Swaffham Races 1767 Plates and Entry Details
In Swaffham Norfolk on September 22 1767 a plate of fifty pounds is offered for four year old colts and fillies with weights and heats. Subsequent days include further events for three year olds and six year olds with entry rules payments and prize conditions. All horses must be entered at Market Cross by September 19 and disputes decided by subscribers. start times are one o clock daily.
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Swaffham
Norfolk
Yuesday
Market Cross
R. Walker
England
Ireland
Scotland
America
King’s Arms
Sessions House
Old Baily
Borrias
Dr. Walker
Jesuits
Thresters
I, Wessels and Co
Bennet
Wittram Tuber
White Waltham
Maidenhead
Berks
Pafcare
Houshhold
Orkney Arms
Maidenhead Bridge
Windsor
Reading 3
Bennett
Smart’s
High Holbourn
London
Leicester meeting for infirmary plans at Three Danes
Noblemen and gentlemen of Leicester plan a Thursday meeting on September 17 at ten o clock in the forenoon. The gathering at the Three Danes aims to discuss further matters related to the infirmary.
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Leicester
Debts urged to Joseph Gee estate at Gainsburgh
Lincolnshire linen manufacturer Joseph Gee of Gainsburgh died leaving debts. Creditors must pay to John Blanchard surgeon at Thorne Yorkshire or to John Hutton attorney at Gainsburgh by Michaelmas day or be sued. Also all who hold claims must send accounts to receive satisfaction.
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John Larking
Hadlow
Joseph Gee
Gainsburgh
Mary Lear of Motcombe Leaves No Heirs Seaward
Notice to any child or grandchild of Mary, wife of Joan Lear and late of Motcombe Dorset, Labourer, daughter of Thomas Cook, that if living they may claim by applying to John Brickle of Shafton Dorset or William Webley of Chancery Lane London for any possible advantage from her estate following her death after absences in Portsmouth and abroad with a Serjeant in the army.
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Mary
Joan Lear
Motcombe
Dorset
Thomas Cook
Portsmouth
Germany
John Brickle
Shafton
William Webley
Chancery Lane
London
Mail from France reports shipwreck insanity and slave arrivals
A Lifton vessel arrived with letters to London after two months at sea. its captain went insane after shore leave. Paris reports include 63 slaves aboard the Sincere frigate, and 125 more slaves from the Union voyage. A storm near Mantes damages 15 houses at Limay and 10 at Buchelay with harvest fears. A gunpowder accident at Lille wounds two and kills one.
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France
Lifton
O'Hara
Senegal
London
Paris
Count Durfort
Marseilles
Limay
Buchelay
Mantes-le- Ville
Reighbrane
Lille
Re States-General
Flanders
Privy Counsellor Harvey and Arthur Upton Named
Dublin reports the Right Rev and Hon Dr Harvey Bishop of Cloyne and Arthur Upton Esq inducted into Privy Counsel. In Kilkenny riotous groups seized four tons of hay from Castleblunden and Wetland, destroying it by dumping into Watkin's Lough. A fierce chase of smugglers near Dundrum ends with losses. a Gottenburgh sloop carrying tea and spirits is captured off Bray Head.
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Dublin
Harvey
Cloyne
Arthur Upton
Kilkenny
Castleblunden
Richard Laraffey
Patrick Costello
Watkin’s Lough
Ballough
Strangford
Dundrum
Gottenburgh
Geneva
Bray-Head
George Glover
E Q
Dunlary
York Malthon Letter Warns of Blunders Turning to Charity
A Malton letter laments past blunders that led to high rates while praising plans to divert horsewace money to the Poor. It notes town officers will curb gambling and debauchery, hoping to exchange vice for virtue and lower burdens on households. Leeds reports lower corn prices and hopes for affordable wheat, as 7th Dragoons were reviewed on Chapel Town Moor. A Rochdale baize-maker is jailed in York for forging bills. Canterbury’s Maidstone Affizes end with seven death sentences for burglary and highway robbery.
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Country News
York
Malton
Maltuz
Leeds
Chapel-Town Moor
Howard
Rochdale
Lancashire
New Inn
York Castle
Canterbury
Maidstone
Joseph Banks
William Thomas
Arteph Budd
James Howard
Ward
Day
William Batton
William Hartzy
Town Judge Reprimands Banks and Colleagues
The judge before leaving the town reprimanded Banks Batton Hartley and Elizabeth Brownfeld for theft. He deferred execution for three others while two others faced punishment, reflecting a varied set of outcomes across the accused.
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Elizabeth Brownfeld
Banks
Batton
Hartley
Brownfield
Plague Rumors Dismissed as Vessels Reach Bristol
Reports claim two ships with plague on board arrived at Bristol with healthy crews and cargoes in good order. The piece notes arrivals from Ostend, pilot transfer at Dover, and the goings on at court including appointments and social events.
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Bristol
Ostend
Dover
Prince William Henry
Duke of Newcastle
Lewes
Sussex
Bishopstone
Howland
Duke of Richmond
George Lenox
Earl of Northington
Grange
St. James’s
Earl of Egmont
Pall Mall
Rooke
Beaudin
Fleming
Burgoyne
Manby
Young
Cornwallis
Viscount Townshend
Ireland
Dublin
Corke
England
Gibraltar
Minorca
Paris
Duke of York
Duke of Praslin
Count de Guerchy
Count de Chatalet
France
Atlantic
Dennis Rolle
Florida
America
Philadelphia
New York
Canada
Floridas
Europe
Deane
Rochester
St. Leonard’s
Shoreditch
Fairchild
Royal Society
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Faldo Aspray
Currier
Bucks
John Tabor
Fox and Anchor
Charterhouse-Lare
James Jakes
Worthip-Street
Upper Moorfields
Mippieroy
Somerset
City of
Wells
Taunton
Somerton
Bridgwater
Langport
Middleton
N.B
King's Sedge Moor
Joseph Elderton
Salisbury
John Evered
Somersett
Samuel Slade
Dorchefir
Mel
Tyndale
Hale
Corn-Street
Fountain Inn
Mayo Higgins
Middletoy
Baker's Coffee
Exchange-Alley
Covent-Garven
Lewis
Ruffel-Street
Mir Berry
Manchester
Smyth
Hereford
Coventry
Meff
Chester
Mr. Key
Catin TV
Bath
J Phillott
Mott
J. Phillott
Anchor Inn
Stockport
Messrs
Messrs Gurnell, Hoare and Harman
Shephird
Unicorn
Covent-Garden
King
Green Man
Oxford Road
West Smithfield
Radclife
West
Johnson
Seven Stars
Vere-Street
Clare~ Marker
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