to Mifs Ann Yelding. Ar 
Warrington, Mr, H. Byrom, merchant, to 
Mifs Sherlock. At Lancafter, Mr. Fletcher, 
furveyor of the Laneathire Cayal, to Mifs 
Kew. At Bolland, Mr. W. Cottam to Mifs 
Sparrow. At Rochdale, R. Donovan, efa. 
barsifter at Jaw, to Mifs Yate. At Bolton, 
Mr. Salt, to Milfs Shaw. Myr. Lemuel Briggs 
Mifs Fel]. Mr. Hawder, of Lancafter, to 
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