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without Micklegate Bar, York, they broke in- 
to a vault, four fcet from the surface, built of 
stone, and arched over with Roman bricks, 
with asmall door or entrance at the north 
end: the length of the vault was eight feet, 
the height six feet, and breadth five feet; in 
this was discovered a coarse rag-stone grit, 
cowered with a flag of blue stone, about se- 
ven feet long, three feet two inches wide, four 
inches thick, and one foot nine inches deep, 
containing a human skeleton entire, with the 
teeth complete, supposed to be the remains of 
a Roman lady, and to have been deposited there 
from 1400 to 1700 years. Near the skull 
lay a small glass phial or lacrymatory, with 
tragments of another phial, the inside of which 
appeared to have been silvered.. Ata little 
distance from the vault, was also found an urn, 
of red colour, in which were deposited the 
ashes and bones partly burnt, of a human 
body. 
We are desired to contradict the false re- 
presentation relative tothe pretended accident 
which caused the death of Mr. Walker, of 
Rotherham. contained in our last, and which 
we copied from the Provincial Papers. That 
gentleman on the contrary died suddenly in 
his bed. 
Marricd.] At Pately-bridge, John Wood, 
esq. to Miss Yeoman. 
Died.] At Hull, aged 63, Mr. John Mar- 
shall, late of Cottingham. He has left the 
greatest part of his property, consisting of se- 
veral hundred pounds, to the minister and 
churchwardens of St. Mary’s, in Hull, the pa- 
rish of Sutton,Cottingham, and several adjoin- 
ing villages, for the use of the poor, to be laid 
outin bread.—Mr. Robert Leake, late com- 
modore of the Humber pilots.—-Mrs. Brown, 
59.—Mr. A. J.Simpson, merchant, 88.—Mrs. 
Temple. —Mr. Francis Stubbs, many years a 
master mariner of this port, 85. ‘ 
At Leeds, Mr. -William Boocock of the’ 
«Malt shovel publick house, 20.—Mr. Joseph 
Midgley, upwards of 40 yearsone of the waiters 
of the corporation —Mr. John Appleyard.— 
Mis Elizabeth Teale.—Mr. John Butterfield, 
ef the Horseand Trumpet public house,—Mrs, 
Denton. 
At York, Mrs. Surr.—-Mr. James Nichol- 
‘son, Supposed to have been the best performer 
of his time,on the pipeand tabor, in the king- 
dom —Mrs. Gill. 
At Acomb, near York, Mr, Michael Simp- 
son, formerly an upholsterer of Leeds. 
At Eccleshill hall, near Bradford, Mrs. Stott, 
wi:e of Walter S. esq. 
* At Winmoor, near Leeds, Miss Sykes, eld- 
‘est daughter of Mr. George S. 
At Easingwold, Alexander Harper, gent. 
late an eminent conveyancer, 63. 
At Pontefract. John Willot, esq. 
At Huddersficld, Miss Parkin, eldest daugh- 
ter of Mr. P. superintendant minister cf the 
methodist society in that town. 
At Burley, near Oticy, Mr. John Dawson 
Dixen, 
Lancashire. 
[Qct. 4, 
At Little Weeton, near Beverley, John 
‘Hudson, esq. 70. 
At Bridlington, Mrs. E. Plummer, 79.— 
Mrs. Greenaway, relict of Captain George 
G. 48. 
At Doncaster, Miss Elizabeth Stanley, 27. 
At Rotherham, Mr. Hoyle, attorney, clerfe 
to the proprietors of the Dun and Dearne and 
Dove navigation. 
At Doncaster, Dr. Miller, well known in 
the musical and literary circles, as a man of 
genius and integrity. His various publications 
were extremely popular: his Psalms of David, 
for the Church of England, were patronized 
by his¥ Majesty and the clergy, and went forth, 
with a list of subscribers inferior only to that 
prefixed to Pope’s Homer. Other works com- 
posed by him expressly for the Dissenters, pro- 
mise to become the standard of: singing in 
their respective societies. The poetry ef 
‘Watts and Wesley have received fresh charms 
from a style at once simple and expressive, 
and admirably adapted to the capacity of pub- 
lic congregations. After a long life actively 
spent in the hurry and dissipation of general 
society, he gradually retired within the circle 
of a tew religious friends, in whose company 
he passed the latter years of his life. He was 
upwards of 75 years old at his death, and 
above 50 organist at Doncaster. 
LANCASHIRE. 
A great improvement has recently been 
made in the cultivation of the marsh and moss 
lands within the townships of Overton, Mid- 
dle:on, and Heysham, near Lancaster, frem 
the discovery of a bed of sea sand, of an un- 
known depth, lying about three feet below the 
surface of the earth. The farmers dig pits in 
the form of marl pits, and after taking off the 
soi] and a stratum of blue clay, about two feet 
and a halfin thickness, they arrive at the sand, 
which being spread on the surface of the earth, 
mixes with and loosens the soil, before too 
stiff for agricultural purposes, and converts it 
into the best arable land in the neighbour- 
hood; being capable of bearing four or five 
successive crops without manure. The bed 
of sand alluded to, universally prevails in all 
that valley of low land, extending in length 
from the west end ef the village of Overton, 
where it joins the river Lune, to thatof Powl- 
ton on the north shore of the peninsula, or 
strip of land sometimes called the Little 
Field, bounded by the high lands of Overton 
and Heaton on one side, and those of Middle- 
ton and, Heysham on the other, many acres 
of which are covered with moss upwards of 
twelve feetin depth. Those pits abound with 
sea sheels, sea weeds, and other marine sub- 
jects; and in the bottom of one of them, 
within Mr. Marton’s estate, in Middleton 2 
row of stakes was found, fifteen feet below 
the surface of the ground placed with mathe-- 
matical exactness in a right line, at equal dis- 
tances, and in a perpendicular position, ina 
field that has been totally covered with moss 
eeveral yards in depth, even within the last 
century 
