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tell, of Abingdon, to Mrs. Davis, of Ewes 
lime. 
Died-| AtOxford, aged 78, Mrs. E. Cur- 
tis, widow of the late Mr. R. Curtis, coole 
of Exeter-cullege —-The Rev. T. Shaw, of 
Magdalen-ball.—-Mr. J. Hart, carpenter.— 
Miis H. Gough, of Souldern. 
At Great Marlow, Bucks, J. Downes, efq. 
late of Upper Eaft Hayes. 
At Hogftoun, Bucks, in her 22d year, 
Mifs L. Mead, niece of Mr. W. Gilkes, 
lately deceafed, and formerly of Dodderfhall. 
At Alvefcot, aged 92, Mr. T. Wickens. 
EEDFORDSHIRE. 
Notice has been lately given by public ad- 
vertifement, that one ward of the Bedford 
Infirmary will be ready for the reception of 
fix in-patients, on Saturday, Auguft 13; and 
that the medical gentlemen will be ready 
from that day to give their advice, &c. to all 
fuch out-patients as can be properly recom- 
mended, 
The late Woburn Sheep-fbearing.—The Puke 
of Bedford, fully impreffed with an idea of 
the -excellent tendency of the meetings 
which his late much-lamented brother had 
éftablifhed at Woburn abbey, dire€ted it to 
take place as ufual in 1802. In the late 
meeting (of 18¢3,) his Grace was prefent 
himfelf, and gave particular attention to every 
circumftance of the condu& of the bufinefs, 
that it might in all refpeéts proceed as it had 
formerly doneunder the late Duke, Among 
other company in the abbey were the Duke 
of Manciiefter, the Earls of Thanet, Talbot, 
Darnley, Bradford, Winchelfea, and’ Meath, 
Lords Somerville, Prefton, and William Ruf- 
fell; Prince Efterhazy, Hung2-ian3 Mr. 
Gore, the American Minifter 5; Sir John Sin- 
clair, Sir Harry Fetherfton, &c. &¢. &.— 
The firft premium, of ten guineas, offered by 
the Duke laft year, forthe beft two-thear we- 
ther, was adjudged to Mr. Earl. The fecond, 
of five guineas, for flieep bred in Bedford- 
fhire, to Mr. Bithrey, two fhear alfo. The 
judges appointed to examine the theaves 
thewn for the premium offered by the Duke, 
- adjudged the firft premium to Mr. John Pur- 
fer, cf'St. Leonard’s, Bedford, and the fecond 
premium to Mr, John Circuit, of Woburn.— 
The judges. appeinted to examine the pigs 
fhewn for the premium offered by the Duke, 
pronounced the Effex boar, the property of 
Charles Weftern, Efg. of Fel'x hall, entitled 
tothe premium. The judges appointed by 
the Duke to examine the work of the ploughs 
produced in claim of the premium offered by 
his Grace, determined thar the Duke of Bed- 
ford’s Norfolk-plough on Crawley-farm, was 
entitied to the premium. The Duke, in 
reading this adjudication, remarked, ** that 
he permitted bis bailiffs to chufe what imple- 
ments they thought beft, for their refpective 
farms,and to be canaidates by fhewing them 3”? 
and ordered the cup to be givento Mr. Wil- 
_ Beafirdfire. 
{Sept. 1,- 
fon, bailiffon the Park-farm, Of the dife 
‘ferent agricultural implements. exhibited for 
the premium offered by the Duke, none of 
them were confidered to be yet in fucha per- 
fe& ftate, as to be entitled to that diftin@ion 
which the acquifition of a premium might 
confer. 
Premiums for Sheep-/bearing.—The firft was 
adjudged to Mr. John Mafon, of Eaton ; the 
fecond to Mr.John Arnold, of Crawley, both 
in Bedfordthise; the third to Mr Jofeph 
Hartwell, of Woburn ; the fourth toMr.Tho- 
mas Sale, of Warwickthire ; the fifth to Mr. 
John Lambert, of Wotton, in Bedfordthire.— 
The experiments in ploughing were made 
in detail, one plough at atime, in order that 
the force exerted might be meafured by the 
machine for afcertaining that force. 
Ploughs. Force. Depth. 
Ct. Inches. 
Northumberland .....1%.-.......... 4% 
Double-furrow......- 12.5. a ice 
Park-farm, Norfolk...1, dfs a fra&tion. . €% 
Mr. Barlew oe 22.423 Tqh ie’ = i= md aa 
Dr. Matquin. 2apct. 2 13. 5 sz 
Maulden-farm,Norfolk 13.....---..-- 5x 
Mr. Salmon, ~ whofe l 
plough had a wheel -I -........2--4% 
at the heel J 
The column of depth is added to denote the 
faperior refiftance of any given depth at the 
bottom of the turrow, overa like depth at the 
furface. The application of a wheel at the 
heel of a plough, was originally the thought 
of Mr. Francis Moore, a li en-draper, in 
Cheapfide, who took out a patent for it above 
twenty years ago; his wheel was in a vertical 
pofition; Mr. Salmon’s is ia « diagonal one, 
which he finds better 5 and his plough hag a _ 
great fingularity in the draft being applic to 
the coulter; it was a roughly-finifhed im- 
plement, but promifes, with the aid of me- 
chanical ingenuity, to be improved into a va- 
luable tool. Mr. Noon, of Burton-upon- 
Trent, exhibited a hand-threfhing-mill, a 
cylindrical drum-wheel, as in the common- 
mills, but the beaters in parts, and moveable 
on hinges. This circumftance will probably be 
found an improvement when applied to horfe- 
work, Mr Lefter exhibited a threfhing-mill 
which worked by a caft-iron cylinder,pierced 
for rubbing out the grain inftead of breaking 
it. Mr.Coke having propofed that at the next 
Woburn fheep-fhearing there fhould he a trial 
of ploughs, and he. having challenged ‘all 
England with a Norfolk-plough and a pair of 
horfes, to plough an acre, or half an acre of 
any foil, for fifty guineas—regard being had 
to the depth and cleannefs of the furrow— 
double-team allowed for a double-furrow 
plough, it was agreed upon that the bet 
thould be cecided May’26, at Burnham-wick, 
by ploughing two ridges ezch plough 3 and 
the parties to whom the decifion was referred 
having taken into confideration the depth 
and cleannefS of the furrow, as well as the 
time 
