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Exeter, October 20, 1827. The question of transacting the financial business of this county, at the quarter ..

... Devjnport, Mrs. Ann Rendle, of the Adelplii, London. At Ashburton,of a paralytic seizure, Mr. Thomas Cane, Governor of the Workhouse. ExiTF.r Mapket. Wheat is brought to market in a damp state owing to the late rain. Ordinary wl.eut so ld yesterday from ...

Published: Saturday 20 October 1827
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 2688 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

A Maniac '—The following circumstance occurred atChiswick church Sunday. The congregation had assembled for ..

... do your duty and will do nunc. tto was, however removed after con• rlinff but not without the assistance of placed the workhouse. His name Charles Cotton a man who has Sheen receiving relief from the parish. After-1 wards the service proceeded with its ...

Published: Saturday 20 October 1827
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 196 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

TO CORUESPONUENIS. We have received some observations on tiie New Market which sliall have a place in our next. ..

... enjoyment which springs from industry, when raised above the wretched condition of servile toil, or the imprisoned hbour of a Work-House, is the only moral stimulus that awakens exertion, and gives a natural cheerfulness to human energies, obtaining the precious ...

Published: Saturday 27 October 1827
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 1496 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

TO THE EDITOR. OF EXETER WEEKLY TIMES. The spirit of enquiry that has called into action the energies ofthe men

... advisable, to inform the citizens, what these exceptions were, not being read in the Court Two charges for coals supplied to workhouse, but which had been taken from thence,and applied elsewhere—A sum charged for elm boards, (for coffins,) being considerably ...

Published: Saturday 10 November 1827
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 884 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Police Reports

... time he should office, upon the principle recommended in the letter, would probably have to step from the Mansion House the workhouse hen his year was up. launh). X* quest it fused. Story of a Robbery.— poor diseased-looking man, mimed Harvey, was charged ...

Published: Saturday 17 November 1827
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 4554 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

zing application of parochial funds, and its bugbear operation in society, with mere common contempt or dislike ..

... approaching to insensibility. We s hall make no apology for the firmness of our expressions, convinced as we are, that parish Workhouses are, in all situations, public nuisances, and, in agricultural districts, unnecessary as they are mischievous and impolitic ...

Published: Saturday 17 November 1827
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 3375 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

BRANCH BANK

... open to refutation. To the Payers of the Poor's An account of the art! les paid for the the poor, aa supplied tithe Exeter Workhouse, for the last seven years, and the average number of person* in the house. Years endingin % ~i i \\\\ ...

Published: Saturday 24 November 1827
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 2482 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

CORONER'S INQUESTS

... CORONER'S INQUESTS. On Wednesday, an inquest was held in Morris's work-house, in the Mint, Borough, on tho hotly of Johanna Summers, aged 26. Mr. James Goodland, chemist, of Union-street, deposed that the deceased had been formerly in his service, and ...

Published: Saturday 24 November 1827
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 1028 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, &c

... canal, and with some difficulty gol her out. She was taken St. .Margaret's watchhouse, Westminster, aud subsequently (he workhouse, nearly dying s(a(e. She appeared to about lhii(y ycarsofagc, genteelly attired in half mourning, but was evidently insane ...

Published: Saturday 01 December 1827
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 1391 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

CITY WORKHOUSE

... CITY WORKHOUSE. Exeter, Bee- Ist. From what can collect, by report, the storm is thickening at our City Workhouse.- Our readers will recollect, that last week published a printed statement of the food, &c. charged a,s being expended at that establishment ...

Published: Saturday 01 December 1827
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 3546 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

MOUNT RADFORD

... perfection. NORTH DEVON, etc. Wednesday last, T. Copner, Es9. Coroner, held Inquest on the body of Mary aged 67, a pauper in the workhouse Stoke Rivers who had dropped down and died suddenly, on the morning of the same day.—Verdict, Visitation of God. The Committee ...

Published: Saturday 08 December 1827
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 2765 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

CITY WORKHOUSE

... CITY WORKHOUSE. Exeter, Dec. Bth. Every' day gives fresh proof of the evils that result from'the practice of secret meetings Bodies, whom are entrusted the administration ofthe public purse. adverted in our last to the investigation now pursuing by the ...

Published: Saturday 08 December 1827
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 701 | Page: 1 | Tags: none