Some Selected Reports from The Windsor and Eton Express
25th August 1827
To Sportsmen
On consequence of the backwardness of the birds it is particularly requested that all persons will Refrain from Shooting over the Manors at Widmore, Harleyford, and Great Marlow, until Monday, the 10th day of September Next; and every unqualified person found shooting on either of the above Manors, will be prosecuted with the utmost severity of the law.
William Clayton, Lord of the Manor.
Great Marlow, August 23, 1827.
Manors of Datchet and Ditton
We, whose names are here undersigned, do hereby give notice, that all qualified persons are requested for the future, not to sport on any of the Lands or Grounds occupied by us, or any or either of us, situate and being in the parish of Datchet, in the county of Bucks; and all unqualified persons trespassing after this notice, will be prosecuted according to law.
Thomas Adams
J.Goodwin
Mrs.R.Goodwin
George Styles
Game Notice
Al Persons are hereby cautioned not to hunt, course, or shoot over the lands, belonging to or in my occupation , at Fifield, in the parish of Bray. Any person found trespassing will be prosecuted to the utmost rigour of the law,
Hawe's Hill, Aug 25, 1827.
John Banham.
Parish of Winkfield, Berks.
The Game within this Parish having for some years past been vary much destroyed, all qualified persons are requested to abstain, during the approaching season, from Shooting or Sporting in or over any of the lands or grounds occupied by the undersigned proprietors and occupiers of Estates, within the said parish; and all unqualified persons are desired to take notice, that if they should be founds trespassing or destroying the game, on any part of the said parish, legal measures will be resorted to, for the purpose of restraining them form a repetition of such practices.
Daniel Agace [?].
Lord of the Manors of Winkfield and Ascot. Winkfield, August 25, 1827.
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| William Frederic | |
| William Rendall | John Woods |
| J.Sidwell | Thomas Druce |
| John Atkins | Mary Davis |
| John Boyce | Charles Dolby |
| John Cross | John Holliday |
| John Cross, jun. | Charles Maslin |
| George Cross | Ephraim Passmore |
| Samuel Cotterell | Elizabeth Grace. |
Windsor and Eton
Tuesday was the birthday of the
Duke of Clarence, when his Royal Highness completed his sixty-second year. The occasion was hailed in this town by the ringing of the Castle and parish bells , at intervals, throughout the day - and every other mark of regard.
As we predicted, our theatre during the past week has exhibited a succession of brilliant and overflowing audiences. On Monday, Shakespeares Macbeth was revived in a manner that reflects the highest credit on the establishment; the actors exerted themselves with no inconsiderable effect, which a crowded auditory acknowledged by repeated marks of approbation. On Tuesday, the performances were graced by the command of her Royal Highness the
Princess Augusta, on which occasion the theatre was most numerously attended, as it likewise was on Thursday, the evening's entertainment being by desire of
Colonel Leahy and the officers of the 21st Fusileers. The performances on both nights appeared to give the greatest satisfaction, but the little Farcetta of the Rendezvous, positively convulsed the house with laughter. The season is now rapidly drawing to a close, as a repetition of many pieces might be desirable. On Saturday, the 1st of September, the
Countess Harcourt honours the theatre with her patronage, while
Sir H.Vivian, and
J.Ramsbottom, Esq., our highly esteemed members, have appointed the following Tuesday for their annual bespeak.
On Monday last an inquest was held before
- Adams, Esq., the King's coroner, and a respectable jury, at the residence of
Miss Roberts, in the Castle, on the body of
Mrs.Inwood, whose death we recorded last week. After an examination of the husband, surgeon, and several other witnesses, whose evidence corroborated our former statement, the jury found a verdict of - "Died by the visitation of God, in a fit."
On Tuesday last, during the violent storm, a fine working ox, belonging to his Majesty, running loose in the Great Park, was struck by lightning and killed on the spot. On an interior examination of the animal, the heart was found to be considerably affected.
Aylesbury
At a vestry meeting held at Aylesbury on Thursday last, it was resolved unanimously to take 20 acres of land, for the purpose of employing those labourers belonging to the parish, who cannot otherwise find work, in spade husbandry.
Mr.Joseph Read, with that good feeling which we have often witnessed in him, offered to let the required quantity of land, and his offer was immediately accepted.
Mr.Kirby, a farmer living in the parish of Waddesdon, met with a serious accident on Monday. He was thrown from the shafts of his waggon on which he was imprudently riding, and the wheels passed over one of his arms, breaking it in two places. It is strange that the frequency of accidents from waggons and other vehicles, originating entirely in carelessness, does not operate as a caution to the drivers. We have heard no less than six cases within this fortnight in the neighbourhood of Aylesbury, wherein persons have either lost their lives or had their limbs broken, owing to their own inadvertency.
- Piddington, the lad whose leg was torn off by the wheel of a waggon, as stated in our last, is going on well, and there is some probability of his recovery.
There is now growing in the garden of
Mr.Horner, of Marsworth, Bucks, a sunflower ten feet seven inches in height, with a stem seven inches in circumference.
A mare , the property of
Mrs.Landon, of Aylesbury, fell from the tow-path of the canal, on Thursday, into the first lock , and was drowned.
On the 20th inst., an inquisition was taken by
J.Charsley, Esq., at West Wycombe, Bucks, on the view of the body of
Samuel Grange, who, fell a sacrifice to his own imprudence in riding on the shafts of a waggon. He had the conducting of the fly waggon belonging to
Mr.W.P.Budd. On Sunday evening, about four o'clock, five of the horses in the waggon were found down in that part of the turnpike road near to West Wycombe called Dashwood Hill, which is very steep, and one of the horses was nearly dead, and impeded the progress of the waggon, and the waggoner was found about 60 yards from the waggon, lying in the ditch next to the road, quite dead, and the near fore and hind wheels of the waggon were traceable along the ditch and over the body and head, the left parietal bone of which was mortally fractured. It appeared that the man had been asleep on the shafts about a mile from the spot, and was so stupefied by liquor that he was insensible of his danger, or that of his horses, which were pressed upon the waggon not having been locked, and thereby occasioned the melancholy occurrences. A verdict of Accidental Death was found, and a deodand of 50s on the waggon, horses, and lading.
On the same day another inquisition was taken by the same coroner , at Penn, Bucks, on view of the body of
Charles Bunce, who, on the 10th instant, was driving a waggon, in which his master,
Mr.Cabling and a boy were, and on descending a hill, the waggon pressed on the thiller horse, for want of a breeching and crupper, which urged the horses into a trot, and the boy stumbling against a stone fell, and the two near wheels of the waggon passed over his stomach and mortally bruised him, of which he died after lingering till Sunday morning. Verdict - Accidental death, deodand 4s.
Yesterday,
Stephen Ives and
Joshua Ives were brought to the country gaol, charged with assaulting
Wm.Powell, gamekeeper to
Sir Wm.Clayton, at the parish of West Wycombe. - This assault, we learn, is of an aggravated nature;
Powell and another keeper were out on the morning of the 13th of February, and met three men, two of whom were the prisoners, armed with guns and carrying a bag. The men presented their guns at the keepers and threatened to shoot them if they followed them. The keepers , however did follow, and the men took to flight, and flung away ten pheasants as they ran.
Powell being a young man, kept up with the party, and left his companions behind. After running some time, the prisoners and their associate fell upon him, beat him severely, and broke his gun to pieces. They then ran off, and though search was made for them, they could not be found until the present time.