Canterbury Races Set for Late July under Kent Sessions
Kent county notices set July dates for Quarter Sessions in July. Canterbury races are postponed to July with the King's Plate for horses under eleven years old and a County Subscription Plate of Fifty Pounds. Subscriptions, age certificates, and rules of the King's Plate govern entry. Daily assemblies, race-week grounds rules, and liquor booth restrictions accompany the program. Notables include Duke of Dorset appointments, and local feeders such as Mr Harry Bennet and Mr William Blunden.
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Kent
Canterbury
Barhdm- Downs
Marcor
Harry Bennet
Guy Feeder
William Blunden
Heber
Wanage Races 1766 Purse Details at Letcomb-Downs
An 1766 notices two day racing event at Letcomb-Downs near Wan tage on July 22 and 23 with purses for four and six year olds. Entries close July 16 at Alfreds Head Inn Wan tage. Fees include entrance three guineas or five at post and half a guinea to clerk. owner of winners pays two guineas next year. Restrictions on weights and qualifications. booths liquor sales prohibited. late venue details. Heber
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Berkshire
Letcomb-Downs
Wanhtage
Ita Cary
Alfred’s Head Inn
Wantage
N.B
Alfred’s Head
Boar Inns
Heber
Stratford Spon
Noblemen and Gentlemens
Horfes
Exeter Races 1766 Purse Contests On July 16 and 17
Notice of July 16 and 17 horse races at the Plymouth Inn Devon with purses of fifty pounds each. Conditions include weights for age, entry fees, and the rule that winners of early heats may skip the third. Also a performance of Daphnis and Amaryllis on July 17 in Exeter under Mr Langdon.
Stratford Spon AVON RACES 1766 Noblemen Subscription Purse
The notice describes Avon races on a Tuesday in August 1766 for a fifty pound purse with weight conditions and entries by subscription. It details running rules, fees, weights by age, entry times at Mr Bruce's King's Head, and stipulates qualifications, penalties, and the steward the Rt. Hon. Earl of Plymouth.
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Hill
Baldwin
Bookfeller
Paternofter Row
Ridley
St. James’s Screet
Oxford Races 1766 Purse and Stakes at Port Meadow
The notice advertises three Oxford races on Port Meadow near Oxford city from August 16 to 18. It outlines purses of fifty pounds for four mile heats for six to eleven year olds, conditions for entrants, entry fees, and prize breakdowns, plus a Ladies Purse and related requirements. It mentions entry at the Flower-de-Luce Inn and daily provisions at the Great Pie in Holywell.
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Oxford
Port Meadow
Flower-de-Luce
Town Hall
Lewes Races 1766 King s Plate Entries Lewes Sussex
A historic notice from Lewes Sussex announces King s Plate races for horses mares and geldings up to six years old on August 9 1766 with entry at Verrall s Coffee House and Duke of Newcastle to settle age disputes. Additional plates offered August 8 and 9 with entry fees and weights listed, horses to prove age and run under King s Plate rules.
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Lewes
Sussex
Verrall’s
Leinz
Verrall
Ivery Horfe
Mark from Holland and Francey to compliment the King
News from Warsaw Vienna and Berlin report arrivals and envoys, with discussions on royal support and church matters. A Prussian general and governors are noted, along with Paris sentencing of alleged offenders and Bougainville seeking royal permission to sell uninhabited land.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Holland
Francé
Warsaw
Marquis de Canflans
Berlin
Rath ‘Idstant
Gustavus Bayishaw van Munchau
Regiment of Foot
Spandau, &c
Konigsberg
Baron de Tettau
Hague
Prince Stadtholder
Prince of Nassau
States General
Paris
Picady
Picardy
Abbeville
M. de Bougainville
Malonines
East-India
Baron Law de Lawiston
India
Cuandernagor
Scyques
Lahors
Cachemire
Abdaly
Patanesy
Delhy
Tamerlane
Delby
Gobinefingue
Henry Conway Accepts Address and Funds Picture for Faneuil Hall
In Boston May 5 a polite letter from Henry Conway one of King’s principal secretaries of state accepts the thanks from the metropolis for Otis’s recent patriotic Parliament speech in favor of the British colonies. Conway also signals a plan to favor the town by lending his portrait to be hung in Faneuil Hall.
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America
Boston
New England
Henry Conway
Otis
Faneuil Hall
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Ipswich
Suffolk
Bury
Kj. Rous
J. Bors
J. Dodsley
Pall-Mall
Exeter
Hall Down
Devon
Somerset
Cornwall
Plymouth Inn
St. Thomas the Apostle
N. B
Exon
Langdon
Earl of Plymouth
Great Pic
Holywell
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