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1814
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Mon 13 June
Lately died at Wokingham, Mrs. Bunce, wife of Mr. Bunce, grocer, in the Market-
place.
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Thursday two troops of the 9 Light Dragoons arrived in this town, from Coventry.

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Mon 5 Sept
ROBERT TRICKEY
PLUMBER, GLAZIER, PRINTER, &c.
MARKET-PLACE, WOKINGHAM,
Solicits leave to inform the nobility, Gentry, and Public, in Wokingham and its
Vicinity, that he has commenced business in the above branches, and hereby assuring
them that he will pay the strictest attention to those who may chuse to favour him with
their kind commands.

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Mon 7 Nov
Thursday morning Joseph Budgett, a blacksmith of Wokingham, in a fit of insanity
threw himself into the river and was drowned. It is much to be wished, that the
persons in authority would use some exertions to obtain a writ to elect a Coroner for
this division, as delay is a serious public inconvenience.

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Mon 21 Nov
ROYAL HUNT
The Stag Hounds will meet at Salt Hill, on Monday morning, at half past eleven
o’clock; and on Friday at Wokingham.

There is at this time an apple tree in full bloom in the garden of Mr. Frewen, White
Hart, Broad-street.

Last week a person of Wokingham whilst sitting by the fire side, accidently moved
his hand within about an inch of the spout of a tea kettle at the moment of the extreme
ebullition of the water bursting there from, and received the ignited contents all over
his fingers, with no other sensation of feeling than what arose from the wet spreading
round them at the instant, nor any thing painful or injurious since.

1815
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Mon 30 Jan
Sunday died, at Wokingham, at the advanced age of eighty-two, Mr. Wm. Watts,
shoemaker. Possessed of a comprehensive genius, by his ingenuity he obtained the
credit of being the completest boot-maker in the kingdom; and as a florist, in the
production of forward cucumbers, he bore the pain from all competitors. Calmly
resigned to his humble portion in life, and wholly divested of all the horrid sin of
pride, throughout his whole deportment he manifested the observation of the
celebrated Pope.
“Honor and credit from no conditions rise,”
“Act well your part, there all honor lies,”

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