Royal Ascot Raceweek heavy crowd notes and prizes
Detailed report of Ascot fixtures with multiple races, winners, and betting. Notes on royal procession, attendance, and Cotterill prize group inspired by Crecy. Highlights include Satirist, Auckland, Vibration, St Francis, Misdeal, Barrier, Ajax and other stakes, plus Marylebone vs Cambridge cricket result.
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Taz
Ascot
Windsor
Cotterill
Crecy
Bohemia
Earl of Warwick
Black Prince
Cottrill
Edward
Baldric
Marylebone Crus
University OF Campripce
Massy
Earls of
Bailey
Taylor
Kynaston
Hillyer
French
Wall
Pickering
Messrs. de St. Croix
Dewing
Marylebone
Ascot Day Amid Royal Attendance and Thoroughbred Races
A crowded Ascot meeting featured the Queen and Prince Albert in attendance with a brilliant royal court. detailed results included wins by Bees Wing, Amima filly, Gunter, Argos, Auckland, Jamal, and Rochester among others, with extensive listings of stakes and entrants. The piece notes orderly conduct, favorable weather, and high social presence, highlighting the royal party’s departure after Beenwing’s cup victory.
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Counse
Bace
Ascot
London
Metropolia
Great Western Railway
Paddington
Slough
Old Windsor
Heath
Royal Stand
Grand Stand
Wes
VE Panedey
Earl of
Waelyn
Mewes
Jan
Prince Albert
Duke
Duchess of
Saxe Meiningen
Duchess of Kent
Count Mensdorf
Duke of Wellington
Duchess of Sutherland
Mensdorf
Duchess of Beaufort
Marquis of Exeter
Worcester
Jerey
Aberdeen
Delawar
Dunmore
Liverpoool
Donmore
Rosslyn
George Lennox
C. Wellesley
Riviers
E. Bowater
Anson
C. A. Murray
Liddell
Paget
Egham
Her Majesty
Prince
Court
Beenwing
Queen
Lord Exeter
Lord G. Bentinck
Orde
Combes
Pettit
St Francis
Thornhill
Kirby
T.Y.C
Mr. Graydon
Miss Heathcote
Mr. Gregory
Gillies
New Mile
Lord Westminster
Auckland
Robinson
Sir G. Heathcote
Dark Susan
Saros
Muley Hassan
Mr. Coleman
Jamal
Nat
Mr. Ford
Spiteful
Col. Wyndham
Mr. Mare
Argos
Mr. Gardner
Monops
Combe
Rosalind
Col. Peel
D. Tat
Mr. Shelley
Daddy Longlega
Yorkshire
Mr. Osbaldeston
Alexandrina
Mr. Lichtwald
Miss Stilton
Ind
Nora Creina
Revision
Mr. Clarke
Acacia
Iole
Mr. Booth
St Jean d’Acre
Trident
Phillimore
Rochester
Chapple
Forth
S .Camelino
Ascotheath
Hibbard
Clark
Newmarket
May and Grinsell
Pierce
Death at Apothecaries Hall in Explosive Accident
Inquest into the death of Mr Hennell of Apothecaries Hall who was killed on Saturday by detonating powder. Coroner Mr Payne held the inquiry at the Blue Last public house. The viewing revealed a gruesome scene with the body in a shell, the head crushed, chest opened, and severed arm among the injuries.
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Fuér Wiikes
Charles Rivers
Playhouse-yard
Hennell
Society of Apothecaries
J. Hennell
East India Company
London
George Angell
Fredk. Leffler
Mr. Hennell
Colonel Bonham
Company of Apothecaries
Guernsey
William Thomas Brande
H. Robinson
J. Hussy
Apothecaries'hall
Apothecaries’hall
Payne
Blue Last
Divorce Case Before Lords Hutchinson and Campbell
In a bill brought before Lords Cottenham Brougham Wynford and Campbell Mr Austen represented the petitioners side with Talbot. The service of the copy was proved at York on Mrs Ashton by the solicitor and Mr R Ashton. The witnesses described the Paris marriage in August 1824 at the English embassy and noted the couple’s time in Southampton and India. Details cover residence, health, governess Mackinnon, and allegations involving Mr Bedford and Mrs Ashton including finances and a cottage occupation. The report mentions a damages award of £50 and the bill being read a second time.
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Maxwell
Paris
Richard Ashton
India
England
East India Company
Southampton
Mackinnon
Hounslow
Bedford
Vauxhall Gardens Creditors Challenge Reduction Order
Reynal and others petition to rescind an order reducing their proofs and restore their claims to full amount against the separate estates of bankrupts Gye and Hughes who financed the Vauxhall Gardens purchase. Mortgagees argue for full proof. court notes mortgagees hold a £21,000 debt and that sale proceeded after leave to prove for deficiency.
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Vauxhall GarpEns
Reynal
Greaxp Hughes
Messrs. Reynal
Archibald
Bacon
Anderton
Keene
Messrs. Gye and
Hughes
Vauxhall Gardens
Gye and Hughes
Vauxhall
Ttr
Grebald
Mample
Court dismisses petition to increase debt proof after sale
A commissioner's correction reduced proved debt to deficiency, despite two-year delays by creditors seeking to prove £21,000. The court held the first order erroneous, the second correct, and dismissed the petition with costs.
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Costa
Will and codicils of late James Wood probate dispute in court
In a Gloucester matter the Privy Council reversed a Prerogative Court intestacy ruling and ordered costs paid from the estate. Executors and heirs argued over taxed costs totaling over £4,600, with Buckton seeking sworn confirmation of items as Hitchens’s representative died. The Consistory Court also heard a restitution suit between Augusta Cripps and Edward Cripps amid adultery allegations and questions of marriage identity. The court favored separation, noting probable adultery by Mrs Cripps with Capt. Garth.
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Appeals Court
Doctors Commons
Tursday
James Woop
GuouerstEx
Daubeny
Matthew Wood, Bart
Osborne
Chadborn
Surman
Judicial Committee of the Privy Council
James Wood
Matthew Wood
J. Surman
Gloucester
Buckton
Hitchens
J. Wood
Longden
Toto
Mr. Buckten
Mr. Longden
Mr. Buckton
Wepnzspar, Cripps aGarxat Cripps
Augusta Cripps
Edward Cripps
St. Pancras Church
Gloucestershire
London
Augusta Cullington
George-street
Hampstead Road
Thomas Garth
Queen’s Advocate
Jenner
Cripps
Covent Garden performers’ plate questioned in insolvent case
The insolvent Mr Mathews explains disposal of property and a plate offered to him by Covent Garden performers to honor creditors. The plate was never paid for, and the commissioner rules it not property of the creditors. The insolvent is discharged forthwith.
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Mr. Valentine
Mr. Mathews
Mr. Lewis
Mathews
Street Rappery and Trial of a London Thief
A London magistrate court hears a case of Mary Mason accused of robbing a foreign gentleman. Captain Semper misstates evidence in French and English, then is corrected. Mason allegedly snatched five sovereigns and a banknote, plus a pocketbook, after a handful of questions about Bridewell and Newgate. She is committed for trial after a raid of a hectic, overlapping testimony.
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Mary Mason
Peter Laurie
Semper
Austria
Peter
Sir Peter
Fleet-street
Bridewell
Newgate
Foster
London
Paris
Stanfield Jackson
Dunn
Burdett Coutts
Fleet
Insolvent Mathews Faces Opposing Creditor at Court
The insolvency hearing for Charles Mathews, lessee and manager tied to Covent Garden, featured Alexander Logie opposing discharge. A creditor claimed £48 18s 3d for spangles and theatre decorations while Mathews cited losses at the Olympic Theatre during his absence in America as the cause of his troubles, with testimony about jewelry proceeds and books valued around £80.
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Tavuspar
James Matuzws
Coventarden
Alexander Logie
Charles Mathews
Lewis
Mathews
Lambeth
Commissioner Reynolds
Reynolds
Lucas
Cook
Woodroffe
Nichols
Logie
Madame Vestris
Lewis Levi
Victoria Theatre
Willis
Piazza
Coventgarden
Olympic Theatre
America
Planche
Madame Veatris
Cooke
Mr. Willis
Josiah Robert Mitchell
Gravesend
Ascot
Mr. Lewis
Mr. Cooke
Pupis
Assault at Dover Street ends in bail for medical student
In London, Frederick Pridham, a self described medical student, faced examination for a violent assault on Lieutenant Colonel Baron Osten at Baron Osten's Dover Street home. The blow with an ebony stick fractured the weapon and opened deep wounds. Osten, aged 65, faced possible fatal risk. The defendant claimed self defense and that Osten had assaulted him first. Bail set at £1000 with sureties. remanded for further hearing.
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Marlborough Street
Frederick Pridham
Maltby
Baron Osten
James Sudbury
Doverstreet
Piccadilly
Rasent
Sherrard
New Bond Street
Osten
Witnese
Dr. Pridham
Lord Tenterden
T. Fines
Collins
Crownstreet
St. Giles’s
Coldbathfields
Mary Ann Thornton
Wife alleges assault and infidelity amid court action
Mrs Bills testifies of seven year marriage, claims her husband Bautat Assauct assaulted her after a suspected affair with James Gouldie. Gouldie admits relations with the complainant. The case, linked to alleged jealousy and coercion, is sent to quarter sessions with the defendant held on bail at Hicks's Hall.
Respectable shoplifter before the court in Blackfriars Road
A well dressed married woman Caroline Davis was charged with stealing a pair of ladies shoes from Henry Tune’s shop in Charlotte Street Blackfriars Road. After secreted shoes were found under her shawl she was committed but bailed for trial at sessions. Also Samuel Putman, a young man, was bailed to answer for concealing beneath a bedstead at a Kent Road house. the magistrate ordered bail for his behaviour.
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Ratner
Samuel Putman
Kent Road
Mary
Man in custody over alleged feuding murder attempt near Hounslow
The case before Mr G Clive involves a labouring man charged with attempting to take his brother’s life during a disturbance at the Brown Bear public house near Hounslow Middlesex. Key witnesses describe a stabbing in the stomach after an argument, with medical and court proceedings to follow. Separately a fire at the Eagle Tavern City Road caused damage to the Grecian Saloon fire-work room but was contained by quick fire brigade action. The proprietor Rouse reports insurance in the Victuallers office.
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Ekemnsing
Thomas Stofape
Asworths
Wisore
John Shores
Anworth
Hounslow
Middlesex
G. Clive
Lawn
Caeri Ree
Agai
Chid
Clive
Reinnces
Sittie
Olce-Constable Feate
Orother
Camma
Winceinen Anaeires
Faenerai
Saint Enes
John Shore
Olbert
Femmes
Rouse
Victuallers
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Beau Monde
Duke of Beaufort
Marquis of
Clanricarde
Westminster
Marchioness of
Downshire
Stanley
Chesterfield
Countess
Wilton
G. Bentinck
Macdonald
W. Lennox
Fitzroy
Sefton
March
Cardigan
Hilsborough
Erro
Drumlanrig
Villiers
Strathaven
S. Osborne
W. Paulett
Irby
Hawker
Portman
Brand
Greville
Newton
Shelley
Batson
J. Stanley
Pantaloon
J. Gerard
Goodman
Rover
Mr. Charlton
Mr. Payne
Mr. Gibaldeston
Alexandria
Mr. Theobald
Satirist
Meal
Lasso
Rapture
Swinley Course
Lord George Bentinck
Firebrand
Colonel Anson
Tyo
Mr. Forth
Vibration
Hercules
Gregory
Una
Lord Villiers
Mr. Hornby
William de Fortibus
Rodanthe
Tamburini
E. O
Revoke
Hyllus
Rhodanthe
Snowdrop
Mosque
Mr. Pettit
St. Francis
Mr. Combe
Ord
G. Heathcote
Lord Chesterfield
Jack
H. Combe
Nob
Beeswing
St.Francis
St. James’s Palace
Lo G. Bentinck
Daniel
Rogers
Mr. Greville
Gunter
Lord Stradbroke
Jeremy Diddler
Mr. Thornhill
Glaucus
Mr. Goodman
Swinley
Duke of Bedford
Envoy
Sir Harry
Arkansas
Thornohill
Espartero
S. Lucas
Epsom
Doncaster
Lord
Exeter
Touchstone
Amima
Mann
Dilbar
Arima
Barrier
Mr. Rush
Maresfield
New Mile Post
Mr. Nightingale
Ajax
Sly
Atirist
LAW
Court OF Review
Wronzspar
Broughton
Bury
Shearman
Thom
Parkplace
Shoreditch
Eastern Counties Railway
Soner
James Hughes
Lambeth Street
Nam James Gouldie
Cannon-street
Gouldie
Aiew Commercial Road
Withees
Limehouse Church
Henry
James Gouldie
Geary
Hicks's Hall
Warrans
Harrier
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