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Article LIST OF GENTLEMEN NOMINATED AS SHERIFFS FOR 1795. ← Page 2 of 2 Article COUNTRY NEWS. Page 1 of 2 →
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List Of Gentlemen Nominated As Sheriffs For 1795.
SURREY . James Jackson , of Petersham ; Thomas Turton , of Starborough Castle ; Edward Knipe , of Epsom , Esqrs . SUSSEX . Francis Newbery , of Heathfield-Park ; Edward Barker , of Sompting ; Nathaniel Kemp , of Ovingdean , Esqrs . WARWICKSHIRE . William Little , of Kenilworth ; George Perrot , ofFladbury ; Francis Holv . oake , of AIne , Esqrs . WORCESTERSHIRE . William Waldron , of Stourbridge ; Thomas Holmes , of Beoley ; Thomas Holbeche , of Hill-Court , Esqrs ,
WILTSHIRE . James Mountague , of Alderton ; Philip James Gibbs , of Trowbridge ; Beckett Turner , of Penleigh , Esqrs . i ¦ YORKSHIRE . William Wrightson , of Cusworth ; William Garforth , ofWigginthorpe , Esqrs . Sir Christopher Sykes ; of Sledmire , Bart . BY THE PRINCE OF WALES ' COUNCIL FOR D UCHEY OF CORNWALL COUNTY OF CORNWALL . Ralph Allen Daniel , of Truro ; John Enys , of Enys , and John Trevenen , of Helstone , Esqrs ,
Country News.
COUNTRY NEWS .
Worcester , Oct . 25 . The following extraordinary occurrence took place on Sunday se ' nnight : —As Mr . .. Slater , of Barton , Warwickshire , was going fo attend divine service at Bidford church , accompanied by some of his friends and neighbours , he was attacked by four stout men , armed with bludgeons and tucks , who forcibly seized him and dragged him along , pretending that they had an attachment against him , and that he must appear witVi them at the Cvown-Office in Londoh ' by ten o ' clock the next morning . —An alarm was soon given , and Mr . Slater was rescued and taken back to his house . ; . and as there appeared
no probability of their having any legal process against him ; and that no such process could be legally executed on the Lord ' s day , Mr . SJater ' s friends deterr mined to pursue the offenders , and take them before a Magistrate for the assault . —The leader of this banditti , whose name was Camden , and formerly an inhabitant of that neighbourhood , immediately fled , and forcing his way through several strong-hedges , at last threw himself into the river Avon to avoid his pur-, siters ; but though an expert swimmer , lie had taken very few strokes before he turned up on the water dead ; and notwithstanding he was immediately taken out , without his having once sunk , he could not be recovered by any medical art . —The other three men were soon secured , and committed by Philips
Littleton , Esq . to Warwick gaol . Lezues , Oct . 27 . On Monday the 13 th instant a man , named John Ellis , died in a shocking state of hydrophobia , in a barn at Lichfold , near Petworth , in this county . The deceased had gone , with several others , a few weeks since , to see a cow which had been bitten by a supposed mad dog , and was in consequence confined in a stable belonging to Mr . Thullens , of Lodsworth : on the approach of the men the cow made a violent push at Ellis , but was prevented from
injuring him with her . horns by a rail or-gate which separated the stable from the spot on which the men stood , but a quantity of saliva or slaver from the cow's mouth was observed on Ellis ' s face , which he wiped off , and appeared fo think no more about it . A few days afterwards the poor man was observed to be unusually dull and melancholy ; and on enquiry being' made respecting his health , he said he was very ill ; the officers of the parish had therefore determined to remove him-from the barn in which he had taken up his abode , to the place of his legal settlement ; they accordingly proceeded the next morning to the barn for
the purpose above-mentioned , when the distempered man darted by them in a very extraordinary . manner , and ran across several fields with a dcree of velocity which astonished them , taking frequent leaps in his progress of seven or eiglit feet into the air ; he at length , however , got into a deep pit , which gave his pursuers an opportunity of coming up with him , and enabled them to secure VOL . III . 3 B
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List Of Gentlemen Nominated As Sheriffs For 1795.
SURREY . James Jackson , of Petersham ; Thomas Turton , of Starborough Castle ; Edward Knipe , of Epsom , Esqrs . SUSSEX . Francis Newbery , of Heathfield-Park ; Edward Barker , of Sompting ; Nathaniel Kemp , of Ovingdean , Esqrs . WARWICKSHIRE . William Little , of Kenilworth ; George Perrot , ofFladbury ; Francis Holv . oake , of AIne , Esqrs . WORCESTERSHIRE . William Waldron , of Stourbridge ; Thomas Holmes , of Beoley ; Thomas Holbeche , of Hill-Court , Esqrs ,
WILTSHIRE . James Mountague , of Alderton ; Philip James Gibbs , of Trowbridge ; Beckett Turner , of Penleigh , Esqrs . i ¦ YORKSHIRE . William Wrightson , of Cusworth ; William Garforth , ofWigginthorpe , Esqrs . Sir Christopher Sykes ; of Sledmire , Bart . BY THE PRINCE OF WALES ' COUNCIL FOR D UCHEY OF CORNWALL COUNTY OF CORNWALL . Ralph Allen Daniel , of Truro ; John Enys , of Enys , and John Trevenen , of Helstone , Esqrs ,
Country News.
COUNTRY NEWS .
Worcester , Oct . 25 . The following extraordinary occurrence took place on Sunday se ' nnight : —As Mr . .. Slater , of Barton , Warwickshire , was going fo attend divine service at Bidford church , accompanied by some of his friends and neighbours , he was attacked by four stout men , armed with bludgeons and tucks , who forcibly seized him and dragged him along , pretending that they had an attachment against him , and that he must appear witVi them at the Cvown-Office in Londoh ' by ten o ' clock the next morning . —An alarm was soon given , and Mr . Slater was rescued and taken back to his house . ; . and as there appeared
no probability of their having any legal process against him ; and that no such process could be legally executed on the Lord ' s day , Mr . SJater ' s friends deterr mined to pursue the offenders , and take them before a Magistrate for the assault . —The leader of this banditti , whose name was Camden , and formerly an inhabitant of that neighbourhood , immediately fled , and forcing his way through several strong-hedges , at last threw himself into the river Avon to avoid his pur-, siters ; but though an expert swimmer , lie had taken very few strokes before he turned up on the water dead ; and notwithstanding he was immediately taken out , without his having once sunk , he could not be recovered by any medical art . —The other three men were soon secured , and committed by Philips
Littleton , Esq . to Warwick gaol . Lezues , Oct . 27 . On Monday the 13 th instant a man , named John Ellis , died in a shocking state of hydrophobia , in a barn at Lichfold , near Petworth , in this county . The deceased had gone , with several others , a few weeks since , to see a cow which had been bitten by a supposed mad dog , and was in consequence confined in a stable belonging to Mr . Thullens , of Lodsworth : on the approach of the men the cow made a violent push at Ellis , but was prevented from
injuring him with her . horns by a rail or-gate which separated the stable from the spot on which the men stood , but a quantity of saliva or slaver from the cow's mouth was observed on Ellis ' s face , which he wiped off , and appeared fo think no more about it . A few days afterwards the poor man was observed to be unusually dull and melancholy ; and on enquiry being' made respecting his health , he said he was very ill ; the officers of the parish had therefore determined to remove him-from the barn in which he had taken up his abode , to the place of his legal settlement ; they accordingly proceeded the next morning to the barn for
the purpose above-mentioned , when the distempered man darted by them in a very extraordinary . manner , and ran across several fields with a dcree of velocity which astonished them , taking frequent leaps in his progress of seven or eiglit feet into the air ; he at length , however , got into a deep pit , which gave his pursuers an opportunity of coming up with him , and enabled them to secure VOL . III . 3 B