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Tuesday, September 8, 2009
9:00PM

Tewkesbury Gloucestershire Lewis Topographical Dictionary of England 1845

DateTuesday, September 8

TEWKESBURY (St. Mary), a borough, market-town, and parish, having separate jurisdiction, and the head of a union, locally in the Lower division of the hundred of Tewkesbury, E. division of the county of Gloucester, 10 miles (N. N. E.) from Gloucester, and 103 (W. N. W.) from London ; containing, with the township of Mythe, and that of Southwick with Park, 5862 inhabitants. This place, which is of great antiquity, is supposed to have derived its name from Theot, a Saxon recluse, who, during the latter period of the heptarchy, founded a hermitage here, where he lived in solitude and devotion, and after whom it was called Theotisberg, from which its present appellation is deduced. In 1715, a monastery was founded here by the two brothers Odo and Dodo, dukes of Mercia, and dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary, which, after having experienced great injury during the Danish wars, became a cell to the abbey of Cranborne in Dorsetshire.

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Sunday, April 26, 2009
3:36PM

Tewkesbury Universal British Directory 1791

DateSunday, April 26

An ancient, large, and populous, borough-town, is situated in a fine fertile plain, at the confluence of the navigable rivers Severn and Avon.  It sends two members to parliament, and is governed by two bailiffs and four justices, annually chosen out of twenty-four chief burgesses; it has also a high steward, recorder, town-clerk, and chamberlain.  This borough is not under the immediate influence of any individual.  Its independence is evinced by the honour it derives from so exemplary a representative as Mr. James Martin, whose integrity has manifested the rigid virtue which so deservedly ennobled the Grecian and Roman character.  To the honour of the British senate it should be recorded, that, being offered a share in the very advantageous loan of 1783, to a very great amount, he displayed the true dignity of parliamentary independence, by communicating to the house the insult that he conceived to be offered to the legislative assembly of the nation. – The other representative (in the new parliament of 1796) is W. Dowdeswell, Esq.

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Friday, April 17, 2009
12:16PM

The Year 1797 Remarkable and Interesting Incidents Relative to Tewkesbury Dyde 1798

DateFriday, April 17

In December 1797, in consequence of the appointment of Colonel Dowdeswell to the government of the Bahama islands, his seat in parliament for this borough was vacated; and Christopher Codrington, Peter Moore, and George Tollet, esqrs. were candidates to succeed him. Mr. Codrington was elected by a very considerable majority, but a rumour having prevailed, that he had been previously appointed one of the bailiffs of the borough, Mr. Moore, on the ground of that report, again presented a petition to the House of Commons, complaining of an undue election.

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The Year 1793 Remarkable and Interesting Incidents Relative to Tewkesbury Dyde 1798

DateFriday, April 17

1793. The floodgate pit at the quay emptied.

Source: The History and Antiquities of Tewkesbury by W. Dyde. Second Edition; Tewkesbury 1798

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The Year 1794 Remarkable and Interesting Incidents Relative to Tewkesbury Dyde 1798

DateFriday, April 17

1794. A very severe frost commenced on the 23rd of December, and continued with little intermission till the 7th of February following. A sudden thaw took place on the 8th, which occasioned a greater inundation than had been known for many years, and did very great damage to the roads and bridges. At the height of the flood the water rose to within a few inches of the memorable inundation of 1770. During this inclement season the benevolence of the inhabitants was very liberally exerted in behalf of poor housekeepers.

Source: The History and Antiquities of Tewkesbury by W. Dyde. Second Edition; Tewkesbury 1798

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