Kentish Gazette..
Folded broadsheet with traces of old fold across centre and small tears. Title decorated with vignettes of royal arms and Kent and Canterbury arms, etc. Red newspaper stamp at top.
£15.00
Publisher
Kentish Gazette, Charles Petman Rouse, George Kirkby and James Lawrence.,
Place
Canterbury
Date
1816
Synopsis
No. 5009. tuesday, june 18, 1816.
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 a Corn Exchange section which supplies corn, hop and other commodity prices at the London markets and Canterbury. News was reported of notable exiles of the Napoleonic regime in the USA, including Joseph Bonaparte, one time King of Spain, and Marshall Grouchy who led a corps in the Waterloo campaign exactly a year ago. The House of Commons debated the evils of the Lottery and 'The Occupiers of Lands lying in the Level of Romney Marsh are hereby required to pay their next Quarter's Marshland or Wall Scot, at Newhall, in Dymchurch...assessed at Six-Pence an acre.' The Kent Agricultural Society awarded two guineas to Henry Goodwin 'for having brought up 10 Children of 12, Brabourne.'
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