Canterbury Races Purse Details At Barham Downs 1760
On Barham Downs July 1st the King's Plate of one thousand guineas will be run for by any horse mare or gelding up to six years old. Heats and rules set by the Duke of Dorfer. Other events include a Fifty Pound County Subscription Plate on July 6th and City Plate on July 17th with entry requirements and prizes. Assemblies and public breakfasts daily.
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Canterbury
Barham Downs
de Grass
Bridge-Hill House
Duke of Dorfer
Heber
Bedford Races at Cow Meadow Near Bedford
A notice for three horse purses at Bedford on August 12 13 and 14 details entries at Market Cross with weights for horses aged four to fourteen hands. Purses total fifty pounds each with rules on weights entry fees and disputes overseen by the Duke of Bedford and local subscribers Sir George Osborn and John Bullock named.
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Bedford
Jockey Club
Newmarket
Market Cross
Duke of Bedford
George Osborn
John Bullock
Shop and Dwelling-House in Nottingham to Sell Stock
A shop and dwelling near the Hen-Crag in Nottingham, in the possession of Mr. James Huthwaite ironmonger, is offered for sale with the entire stock and house. The business has operated for over forty years, and inquiries may be made to Mr. James Huthwaite for details.
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Hen-Crag
Nottingham
James Huthiwaite
Finchie
N.B
James Huthwaite
Historic Chesham Bois estate seeks repair or building lease
For let is the capital mansion Chesham Bois near Amersham Bucks. The property sits near American Common with a turnpike road to London and offers a bowling green kitchen garden fruit trees and arable and meadow land totaling about thirty acres. The house stands near the church and is shielded by beech woods. Brick making lime burning facilities and farmyard space are available adjoining. Enquiries to Mr John Davis Chenies near Amersham.
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Cheham Bois
County of Bucks
Lord Cheyne
American Common
London
Amerilam
Chesham
Howe
Chesham Bois
Farrh
Ghalk
John Davis
Provisions for Horse Plate Entrants at Carnarvon Meeting
The notice sets conditions for Maiden Horseracing Plates allowing 21b fees for plates only if ages and qualifications are produced at entrance. Owners must subscribe 31, 8s, or double for each plate and run trials the evening before events. At least three reputed running horses must enter each plate, with disputes to be resolved by The Most Hon. the Marquess of Carnarvan or appointees in his absence.
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Carnarvan
Stewart
Sailings and naval notices from Corke and Dublin
News from Corke and Dublin report ships sailing from Limerick to New York with Palatines, and a Mary of Corke arrival from St Sebastian noting Bayonne privateers taking five prizes. English warships patrol the North Channel as London appoints Flood and Til dell to top posts while copper coin proposals and a mint debate surface in Ireland.
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Trelan D
Bayonne
St. Andeyo
Spain
Belfas
Tory
Scotch Islands
North Channel
Dublin
Funetz
Warden Flood
King’s Bench
Caulfield
Philip Tildell
John Gore
Conllicitor General
Anthony Forster
Ireland
England
Aberdeen Navy Bills Paid and Local Notices
Edinburgh June 18 Aberdeen Journal reports Navy Bill payments from the Prince Man of War totaling 1831 Sterling paid by Excise. Sailors sent money to wives and a son paid a mother. Also notes Janet MGregor of Cargarff dies aged 83 leaving many descendants. 40 attended her funeral. William Baillie of Lamington, son of the Lord President, dies.
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Edinburgh
Aberdeen Journal
Janet M‘gregor
Cargarff
William Baillie
Lamington
Tragic accident near South Dock ends in decapitation
In Liverpool on June 20 a young woman, Alice Smar lin, attempting to avoid a windmill blade, was struck and decapitated. Bristel is noted as the burial date.
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Country News
Liverpool
Alice Smarlin
South Dock
Jeff
Bristel
Knowle
Tun
Fragmented Civil War Quote Recalled in French Prisoner Accounts
A fragmentary OCR style passage references Bougre Auglois and others, describing a Centinel drawing his piece and firing as he attempted to repel an assumed escape. It notes differing representations of a Pris Affair by French prisoners.
Royal marriage and naval news from the 1760 trade winds
Reports from London note the marriage on the 7th of this month of the Prince of Beyra, eldest daughter of the King of Portugal, to her uncle Don Pedro with papal dispensation. A new Anglo Portuguese commercial treaty is hinted. Cadiz and Vigo gossip mention privateers, ship captures, and fleet movements in the Atlantic. the Biddeford Man of War reportedly cited a Mediterranean engagement with two English and three French men of war. Additional dispatches recount incidents near Annamaboo, slave trade concerns, and naval actions off Cape Palmas. Obituaries and local clerical notices close with marriages and deaths in England and Wales.
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London
Prince of
Beyra
Portugal
Don Pedro
England
Oporto
Vigo
Biddeford
Mediterranean
Cadiz
Groyne
Eagle
Knill
Bristol
Scilly
Dunkirk
Briere
Artus
Lauriers
Quebec
Moore
Bennett
Annamaboo
Samuel Linnecar
Talton
Walker
Middleton
Madox
Nefton
Stroud
Guiney
Chesterfield
Tahoe
Cape Palmas
Gold Coast
Scaife
Cape Coast
Mutter
Dick’s Cove
George M’kee
Phake
John Gabal
St. Antonis
Spain
Liverpool
Juno
Irvin
Montserrat
Coventry
Joseph
Billender
Pool
Carolina
Phillips
Plymouth
Mr. Freeman
Allington Wilde
Citiaen
Middlesex
John Eves
Norwich
Thomas Harvey
Efy
Rotherhith
John Matson
Cattle Alley
King
Bishopsgate-store
Barnard
Luton
Bedfordshire
Kempton
Hertfordshire
Eton School
Laft
Tower Hill
Jon Prestwood
Magjetty
Creech
Merchant-Taylors School
William Davis
Caermarthen
South Wales
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Harfes, Sc
Horfes, &c
Carr Horfes
Horfs
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