Kentish Gazette..
Folded broadsheet. Title decorated with vignettes of royal arms and Kent and Canterbury arms, etc. Red newspaper stamp at top. Newspapers and other periodicals are always offered subject to the usual wear and tear associated with ephemeral items. This issue has nearly a quarter of the last two pages torn off.
£15.00
Publisher
Kentish Gazette, Charles Petman Rouse, George Kirkby and James Lawrence.,
Place
Canterbury
Date
1819
Synopsis
No. 5311 friday, may 14 1819.
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 and other commodity prices. A letter to the printers discusses the question of agricultural distress and the utility of agricultural petitions. The Army Estimates are debated in the Commons. A grand match off cricket was played at Woolwich between eleven of the Royal Artillery and Engineers who had served in France and eleven who had remained at home. Further details of timing are given for the Canterbury horse dealer who rode from the city to London Bridge in under two and a half hours.
[Stock No. 22796]
