1808.] 
At St. Cross, near Winchester, Mrs. Sim- 
fhonds. 
At Southampton, Mr. John Taylor, 92.— 
Miss J. Evamy.—Mrs. Collins, relict of the 
Rev. Mr. C. we 
At Winchester, Mr. Leek. He was found 
Hanging in his wash-hoase. The verdict of 
the coroner’s jury was——-Lunacy, 
At King’s Worthy, Nicholas and Elizabeth 
Light, whuse united ages amounted to 164 
‘years. They had been married near70 years, 
and were interred at the same time in one_ 
grave. E 
At Carisbrook, Isle of Wight, Capt. Ogle, 
of the 58th regiment. 
At Bishop’s Stoke, Colson Barnard, esq. 
At Portsmouth, Mr. Lewis Young, at- 
forney.—Mrs. Baker, wife of Mr. B. sen.— 
Mr. Thomas, Binsted, many yeats master 
carpenter in the Ordnance department at this 
port.—Mr. H. Moses.—-Mis. Halsey, oe 
of Robert H. esq. of Chichester, alady of 
tensive charity. bs. 
At Monk Sherborne, Mrs. 
relict of fohn D esq. : 
At Worthy, nearsWinchester, Miss Sarah 
Page, daughter of Daniel P. esq. late barrack- 
master in “that city, D4. 
At Andover, Mrs. Haris, wife of Mr. H. 
of the White Swan inn. 
Helen Bene. 
WILTSHIRE. 
Married.] The Rev. Mark Wilks, of Sa- 
lisbury to Mrs: Jackson, relict of the Rev; 
Mr. J. of Warminster. Sees 
At Trowbridge, Mr. Marsh, to Miss Mary 
Usher, of Phillips Norton. 
At Devizes Mr. Ing, to Miss Sophia God- 
den. 
At Chippenham, Mr. Thomas Bailey, to 
Mrs. Tipper, late of the White Hart inn. . 
Died.] At Chippenham, Mr. H. Witts.— 
Mrs. Tarrant.—-Mrs. Lawes, of the Angel 
inn. ; 
At Everley, Miss G. A. Berguer, eldest 
daughter of the Rev. Mr. B. rector of that 
place. 
At Corsham, Mr. Earle. 
At Devizes, Mrs. Clare, mother of John 
€. esq. one of the coroners for the county. 
At Bradford, Thomas Palmer, the only 
child of the Rea. . Dr. Smith. 
At Warininsier, Miss Susannah Hooper, 
At Pitton, Mrs Jane Miles. 82, 
BERKSHIRE. 
A friend to his native town, anxious to pro- 
cure some easy in-door employment for the 
aged, the sick, and the eitn poor of three 
parishes of Reading, has purchased about 
30,00G0lbs. of cotton wool in the seed, which 
isto be hand picked under such. regulations 
and condicions as may be determined on by 
a committee appointed for that purpose. 
Married |] At Reading, Mr. John Ham- 
blin to Miss Mary Ann Midwinter, 
Wetlts hive—Berkshire— Somersetshireé. 
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Died.]. At Windsor, Mrs. Buckle, relict of 
Admiral B. 
At Mount Pleasant, near Reading, Mrs. 
Ovey, wife of Thomas O. esq. 
At Lady Place, Harley, of an apoplectic 
seizure, in the 88th year of his age, Gustavus 
Adolphus Kempenfelt, esq. brother of the 
late Amairal Kempenfelt, who was lost in the 
Royal George, at Spithead, in the year 1782. 
Though so far advanced in years, he retained 
-his ‘faculties and cheerful disposition to the 
day of his death: he was pious and charitable, 
and largely contributed to most of the pub 
lic charitable instittttions, among which he 
has bequeathed by will upwards of 11,000]. 
The remainder of his property goes to his re- 
lation, Richard Troughton, esq. of the cus= 
tom-house. 
At Maidenhead, Mr. William Wickens, 
78. He was bred to the medical profession, 
which he practised with success in the early 
part of life, but he had long reiinquished it 
for the enjoyment of competence, and the hae 
bits of usefuland studious enquiry. 
At Newbury, Miss Gray. 
At Wallingford, Mr. James Flamank, 30, _ 
At Hungerford, Thomas Rosier, an illites’- 
rate labouring man; who, by the artful mae _ 
nagement of a reflecting mirror, and exhibit-- - 
ing various figures, obtained the appellation 
of a conjuror, and was frequently consulted 
by the superstitious and ignorant, to discover } 
lost goods, and predict future events.) 
SOMERSETSHIRE, 
et 
A singular custom which time has ees : 
down to us prevails at St. Briaval’s,.imthis 
county, On Whitsunday, several baskets 
full of bread and cheese, cut into small Squares 
of about an inch each, are brought into the 
church, and immiediately after divine: service 
is ended, the churchwardens, or some? other 
persons, take ‘them into the galleries, from - 
whence their contents are thrown among the 
congregation, who have a grand scramble for 
it in the body of the church, which occasions 
as great a tumult and uproar, as the amuses 
ments: of a village wake; the inhabitants 
being always extremely anxious in their «ate: 
tendance at worship on this day. 
away wood from three thousand acres of cop- 
pice land, in Hudknolls and the 
for which every nee anes is assessed 2d, 
The custom ” 
is held for the purpose of préserving to the: 
poor of the parishes of St. Briaval’s and Hew: 
elsfield, the right of cutting and carrying 
a 
Meend ; and’ 
(formerly 1d. ) to buy the bread and cheese ~ 
given away on this occasion. 
Married.} At Bathwick Chore, near 
Bath, the Rev. W. Coningham, vicar of’ 
Dunamon, and prebendary of Flphin, to Doe 
rothea, youngest daughter of the late J: 
Maughan, esq. of the city of York. 
At Clifton, W. G. Stephens, esq. of Hen- 
bury, to Mrs, Racster,widow of George R.esq. 
At Bath, Mr. Parker, furgeon of Melk- 
sham, Wilts, to Harrier, youngeft caughter 
of 
