Tenant Rights and Lease Terms In 1849 Drayton Manor Letter
A Drayton Manor notice outlines terms for tenant leases, favoring yearly agreements while offering limited long leases. It details rent payments, 4 percent on outlay for materials, and proposals for improvements funded by tenants or shared interest. The letter reiterates loyalty to longstanding tenancy practices and invites written agreements for unreimbursed improvements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alwayea
Drayton Manor
Peace Movement Spreads Across France and Britain
A Paris based French Olive Leaf edition promotes universal peace, exposing war’s folly with essays translated for continental papers. Notable figures on the Paris committee include M Victor Hugo and M Lamartine allies with London League links. Queen Victoria’s bloodless reign wish is cited amid calls to end pestilence and war. A Hull meeting aims to improve workers’ dwellings as Glasgow reports a gas explosion injuring three men.
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Paris
Elihu Burritt
America
League
London League
M. Victor Hugo
Abbé Depuerry
M. Zieglen
M. Carmenin
Ernest Lucan
France
M. de Lamartine
Ouvriers
Queen Victoria
Anticipated High Tides Fail to Meet Predictions
A Leamington prediction that the Moon in perigee would cause disastrous tides on Saturday and Sunday did not occur beyond typical spring-tide levels with offshore winds. Yarmouth and Lowestoft saw flooding, several ships ashore, and inland lowlands submerged, while Liverpool reported a quiet Mersey and limited pier damage. Railway lines at Yarmouth flooded areas reopened partially. Lowestoft branch to reopen. Ipswich noted unusually high tide Thursday night but no major flood.
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Leamington
Great Britain
Ireland
Yarmouth
Lowestoft
Liverroot
Liverpool
Fharet
George’s Baths
Mersey
Liverpool Albion
Eastern Counties Railway
Ipswich
Incendiary Fires Reported Across Several Parishes
A string of incendiary blazes reported to city insurance offices includes a large fire at E Smith’s farm near Girton with multiple barns and livestock lost and a reward offered. fires at Basingbourn Offord and Baddington with losses, plus notes of other outbreaks in the West of England. Additional items describe the Guildhall clock watchman’s death, salmon-poaching arrests near Carmarthen, and a Bristol bed murder payout discovery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. Smith
Girton
Cambridge
Carter
Basingbourn
Waldock
Offord
Martin
Baddington
F. Smith
England
Tiverton
Distressed woman charged with household robbery in Cambridge Heath
On Worship Street Sarah Jane Smith faced charges for robbing her landlady Mrs Anne Binkes to pay rent. Items taken included sheets blankets pillows and bed worth about £5. She claimed distress from a large family and promised to restore goods when able to obtain work. The case was settled with a £20 recognizance and temporary release.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Worship-street
Sarah Jane Smith
Anne Binkes
Cambridge Heath
Binkes
Hammill
Norwich Shawl Weaving and Jenny Lind Gift
A Norwich expert describes making a fill over shawl for Jenny Lind during her visit. He details a five week tow prep, a weekly shawl, costs for loom and materials, and a new great coat funded by Miss Lind. Miss Lind aided many poor weavers during her stay and was praised for her generosity.
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Norwich
Silver Road
Pockthorpe
Jenny Lind
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Hull
Grtascow
Glasgow
Strance
Farat
Thomas Toon
Guildhall
Lloyd
Worcester Herald
Ammon
Carmarthen
Sarah Thomas
Trenchard-street
Bristol
Shertorne Journal
LAW and Police
Dseata
Cheltenham Examiner
Senatos
University of Heidelberg
Pennington
Maryland
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