Tetbury Races of 1759 at Tetbury Course
The Tetbury races move to July on the 12th and 13th with purses of fifty pounds for four year olds and five and six year olds. It details weights, heats, entry fees, certificates, and conditions, including drinking and ball events, with James Dalby authorized to enter horses at Tetbury Markee Hall. Thomas Chester, Esq. is the steward.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ipswich
Suffolk
Sanwel Kent
White Horse Tavern
Great White Horse
Bern
Thomas Staunton
Rosert Evear
Bulmarsh-Heath
Reading
Berks
Richard Fisher
Crown-Inn
Oxford
Tetbury
Bridie
Luc
James Dalby
Teebury
White Harr
Thomas Chester
Mail From Holland and Military Movements Reported
A May 24 dispatch from Schurtz notes signals from Marshal Dam and questions time constraints. Vienna reports May 30 indicates the King of Prussia near Landshut assembling forces at Grand Glogau to oppose the Ruffians. Nuremberg entry June 2 mentions the Empire Army marching toward Eslang.
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Yeterday
Holland
Marshal Dam
Schurtz
Ponnania
Vienna
Prussia
Landshut
Grand Glogau
Nuremberg
Empire
Eslang
Forcheim 3 and Marches Not Quick Amid Flickering Fronts
June reports from Erlangen and other towns describe Austro Prussian hostilities with the Empire's forces moving near Bernéck and Hoff. General Kleefeld among prisoners. Prussians pursue to Barenthlus while Prince Henry delays in Saxony. Rumors say a French invasion of Heffin frontier with 70 000 troops, and Havre de Grace expands to supply Dunkirk with 200 boats ready for 7,000 troops aboard to threaten Britain or Ireland.
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Erlangen
Empire
Count‘Palfyaireth Mor
Bernéck
Gefrees
Hoff
Kleefeld
Barenthlus
Prince of Stolberg
Franconia
Prince Henry
Silesia
Brandenburgh
Egra
Heffin
Gieslen
Holtzdorff
Marburgh
Catfel
Altena
Saxony
Impor
Henry
Lower
Lusatia
Mifnia
Petersburgh
Soitikolt
Fermor
Paris
Havre de Grace
Dunkirk
Brest
Rochefort
Great Britain
Ireland
PORT NEWS Falmouth June 1 Turpenny Blewit Sailed London
Port news reports at Falmouth on June 1 the Turpenny and Blewit sailing for London under Convoy of the Diligence. A gale drove the Fox Packet Boat and a coal vessel ashore but caused little damage. Deal June 14 notes the Wolf Sloop sailing to the Westward and ships remaining in the Downs including Chesterfield Preston Stag Boreas Mercury Gram pus Sloops and twenty four transports with outward-bound ships as before.
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Falmouth
London
Fox
N. W. Deal
Downs
Chesterfield
Preston
Stag
Boreas
Mercury
Grampus
Attacks on Havrecegrace and Naval Movements Reported
A London dispatch notes bomb ketches fitting to strike Havrecegrace boats, while a Betsey vessel from Maryland reports distant warships near Plymouth. The Tyger captures Bon Augure. French ships voyage from Brest to Martinico and British squadrons gather near St Helena and the Cape. Militia reform urged as a national defense, with officials naming Counsellor Jones as New Jersey chief justice. Updates on deaths, ship arrivals, and a fatal milk accident among Hatfield Broad Oak residents accompany the broader war news.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Havrecegrace
Betsey
Brooke
Maryland
Plymouth
North America
Bon Augure
Pierick
Rochelle
Brest
Martinico
Tyger
Burrows
Liverpool
Jamaica
Achilles
Syren
Zephir
Cape
St. Helena
Guiney
France
Jones
Middle Temple
New Jersey
America
Welbourne
Linolnthire
Welby
Richard Welby
Foremerly
Denton
Kendal
Hatfield Broad Oak
Essex
Grantham
Hland
Jutland
Far Reach of Naval Actions and Local Notices in Old York Ledger
An old London Gazette style summary notes French ships near Pondicherry, with Admiral Pocock, plus a timber theft claim from Cisterna forest. It lists officers killed or wounded under General Barington, and local civic items including mayoral and sheriff changes, church livings, marriages, a York clergy death and estate bequests, a banker's death, and a fire damaging two houses in a Loudon court area.
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Mauritius
Pocock
Pondicherry
Rome
Cisterna
Barington
England
Claveting
Francis Flower
Ely
Matthe Dickinson
Ireland
Hampon
Middlesex
Stevens
Abraham Newman
Moss Davison
Fenchurch Street
Lutter
Davison
Alderman Rawhusen
York
Jaques Sierne
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Boscawen and Fox
Madras
China
Pitt
Bengal
Hardwicke
Warren
Ceylon
Madagascar
Vengeur
Candee
Table Land
Rip T
Adionz
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