« y8or.] 
Awre, aged 87, Robert Boy, gentleman, the 
laftt of the name of that ancient family, of 
Thornbury. 
At Frampton upon Severn, aged 86, Mrs. 
Phillips, relict of the late E. Phillips, efq. 
of Gloucefter. 
At Wotton-under-Edge, aged 70, Clever 
Maurice Burland, efq. MM. P. brother of the 
late Sir John Burland, a baron of the Exche- 
quer. 
At Cherrington, J: Leverfage, efq. 
At Newent, Mrs. Eyles, wife of J. Eyles, 
efg. of Wimbledon, Surry. 
At Dean’s Hill, Mr. Jofeph Boughton, 
‘merchant. 
At Amptney Crucis, Mrs. 
R. Selte, efq. 
- At Tetbury, Mr. Beal. 
At Churcham, the Rev. Mr. Parker, vi- 
ear of that place, and rector of Sainfbury. 
At Brimgsfield, Mrs. Rebecca Curtiss. 
At Stroud, fuddenly, Mrs. Scudmore, wife 
of Mr. Rawles Scudmore, clothier. 
OXFORDSHIRE. 
The principal inhabitants of Banbury have 
lately purcliafed upwards roool. worth of ex- 
cent foreign wheat, which they grind and 
bake, and ‘are now felling to the poor of 
their parifh (nearly too]. worth of good 
wheaten bredd every week) at 2s. 6d. per 
half.peck loaf, 
~ Upwards of one hundred inhabitants of Ban- 
bury have entered into a fubfcription of from 
Tos. to 24s. per annum, under the name of 
the Charitable Society, by which they are 
enabled to give away a large fum every year 
in private benefactions to the induftrious and 
neceflitous poor, unlooked-for and unjolicited — 
Acharity*this, ef the moft exalted and bene- 
volent kind. 
Married.] At Banbury, Mr. Job, carpen- 
ter, to Mrs. King, innkeeper. 
At Kidlington, Mr. John Barnard, of 
Woodftock, to Mifs Wyatt, of Watereaton. 
At Heythorp, Mr. Thomas Slatter, of 
Pembroke College, Oxon, to Mifs Pearfon, 
. Mr. Thomas Mavity, a Quaker, to Mrs. 
€olfton, late of Gloucefter. 
At Broadway, Mr. Theoph. Knowles 
Holmes, mafter of Chapel Houfe, to Mifs 
Ricketts, of Knowles Hill. : 
At Wolton- upon-Thames, Liet. Campbell, 
of the Bombay marine, te Mifs winnie of 
Windfor. 
Died.| At Oxford, Mrs. Catharine Smith, 
only furviving daughter of Mr. Rd. Smith, 
glover.—Aged 80, Mrs. Mary Bell, reli as 
the Rev. Jofeph Bell, formerly redtor of 
Radclive and Stowe, Buéke, —Mrs. Tubb. 
At Nether-Worton, aged 17, Mr. Tho- 
mas Curtis, jun. 
At Watlingten, Mrs. Birkhead, relict of 
the Rev. Richard Birkhead, vicar of that 
lace. 
At Sandford, aged 80, Mr. J. Fry, farmer. 
_ » At Long Crowiat thy Mary North, in the 
_ pogth year of her age. 
Selfe, wife of 
Oxford fbire—Berkfbire—Buckinghampbire, Se. 
Sx 
At Henley-wpon-Thames, Mrs. Girle.— 
Mr. William Hilton, cornchandler and feedf- 
man.—Aged 63, Mr. Hill, late poftmater of 
Henley. 
BERKSHIRE. 
The price of the carriage of all goods (ex- 
cept firing and manures) upon the river Ken-- 
net, is advanced from three halfpence: to two- 
pence per ton per mile’; and upon the Ba- 
fing toke canal, one penny per hundredweights 
The Reading Mercury fates, that wheat 
declined in price 20s. per quarter, in that 
market, on the 27th of Dec. and that it ex-/ 
perienced a further decline of 20s. per quarter, 
on the 3d of fan. This is no proof of the 
fearcity complained of. It muft, however, 
be added that the idea of a rupture with the 
Northern Powers has fince raifed it to its for 
mer high price. 
At Mr. Weft’s annual charity fermon, for 
the benefit of the girl’s {chool in Reading, 
on St. Thomas’s day, the fubfcription, with 
fome fubfequent donations amounted -to up- 
wards of 581. which was more than it had 
been for feveral preceding years. 
The moiety of an eftate at Aldermafton 
was was lately fold by auction for aE ards of 
150 years purchafe ! 
Married. | At Rea ading, Mr. Tho. Howell,. 
of Strathfield Sea, Hants,‘to Mifs Knight, of 
Shinfield. 
At Abingdon, Mr. Rd. Stevenfon, aphiol- 
fterer, of London, to Mifs Hannah Watts. 
The Rev. Edw. Valpy, reétor of Stamford 
Dingeley, to Mrs Baldock. 
Died.) At Reading, Mr. Wm. George, 
infpector of the corn-marleet.—-Alfo, Mr. 
Saunders, confectioner and baker. 
At Abingdon, aged 33, C. Hart, efq. depu- 
ty lieutenant and one of his Majefty’ sjuftices 
of the peace for this county. 
BUCKINGHAMSHIRE. | 
Died.] At Beaconsfield, aged 81, the 
Rey. Dr. Stebbing, who ad been refident 
reCtor of that parifh upwards of 30 years. 
At Brompton, the lady of Wm. Lowndes, 
jun. efg. of Chefham. 
NORTHAMPTONSHIRE. 
At the annual meeting of the Peterborough 
Agricultural Society, Dec. 17, apremium of , 
two guineas was adjudged to W. Lewes, of 
Whittcring, labourer, for having brought up a 
family of 12 children, the youngeft of them to 
the age of 8 years, without parochial affitt- 
ance; alfo a premium of one guinea to John 
Browning, for having. worked as a labourer 
on the farm occupied by Mr. J. Bull, of Pe- 
terborough, ‘30 years; alfoa premium of one 
guinea to William Betts, for having lived as 
afervant in hufbandry, with Mr. J. Crofs, 
of Oundle, 27 years; and alfo a premium of 
one guinea to Sarah Blichols, for having 
lived with Mr. T. Dean, of Standground, $ 
years. 
In augmentation of the fund fubfcribed for 
the relief of the poor of Northampton, the 
Earl of Northampton, recorder, has given 
N 2 2001, 
