324 Oxford.u Bucks on Bedford £1¢rtfor din E fei. Norfalk. 
GLOUCESTERSHIRE, continued. 
Married} At Newnham, Mr. R. Bowen 
to Mifs A. Taylor, Mr. D. Bennett to Mifs 
Bartlett. Mr. G. Welfh, of Darfley, to Mifs 
White, of Alftone. At Ozleworth, Mr. 
Philpotts, attorney, to Mifs S. Chamler. 
Died.| Jofiab Paul, efq. of Tetbury. At 
Kemptanley, Mr. Anthony Keck, acelebated 
architect. 
OXFORDSHIRE. 
The clinical profeffer will begin his eourfe 
ef jectures, at Radclitfe Infirmary, on the 1ft 
oi November. ze 
‘ The farmers who occupy low lands in 
Glaftonbury and Meare, are ftated to be 
greatly difirefled fer pafturage for their cattle. 
Some of them are obliged to go five or fix 
miles to milk their cows. 
The reader in anatomy will begin his courfe 
ef legtures in the Anatomy School, on the 
3d of November. 
Married} At St. Clement’s Church, in 
the fuburhs of Oxford, Mr. W. Vicary, 
erganift, to Mrs. Bailey. 
Died.] At Oxford, Mrs. Briggs, widow of 
J. Briggs, late porter of the Univerfity Col- 
lege: dhe was founddead in her bed. At 
fame place, fuddenly, John Hunt. At Pyre- 
ton, agéd.70, Sir fobn Stewart, bart. At 
Baldon, Mrs. Bacon. At Banbury, Mrs. 
Hopeman: fhe was the firft corpfe carried® 
Near Banbury, Mr. 
into the new. ehurch 
T. Sanfbury. 
BUCKINGHAMSHIRE. 
Married] At Great Brickhill, Mr, D. 
Willis, attorney, of Bedfordthire, to Mifs 
Warner, of the former place. 
BEDFORDSHIRE. 
Letters from Bedfordihire, and mof parts of 
the country, give a dreadful lift of accidents 
and damages, occafioned by the late violent 
rains. In many places the roads have been 
rendered impaflable for carriages. 
Married.} Mr. J. Skinner to Mifs Ann 
Saw : the bridegroom’s mother is the bride’s 
own fifter. ; 
-At Studham, Mr. J. Barton, furgeon, 
Mi‘s Parry, of Salifbury. 
_ HERTFORDSHIRE, 
At the late feflions, a fellow of the name 
of Eade was tried for riotous behaviour, in a 
diffenting place of. worfhip, at Sawbridge- 
Worth, He had, it feems, interrupted the 
preacher, who was praying for a fpeedy peace, 
by calling out—** Aye, and let it Le an honour- 
able one.” After this he fung God fave the 
Kinz.” Eade, who pleaded his own caufe, 
refted his defence chiefly upon the fervour of 
his loyalty, and accufed the diffenters of Ja- 
cobinical principles! He made a legal ecb- 
jeétion to the indiftment, as the words were 
not uttered in. the-room where the meeting 
was held. ‘This objeGtion, however, was 
over-ruled ; the words of the bifhop’s licence 
to 
including the whole houfe. Eade was ien- 
fenced to pay a fine of ol. 
Died.| At Hertford, aged 84, Mr. 
Raiph Ryal. At Northchurch, Mifs Irefon. 
At Chefhunt. Mrs. Sedgwicke 
roa. 
ESSEX. 
The crops of potatoes, this feafon, are 
ftated to be the largeft ever known in the 
memory of man. For fome months paft, one 
farmer in this county has paid at the rate of 
from 60). to 70]. per week to the hoers. 
Married.] At Hatftead, Mr. D: Lloyd, of 
Coventry, to Mifs M. Hanbury. 
At Chelmsford, Mr. W. W 
to Mifs Hawkin. cate 
Died.|_ At Eaf Barnett, Angus Macau- 
ley, LL.D. At Witham, aged 77, Major 
R. Callis. At Waltham Abbey, Mifs Mar- 
tha Lett. At Chelmsford, the rev. Francis 
Guifton. At fame place, Mr. W. Johnfon, 
artift. George Peter, of Bellhouie, aged 
thirty-one, 
NORFOLK. 
The Duke of Norfolk’s improvements at 
Arundel Caftle, on which he has expended no 
lefs a fum than zZ00,c00l. are in the Saxon 
ftyle. ‘This magnificent building is 200 feet 
each way; the ground-floor is entirely of 
ftone, the, fecond of mahogany, the third of 
‘oak, and.the fourth of deal. _ * 
A man, named James Hammond, had for 
fome time paid his court to a young woman at 
Sibton, named Mary Powell, but on the eve of 
marriage the match: was broken off by fome 
trivial quarrel... The fair one, in refentment, 
received the addrefles of another aamirer, 
and countenanced a report, that they were te 
be called in church, by proclamation of the 
banns, cn the following Sunday. Hammond 
was fo affected at this intelligence, that he 
put a period to his exiftence, by nearly fever- 
ing his head from his body 5° and the incon 
fiderate maid, on hearing of his tragical end, 
hung herfelf up in the kitchen. The coroner’s 
ingueff, on each, brought in their verdi& hi. 
nacy. 
A cottage belonging to a poor labourer, at 
Ludbam, was lately deftroyed by fire, toge~ 
ther with a quantity of hay adjoining. Some 
children were playing. near a fire, when the 
blaze caught the frock of one of them, which 
was touch burnt. To conceal the accident, 
they hid the réemsins. of the frock, yet unex- 
tinguifhed, among fome hay ; the conflagra- 
tion, in a fhort time, was general and irre- 
fiftible. 
The occupiers of farms in the county of 
Norfolk, intend to prefent a petition to the 
Houfe of Commons, in the next feffions, for 
a repeal of the laie aéis laying taxes upon 
hories ufed in hufbandry. They contend, that it 
is partial in its operation on the oceupiers of 
arable farms, whilft the owners of grazing and 
feeding lands will be but little affe@ted by it. 
Married. The rev. -W. B. Jones to Mifs 
Lindoe, of Norwich, The rev. G. Wilfony 
of Afhwelthorpe, to Mifs Millard. At 
Lynn, at the Quakers’ meeting, Mr. T. 
Dixon to Mifs Corby. Mr. R. Lunn, of 
King’s Lynn, to Mifs Crifp. Mr. Wallace to 
Mifs Margaret Lloyd. Mr. J. Denifley, of - 
Croxton, to Mifs Margaret Mingay, fourth 
filter of James Mingay, king’s counfel. At 
Norwichs 
