[list-cumbria] Cumberland Pacquet - 67

[petra.mitchinson at doctors.org.uk]

Some corrections/additions from the newspaper on the BNA website in blue:
 
Thursday last, after a long sickness, the remains of John Langton Esq were carried in a hearse; adorned with ‘Scutcheons, from his house in Castle-gate, Cockermouth, to Brigham Church, to be interred near the late Mrs [Barbara] Langton [in 1772] in the family burying ground.  The corpse was attended by most of the principal inhabitants of Cockermouth and six coaches.
 
Accounts have been received of a gentle thaw in the Thames and Tyne, mentioned in our last as frozen up. The Navigation on both is now open.
 
We hear the Bounty for Seamen, at Workington, will be continued till the 28th of February next.
 
We hear from Cockermouth, that on Monday se’nnight the wool combers and weavers there  intend to honour the festival of their patron Bishop Blaze, by parading the streets dressed in a manner hitherto unseen at that place.
 
Petra
 
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Whitehaven  - January 23,  - 1777. 
 
On Thursday last ended at Cockermouth the General Quarter Sessions of the Peace of the County of Cumberland.
 
There was very little business done, only one Traverse; a clear influence of the great benefit arising from Dr. Barn’s publication of the parish laws. A great number of road bills were preferred for different parts of the County, it being now the general opinion of people, that the full opening to the improvement of a country, so far back is husbandry as is this, is good roads.
 
A dealer in cattle was fined £15 for assaulting the collector of the shire tolls at Eamont Bridge.
 
This day there will be an eclipse of the Moon part visible, it will begin at 47 minutes past 2 in the afternoon; digits eclipsed 7 and 6 min.
 
Thursday last, after a long sickness, the remains of John Langton Esq were carried in a hearse; adorned with Scotch flag?? From his house in Castle-gate, Cockermouth, to Brigham Church, to be interred there with the late Mrs [Barbara] Langton [in 1772] in the family burying ground.  The corpse was attended by most of the principal inhabitants of Cockermouth in six coaches.
 
Accounts have been received of a gentle? thaw the Thames and Tyne, mentioned in our last ???? ??? up. The navigation on both is now open.
 
We hear the Bounty? For Seamen, at Workington, will be continued till the 28th of February next.
 
Tuesday last, the Inichiquin Tender, Capt. Burton, sailed from hence for Plymouth, with entered seaman for his Majesty’s service.
 
We hear from Bowness that the success of his majesty’s arms in America was received there with great demonstrations of joy, On the 13th. inst. Mr. Thomas Lawson treated the populace with liquor which was drunk at the Cross.
 
The following is mentioned in a letter from Glasgow of the 16th inst. “Reports received from Corke affirms that several transports were arrived there from New York, which report that an action, since the last accounts, had taken place, and that the rebel army is now totally dispersed.”
 
At the Sessions at Carlisle last week, three people were fined for selling groceries etc., and not being freemen, at the rate of 40s per month, from the time they became vendors.
 
By a letter from Saltcoats in Scotland, we are informed that on Tuesday se’nnight a large vessel belonging to Whitehaven coal-loaden and bound for Dublin, drove ashore at that place. The writer of this could not learn the name of the vessel of captain, but says that she was seen off Air [Ayr?] the day before, with a jack at her main-top mast head, and had probably, from the storm and thickness of the weather, missed her course, and strayed up the Clyde.
 
The Tyger,  Capt. Storey, arrived here on Monday night from Jamaica; she sailed with the fleet under convoy of the Squirrel, Capt. Douglas, on the 6th of November, after waiting 3 months at Kingston for the said convoy, which left her in a few days.
 
When the Rev. Dr. Porteous (now Bishop of this Diocese) waited upon his Majesty, with thanks for the honour of being nominated to the See of Chester, the King was pleased to tell him. That the dignity was conferred as “a reward due to merit  ---  without the application of interest.”
 
A robbery was committed in the house of Sam. Horner Esq. of Finglas near Dublin, on the 31st ult. to the amount of £700.
 
Capt. Hanley of the Ellis, arrived at Liverpool from Jamaica, and the Squirrel, a man of war, Capt. Douglas, in their passage, on the 26th of November, fell in with a schooner from Hispaniola, bound to Charles Town, when both gave chase and took her. Capt. Douglas, after taking the men overboard, and what things he thought proper, sent her alongside the Ellis, When Capt. Hanley, took the rigging etc and set her on fire.
 
The estate of his Grace the Duke of Bedford, who is now in his 15th year, will by the time he comes of age, will be upwards of £90,000 per annum., [that is £12,390,000 in today’s money] free of all encumbrances.
 
Last week a woman in Liverpool, who had given information to the press gang concerning a sailor, was taken out of her house, ducked several times in the dock, and now lies dangerously ill at the infirmary. The man against whom she informed, lately married her in Cumberland, and had another wife at Liverpool.
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We hear from Cockermouth, that on Monday se’nnight the wool combers and weavers there  intend to honour the festival of their patron one Bishop Unreadable xxxxx xxxxx, by parading the streets dressed in a manner hitherto unseen at that place.
 
Sunday se’nnight died at Irton Parish, on Henry Catty [actually Henry Caddy of Gatesgarth in Muncaster & buried 30.01.1777 at Irton], formerly a noted smuggler. For which he was confined 15 years in Carlisle gaol. But the most extraordinary part of his character is, that he supported a suit in chancery (concerning an estate) upwards of 30 years, by begging. His applications were principally made in London, to which place he made a journey annually, at the expence of about six shillings. Once (according to his own confession) he performed it for five shillings and nine pence.
 
Tuesday se’nnight was played upon the River Wampool near Kirkbride, a remarkable entertaining Channeling Match, between Capt. Walker of Workington, then on a visit to his brother officer, Capt. Knubley of Finglandrigg and Dr. Hall of Kirkbride.  The players were four on each side, five guineas each. Each party got ‘Two’, and the fifth played so nigh, the upshot was determined only by the stretching of a line; and was won by Capt. Walker. The spectators were numerous, and during the diversion, the players and their friends were entertained at the expence of the losers with rum, brandy, ale and Christmas pies upon the ice.
 
The following extraordinary journey on foot, was performed last Friday – One John Hayton of Dovenby, who weighs 18 stone, left Whitehaven at four o’clock in the morning, breakfasted at Dovenby at 20mins after 6; dined at Abbey-Holme at half past 12; drank tea at Hesket-Newmarket at half past 3 in the afternoon; supped at Bannchburn near Cockermouth at 7; - and went to Bed in his own house in Dovenby at half past 10 PM. This trifiling ambulation on a winter’s day amounts to only 74 miles.
 
                                      Extracts from a letter from Carlisle.
“A few days ago, one John Phillipson, of Beck House near this place, returned from the North of Ireland, where he went the latter end of the Autumn, with a view of being cured, by a gentleman in those parts, of an inveterate cancer in his nose, with which he had been afflicted nine years; and now exhibits to his friends and to the public a most pleasing and incontestable proof that even this disorder, the most terrifying of all others, and which has hitherto been deemed little less than totally incurable, may be, at least in a very great variety of instances, readily and infallibly remedied. The gentleman who cured him, he says, applied a small quantity of something to the part affected, the effects of which he almost instantaneously felt over his whole frame, which seemed to receive a general shock from it; but more particularly his brain. He was then put to bed, where he continued for three days and nights; and was allowed nothing during this time, bur barley water, of which he drank plentifully. He perspired very freely, and underwent, he supposes, a kind of salivation. About thirty hours, he was afflicted with a great pain, but the rest of the time was tolerable easy.
In five days he was able to walk about, and in less than a fortnight was perfectly well. Nothing but the bare wound now remains, which is healing very fast and give him no pain. In short, he makes no doubt of his being perfectly cured. It is obvious this cure was not quackery. 
[There is more on this subject]
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We are informed by the Dublin papers, that on the 14th and 15th inst., there was a dreadful storm of wind and rain, for five hours it was so violent. We hear from Edinburgh, that it was felt there; the wooden roof of the steeple of the West Church was carried entirely off, and many chimneys were blown down.  
 
By an authentic letter received from an officer in Gen. Howe’s army at New York, we are assured, that the greatest dread prevailed amongst the thinking part of the troops, respecting provisions and fuel. That there was a great scarcity of each about the latter end of November when the weather was setting in severely.  Taken from the Bath Chronicle
 
    A List of the Annual FAIRS in the ISLE of MANN
 
Kirk Bride                      Feb. 12?                        Kirk Lennan                             Aug. 5
Poel-Vath                      Shrove Tuesday            Kirk-Maughold                       Aug 11
Peeltown                       March 23                      Balla Salla                               Aug 12                      
Jurby                             April 5                           Ballaugh                                 Aug 26
Balla-Salla                     April 25                         Balla ?????                              Aug 29
St.Johns Chapel            May 1                            Kirk Michael                           Oct 10
Kirk-Bride                      May 6                            Kirk Arbury                             Oct 23
Kirk-Masew                   May 12                          Kirk Michael                           Oct 29
Kirk- St. Ann                  Whit. Monday               St.John’s Chapel                     Nov 1
Kirk Arbory                    June 22                          Ramsay                                   Nov 3
Sulby                             June 24                          Douglas                                  Nov 10
St.John’s Chapel           July 5                             Ramsey                                   Nov 26
Peeltown                       July 24                           Kirk-Arbory                             Dec 6
Kirk-Malew                   July 25                           Kirk Andrews                          Dec 11
                                                                            
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Nev. Ramsden
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