Horse Races and Plate Rules Published in Royton
A long 1767 racing notice outlines horses entered for multiple plates, entry fees, weights, and eligibility. It details two four mile heats and other races, with conditions on age, prior wins, and class. entries via the Red Lion at Royton. Subscriptions, clocks, and steward judgments are specified for race days and gatherings.
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Hunters Place
Red Lion
Royton
Pierge Jennings
John Ratcliffe
Penitence Punishment at St Pauls Cross for Sir Peckfall Brockas
An old notice records Sir Peckfall Brockas being publicly penanced on Sunday October 24 in the year of James I. The knight appeared in a white sheet with a staff, confessed to numerous offenses with many women, and was accompanied by 40 armed followers who sought a dinner with the Lord Mayor after the penance.
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Ava
James
Peckfall Brockas
St. Paul's Cross
Gardner
Acarpet
A. Nicholson
St. Peter's College- University
Wineham
Kent
Thomas Burrows
Liverpoole
Greenland
Bath
Shepton-Mallet
Compton-Martin
Murer
Bristol
Richard Farr
William Barnes
Stapleton Church
Thomas Smith
Jarrit Smith
Jenny Whitchurch
Joh Whitchurch
Stapleton
Worcester
Edward Higgins
Frenchay
Reading
Thomas
William Bryant
Steptoe
Plantation news from Charles Town and ports 1760s
Long colonial market and shipping notes report rice prices at 608 per hundred and live reports from Charles Town, Pensacola, and New Orleans. Spanish troop movements, Irish settlement relief, hemp rope making, and wreck discoveries are detailed alongside local deaths, trials, and executions in Liverpool, Bath, Bristol, and Worcester.
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Charles Town
South Carolina
Seymour
Furk’s Island
Pensacola
New Orleans
Mississippi
Spain
Sterling
New-York
Darrell
St. Vincent’s
West Indies
Dominica
St. Vincent's
Sol. Sterling
Philadelphia
Millsippi
England
Dawson
Providence
Santee
Francis Kinloch
Indico
Storm destroys houses and bridge parapet in Hawick disaster
Edinburgh reports from Hawick say in the great storm three houses above the bridge were carried away and the east arch parapet broken. Adjacent east end structures were washed away with all contents. Two houses and the Duke of Buccleugh's corn mill also destroyed. Dr. William Sinclair died at his Thurso residence on July 28.
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Edinburgh
Hawick
Roxburgh
Duke of Buccleugh
William Sinclair
Thurso
Derby and Norwich Assizes Report Death Sentences and Pardons
At Derby on August 12 Samuel Kindar for horse theft and Henry Wilmot for highway robbery were sentenced to death but reportedly reprieved. Also charged with forging a promissory note, Charles Pleasant was continued to next Assizes. In Norwich on August 13 the city county Assizes ended with four men for sheep stealing and horse stealing given death sentences, while rioters Robert Royce, John Crawforth, James Fleming and James Codner were transported for life.
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Country News
Derby
Samuel Kindar
Henry Wilmot
Charles Pleasant
Herbert
Wilson
Norwich
John Daughney
Francis Ward
John Gilding
Cristopher Dawson
Philip Bacchus
Robert Royce
John Crawforth
James Fleming
James Codner
Port of Deal Ship Movements and Arrivals Update
Shipping news from Deal lists several vessels arriving and sailing for the River and various destinations. Names include Breakmount Aird Granada frigate Whitewood Royal Briton Darling William Mary of Carron Philadelphia and many more with origins in Africa Jamaica St. Kitts Barbados Antigua Bermuda and Europe. Winds west and south west driven by maritime traffic.
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Port New
Deal
Downs
Aird
Africa
Granada
Whitewood
Granades
Royal Briton
Darling
William
Tomlinson
Jamaica
Mary of Carron
Stuart
Philadelphia
Martin
Werry
Leghorn
Arabella
Bradshaw
Oporto
Weatheral
M'Laurin
Falmouth
Brown
Cadiz
Exeter
Phillips
Greenland
Mary
Drummond
Nevis
Leeds
Anderson
Virginia
New Recovery
Tristram
Southampton
Douglas
Ashington
St. Kitt’s
Hannah
Disass Willson
Rhode Island
Queen
Prince of Wales
Cox
Plymouth
Spence
London
Ditto
Gordon
South Carolina
Ceres
Bulman
Gardner
Hull
Ty da Piedade
Medoens
Bahia
Itto
Polly, Thompson
Maryland
Peter and
Stewards
Prince of Orange
Allen
Cork
Exbury
Wolfe
Carolina
James
Peter
Turner
Corunna
Lisbon
Friendship
Frayne
Nancy
Johnson
Hope
Jeffard
Antigua
Prince Frederick
Watts
Belfast
Butler
Dubin
Peggy
Morris
Waterford
Wrey
Burrel
Ancona
Good Intent
Canada
Alicant
Jersey
Lawrence
New York
Armsbury
Stevens
North Carolina
Lucca
Glasford
Ark
Hodges
Bristol
Abigaw
Bolton
Weymouth
Smith
Moncrief
Cowes
Ann
Dorsdell
Dantzick
Polly
Lancaster
Yarmouth
Samuel
Newman
Koninzsberg
Harwich
Union
Coombes
St. George
Tobin
Marquis of
Rockingham
Cochran
London Packet
Billings
New England
Albion
Fletcher
Minorca
Betty
Wilson
Rose
Brett
Hazlefoot
Tarbot
Dover
Proclamation Records a September Session Prorogation
Extract from a Boston letter dated June 29 reports the Governor proroguing the Great and General Court to September 2. It notes acts granting 113,001 pounds for the Governor’s support and 125,850 pounds to redeem government securities due in 1768.
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London
Boston
New England
Great and General Court
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Maidstone
Joseph Gee
Gainsburgh
Lincoln
John Blanchard
Thorne
Yorkshire
John Hutton
KLNG
R. Walker
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King’s Arms
Sessions House
R. James
Sea Service
J. Newbery
St. Paul's Church-Yard
Great Britain
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Covent Garden
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County of
Surry
Houlder
L. Hawes
W. Clarke
R. Collins
Paternoster Row
Beaume de Vie
Fife
W. Nicoll
St. Paul's Church
T- Becker
Strand
Durham
Charing-Crofss Richardson
Co- Royal Exchange
R. Davis
Piccadilly
W. Flexney
Holbgurn
Nicoll
Paris
France
Turlington
Martha Wray
William Wray
Robert Turlington
Mary Sobp
Birchin-Lane
Turlington and Wray
Marcha Wray
Mary Sopp
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