1805. | 
74, Mr. T. Smith, an eminent farmer and 
grazier. 
At Wellingore, in the 74th year of his 
age, Mr. Wells ; and a few days afterwards 
his fon, T. Wells, efq. formerly a lieute- 
nant in the 7oth regiment. 
At Lincoln, aged go, Mrs. Jermond, wife 
of Mr. Jermond.—At a very advanced age, 
Mrs. Whichcote, reli€t of the late Rev. Dr, 
Whichcote. 
LEICESTERSHIRE, 
Married.] At Hinckley, Mr. James Dobbs, 
of Birmingham, to Mifs Catherine Hamilton; 
and the fame day, Mr. William ‘Turner, 
printer and bookfeller, in Hull, to Mifs So- 
phia Hamilton, daughter of Mr. Hamilton, 
comedian —Mr. George Woodcock, hofier, 
to Mifs Atkins. 
Dieds] AtLeicefter, Mrs. Newby, widow, 
late of the Stag and Pheafant-inn.-—Wary 
Cooper, eldeft daughter of S$. Cooper, of the 
Three Cranes-inn —At a, very advanced age, 
Mrs. Phipps. —On board the Carysfert frigate, 
of the yellow fever, lieutenant John Bellamy 
of the royal navy, fon of the late alderman 
Bellamy. This gallant young man, who was 
with Lord Duncan, in his celebrated victory 
over the Dutch, had been in much other def- 
perate fervice, and was promoted on account 
of his great perfonal courage and nautical abi- 
lities. 
John Sturgefs, gent. one of the chief con- 
ftables of the Hundred of Guthlaxton. 
Ar Antigua, Captain Thomas Winttanley, 
of the 7oth regiment of foot, third fon of 
Clement Winftanley, efg. of Braunfton. 
At Whitftone, Mifs Allen, eldeft daughter 
ef Mr, James Allen, farmer and grazier. 
At the houfe of Mr. Buzzard, in Lutter- 
worth, aged 80, Mrs. Elizabeth Marfton, 
late of Mountforrel. 
At his father’s houfe, in Oakham, Rutland- 
fire, Mr. William Tacy, of Loughborough. 
He was a member of the Rutland yeomanry 
wavalry, during the whole of the late war, 
and of the Loughborough volunteer infantry 
during the prefent. 
STAFFORD6HIHE. 
Died.| At Madeley, Mr. Samuel Stretch, 
aged 72, who may with juftice be ranked 
in the catalogue of eccentric mifers. He 
was a native of Market Drayton, in Shrop- 
fhire, and the early part of his life was {pent 
as a private in the army, in which capacity 
he experienced fome fervice, in fighting the 
battles of his country. For a length of iime 
he refided in an odfcure dwelling at Made. 
ley, into which, ic is faid, he has not for 
‘many years admitted either male or female, 
and from the beft accounts we can give, it was 
indeed a dwelling of complete wretchednefs, 
It is about fifteen years fince he purchafed 
a load of coals, a part of which were left 
at the time of his death. His chief employ 
was to go about to the adjacent towns, Carrying 
letters and fmall parcels, and performing 
errands for his neighbours, His perfen be- 
Leicefterfhire —Stafforapire. 
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fpoke the moft abje& penury 3 he ufually ap- 
peared in an old flouched hat and tattered gar- 
ments, fcarcely fufficient to cover his naked 
nefs, with a ragged bag hung over his fhoul- 
der, in which he moftly carried a litle parf- 
ley, or fome other kind of herb, the produce 
of his garden , thefe he generally offered as 
2 prefent at the different places where he had 
to do bufinefs, and when accepted, he took 
care to deal them. out with a very {paring 
hand. This fhew of generofity, together 
with his eccentric addrefs and converfation, 
ufually produced him a tenfold return. On 
fearching his tattered fatchel .after his deathy 
it was found to contain old bones and fhoe~ 
foles,. pieces of paper, &<c. which articles he 
ufually colleéted in his peregrinations ; his 
ftock of linen confifted of two old fhirts and a 
pair of fheets; in his hut were found feveral 
articles of filver plate, &c. His death was 
occafioned by a violent cold, brought on by 
his falling into a ditch in a flate of intoxica- 
tion on his reture from Newcaftle, the Satur- 
day preceding. By his penurious difpofition, 
he had amaffed a confiderable fum of money 
{exclufive of a lofs of five hundred pounds,- 
which he experienced a few years ago), a part 
of which he has left to purchefe an additional 
bell for the church at Madeley, and an annual 
falary for it to be rung every night at nine 
o’clock during the fummer months, and eight 
during the winters a chandelier for the 
charch 3 a bell for the ufe of the Free-fchool 5 
sl. per annum, towards the organift’s falary 
forthat place, and a like annual amount for 
the Drayton organi® ; a further fum to be 
applied to the enlarging and repairing the 
Madeley alms houfe, and clothing and edu- 
cating two poor children, until of a proper 
age to be put apprentice; and to his relations, 
two fhillings and fixpence each. He has 
nominated fix executors; J. Crewe, efg. of 
Crewe-hall; the Rev. Offley Crewe, of Mux- 
on; the Rev. B. Stoer, of Madeley; thie 
minifer of Drayton; Mr. Wilkinfon, of 
Madeley-manor ; and Mr. Laylor, of Made- 
tey-heath. 
Aged 17, Mr. Clover of Longridge. 
At Burton on Trent,» aged 87, Mrs. 
Downes, a maiden lady.— ‘ats. Harrifon, re-. 
lit of the late Mr. Jofeph Harrifon, fenior.- 
At Wolverhampton, aged 67, Catharine 
WNickins, a maiden lady, daughter of Catha- 
rine Nickins, late of Tettenhall, inthis coun. 
ty, who died on the 18th December, 1795, 
in the 82d year of her age, and 55th of her 
widowhood. That lady before her marriage 
was Catherine Hale; one of the daughters af 
Gabriel Hale, who was the youngeft fon of 
Robert Hale, aad which Robert was the eldeft 
fon of that truly diftinguifhed character Sir 
Matthew Hale, Lord Chief fuftice of the 
King’s bench. ‘The above Catherine Nickins 
has, by her will given ta the Infirmary for 
the county of Stafford, one hundred pougds 
Old South-fea ftockz, and three hundred gounds 
fterling after her fitter, Mrs, Ann Mees’s de- 
cealege- 
