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1786

NEWS JUST IN...
ON LOOKING back through the expiring year, we are extremely sorry to find it a mere vacuum in the annals of Great Britain. Ministers indeed, or their emissaries for them, fed us full of hopes of paying the national debt, by means of a full and superabounding Treasury, flowing over from productive taxes, customs and duties. All this sounded very fine and well pleasing to the people, raising their expectations high! But alas! when all this came to be realised in practise, what a scene! The		Treasury itself wanted to be replenished, and the Minister, with the utmost stretch of his financeering abilities, found himself under the necessity of laying a multitude of additional burdens upon the shoulders of the people, to support the publick-credit, and provide for heavy arrears of war. Among these the Shop-tax and the Maid's-tax are most unpopular and degrading to the nation! As to the boasted reformation of the state, such a bauble never was proposed by any Minister or patriot to any people.
January 5, 1786

The Overseers of the Poor of the different parishes in the City of Bath, and of the parishes of Walcot and Lyncombe and Widcomb, at the request of the Gentlemen of the Committee for conducting the Sunday Schools, do hereby give notice to the several parents who have children in the said Schools, to send them at the hours appointed every Sunday Morning and afternoon, as we are determined on receiving complaint of		their being detained at home, or suffered to absent themselves, to abridge the weekly pay of such parents, agreeable to the directions of the Magistrates. And that in future no poor person will be relieved at parish expence, unless their children are sent for instruction to the said schools, to which the Committee authorise us to say every child may be admitted, from six years of age and upwards.
July 27, 1786

MR Rayner, the general overseer of the parish of Bradford, appointed by Act of Parliament, has lately erected two ovens for the purpose of supplying the poor with bread as cheap as the times will allow, and they now have near 11 pounds of excellent bread for a shilling, which is about two pounds and a half more than they had before.

Aug 31, 1786

Lower Assembly Rooms, October 4th, 1786. In compliance with the desire of several Ladies and Gentlemen resorting to Bath the proprietors beg leave to propose a public BREAKFAST, on Wednesday mornings,		at which a Band of Music will attend. Subscribers to the Walking in the Rooms will be admitted on paying one shilling for their breakfast; non-subscribers 2s 6d each.
Oct 5, 1786