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'Recent' events in Baths past.

All items taken from The Bath Chronicle.

1784 Jan - Jul

WHEREAS complaints are made by the respectable inhabitants of this City, that the loud and repeated Cries which are used in the Streets are a great nuisance and disturbance to many persons: This is to give Notice, That to all those who hawk about and vend by Public Cry shall be restrained from using the said Cry more than once within the distance of 8 or 10 doors, and it is hereby ordered that the Beadles of this City do give notice to such whom		they find crying about the said streets, that they do observe this regulation, and that from and after this present time, if those who have received this order shal be found to offend against the same, they will be taken before a Magistrate and punished for the said offence. James Leake, Mayor. S. Crook and Leonard Coward, Justices.
April 8, 1784

THURSDAY died at his home in Alfred Street, in the 81st year of his age, the Rev Thomas Watson D. D., Prebendary of Westminster, Rector of St Stephen's, Walbrook, London, and Curate of St Margaret's, Westminster - only surviving son of the late good and venerable Bishop of Sodor and Man, whose Works he lately published to the World, and whose excellent Character he in a great measure copied. The prisoner in		Ilchester and Bath prisons who have been long fed by his bounty. The numerous deserving poor of the City of Bath, and in short all his distressed fellow - creatures that lived within reach of his benevolence, will severely feel his loss. His remains are to be removed for interment in St Stephen's Church, Walbrook, where a monument has long been erected to perpetuate his own memory, and that of his wife.
April 30, 1784

WE ARE requested by many of our readers to insert the following CARD to the Commissioners of the City: "The inhabitants of Bath, one and all, call upon you to inform them both where they are to have their carpets beaten, if it is not to be done within the city or the liberties thereof without being liable to the fine of 10s, and likewise to let them know when and how often the scavengers are by law required to call at every person's house for the ashes.		Many of us have freeholds of our own, and have therefore thought that we might with impunity have our carpets beaten on our own premises. The scavengers often call at our doors for ashes, at dinner and other times, when it is neither convenient for us to let our own servants, nor the scavengers themselves, to bring them up. Be so good, therefore, to explain to us the law, and our duty likewise more fully in these particulars."
April 30, 1784

THE HUMBLE Petition of Christopher Lieb. Your Petitioner is a native Brussels, by trade a Hair-Dresser, lived in Bath these 24 years past, has had the honour of serving several of the Nobility and Gentry, and always had the character of an honest man, but being Afflickted with sickness and infirmaties for some years past, has been unable to support himself, therefore has been obliged to part with his own and daughters cloaths and pledges to get the common necessaries of life - that under these distresses your Petitioner flatters himself, if the benevolent Public would assist him with a little money to redeem		their things out of pawn, and carry them up to London, he shall, through God's assistance, meet with Friends there. Your poor Petitioner entreats that the Charitable and Well-disposed would be pleased to bestow the smallest assistance on him, and as in duty bound he shall ever pray. The truth of above may be enquired of Mr Fletch, Circus, Mr Anderton, apothecary, Harington Place, Mr Evill, silver smith, Market Place, and at Lieb's shop in Union Passage, where the smallest donations will be gladly received and thankfully acknowledged.
July 29, 1784