Kentish Gazette..
Folded broadsheet. Title decorated with vignettes of royal arms and Kent and Canterbury arms, etc. Red newspaper stamp at top. Newspapers and other periodicals are always offered subject to the usual wear and tear associated with ephemeral items. Major condition issues will be described but minor tears, creases and folds are not mentioned unless it affects legibility.
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WAGERS AND BEDDING THEFT
Publisher
Kentish Gazette, Charles Petman Rouse, George Kirkby and James Lawrence.,
Place
Canterbury
Date
1819
Synopsis
No. 5309 friday, may 7 1819.
Item Description
BROADSHEET NEWSPAPER. 14.75 x 19.75 inches. [4] pp.
Notes
Original issue of this newspaper containing a fascinating variety of notices and advertisements on the front page; the inside and back pages are a mixture of national and Kentish news and Hop Intelligence and a Corn Exchange section which supplies corn and other commodity prices. The Catholic Question was debated at length in the Commons. In Kent robbers were found to have broken into an unoccupied house in East Malling and stole four good feather beds, four bolsters, seven pillows, seventeen blankets, seven counterpanes and one chair cover. A Canterbury horse dealer won a wager by riding from the Falstaff Inn to London Bridge in under two and a half hours, requiring ten changes of horses.
[Stock No. 22795]
Subjects
19th Century • Crime • Kent • Newspapers • Periodicals