1810.) Buckingham—Hertford—Bedford—Northampion. 
Died.] At Souldern Cottage, Mrs. Gabell, 
relict of the Rev. Henry G. rector of Stand- 
Jake in this county, 71. 
At ii Kesiah, wife of Mr. Richard 
Lardner, 71.—Mr. William Osman, 43. 
At Oxford, Mr. Wareham.—Mrs. Mea- 
dowcroft, wife of Mr. John M. 54.—Nirs. 
Green, many years nurse at the Radcliffe 
Infirmary.—Mirs. Joyce Corbet, 86.—Maria, 
eldest daughter of the Rev. Joseph Parsons, 
rector of Holwell, Bedfordshire. —Ann, wife 
of Mr. William Marsh.—Mary Ann, daughe 
ter of Mr. Barratt, 16.—Mr. G, Hancock, a 
partner in the firm of Ward, Holland, and 
Hancock, coal: merchant.-Mr. Loder, senior 
member of the corporation, who served the 
oifice of chamberlain in 1764. 
At Beckley, Mrs. Fruin, wife of Mr. Wil- 
liam F. 
At Weoketdcls: Mrs. 
post office, 
BUCKINGHAMSHIRE. 
Married. | 
of London, to Miss Hawkins. 
At Aylesbury, Mr. Curtis, to Miss Eliz. 
Turpin. 
Mr. James Fisher, son of Mr. William F, 
ef Aylesbury, to Miss Winter, of Long Cren- 
don. 
Died.] At Shardeloes, W. D. T. Drake, 
esq. M.P. for Agmondesham. He was first 
€lected in 1795, and sat during four parlia- 
nents. 
At Hartwell, of a dropsy, after having 
lingered several years ina very bad state of 
Lewngton, of the 
health, the Countess de Lisle, consort of 
Louis XVIIL. titular king ef France. She dis- 
played in her Jast moments that firmness, 
piety, and resignation, which are the charac- 
teristics of the house of Bourbon. Wer death 
bed was attended by the Count de Lisle, and 
all the princes and princesses of the royal 
blood, of whom she took the most affectionate 
feave. 
The Rev. Alexander Cromclholne, rector 
of Sherington and Beachampton, 7 4. 
HERTFORDSHIRE. 
Married.| At Ware, Mr. William Payne, 
eof Water Hall, Suffolk, to Elizabeth, second 
daughter of the late Mr. John Cobham. 
Died.} At Bushey, Mrs. Capper, widow 
of R.C. esq, 
At Theobald’s Park, Mrs. Taylor, 77. 
At Bishops Stortford, Mr. Stephen Negus, 
maltster, aged83, an eccentric character, al- 
. though possessed of considerable property, 
living in dirt and celibacy, inhabiting a little 
tenement, having for a long time scarcely a 
utensil to use, and his sleeping room, or ra- 
ther hole, being half filled with dirty bottles, 
wood, and an infinite variety of lumber. A 
zealous nonconformist and most resolute whig, 
he signalised himself at the elections for the 
town and county; astride an immense 
charger, himself a Hercules, with a visage 
sirongiy marked, grasping in his hand a huge 
At Buckingham, Mr. Bennett,. 
ATT 
pole of enormous length; he on one. occasion 
struck terror into the hearts of enémies- 
Success having crowned the whigs, 
hero gave vent to his joyjin a truly Cromwel- 
lian strain: The Lord of Hosts be praised ! 
these tony devils he hath delivered into our 
hands! glory to God! By his particular de- 
sire the writér of this account is to have in- 
scribed on his tombstone, ¢* Here lies a true 
whig, and a staunch friend to the Plumer fa 
mily.” 
BEDFORDSHIRE. 
Married.) At Turvey, Mr. Thomas Small, 
of Bedford, to Anne, second daughter of the 
late Mr. T. Pincherd. 
At Ampthill, Mr. P. Small, surgeon, to 
Mary, only daughter of the late G. Exton, 
esq. 
Died.| At Bedford, the ee John Hook, 
master of the free grammar school. Mrs. 
Allison, relictof Mr. George A. 
NORTHAMPTONSHIRE. 
There is now living in the gardens belongs’ 
ing to the Bishop’s Palace, at Peterborough, a 
land tortoise, which is ascertained to have 
been there 200 years and upwards. The up- 
per shell is about twelve or fourteen inches 
long, and about nine broad, the neck has all 
the appearance of extreme old age: the sight 
of one of its eyes is gone, the other seems 
bright and lively ; the inside of the mouth, 
as well as the tongue, is a full pink colour 5 
it has no teeth, but masticates with its gums, 
which are of a bony substance ; the legs and 
feet are covered (like the head) with scales, 
and are so strong that it will walk, or rather, 
crawl, witha considerable weight on its back, 
and seemingly with ease. In the early part 
of summer it in general feeds upon lettuces 5 
and when the freit becomes ripe, it crawls 
under the gooseberry bushes, and picks off 
what is on the lower branches, and the frui¢ 
it cannot reach is amply supplied by the fre- 
quent company and the gardeners, fromi whose 
hands it receives wish great gentleness what 
is given it. Towards Michaelmas, and some- 
times earlier, it buries itself in the earthy 
where it remains till the following spring ; in 
a few days after it hath made its annual dee 
scent, by finding the depth with a stick, 2 
tolerably accurate judgment can be formed of 
the mildness or severity of the ensuing win- 
fer.),.;(ihis extraordinary animal is about 
twenty pounds in weight. 
Marred.] At Daventry, Mr. J. Smith, of 
Rugby House, Warwickshire, to Miss S, 
Cowley, youngest daughter of C, C. esg. of 
Wilton.—Francis Doxatt, esq. of Landon, to 
Selina, youngest daughter of Cliarles Wat- 
kins, esq. 
At Dallington, Mr. Allen, chemist and 
druggist, of Northampton, to Miss Harriet 
Earl. 
At Kettering, Mr. W. Stevenson, of Med- 
bourn, Leicestershire, to Miss L. Vice. 
At mass E. J. Compton, esq. of Water 
Ne ewton 
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