Tag: Burton Pynsent (location)

Western Gazette: Friday 10th October 1873

Langport County Court: Wednesday: … Jury Case: Adam Sherrin, farmer, etc. High Ham, v. James Taylor, yeoman, Nythe, Pedwell. This was a claim for £50, “for damages sustained by the plaintiff in consequence of the defendant’s negligence, in allowing a horse of his to unlawfully break into a field occupied by the plaintiff, and kick and otherwise injure a mare, from which injuries the mare died”. This was a jury case, and the following gentlemen were sworn to try it: Messes. Maurice Davis, Portway; T. T. Cuff, Burton Pynsent; Thomas Bicknell, Fivehead …

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Western Gazette: Friday 19th September 1873

Hambridge: On Wednesday, the members of the church choir and Sunday School teachers received their annual treat. In former years a seaside resort was generally chosen but, on this occasion, it was selected to hold the fete at Burton Pynsent …

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Western Gazette: Friday 16th May 1873

Welcome Home to the Vicar and Mrs. Mules: This village was on Tuesday evening last the scene of extensive and somewhat unusual rejoicing. Our readers will remember that the Vicar, the Rev. C. M. S. Mules, was, on the 17th of April last, married to Mrs. King, of Westhall House, Folke, near Sherborne … (description of return to Curry Rivel) … The happy pair arrived at the Taunton Station, on their return from the honeymoon, on Tuesday afternoon and proceeded thence to Curry in an open carriage, drawn by a pair of grey horses, and supplied by Mr. Thorne of the Langport Arms, Hotel. They were met at Burton Pynsent by a large number of people, headed by the village Brass Band, the members of which had come forth from Curry for that purpose …

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Western Gazette: Friday 16th May 1873

Welcome Home to the Vicar and Mrs. Mules: This village was on Tuesday evening last the scene of extensive and somewhat unusual rejoicing. Our readers will remember that the Vicar, the Rev. C. M. S. Mules, was, on the 17th of April last, married to Mrs. King, of Westhall House, Folke, near Sherborne … (description of return to Curry Rivel) … The happy pair arrived at the Taunton Station, on their return from the honeymoon, on Tuesday afternoon and proceeded thence to Curry in an open carriage, drawn by a pair of grey horses, and supplied by Mr. Thorne of the Langport Arms, Hotel. They were met at Burton Pynsent by a large number of people, headed by the village Brass Band, the members of which had come forth from Curry for that purpose …

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Bath Chronicle and Weekly Gazette: Thursday 6th March 1873

The Elder and the Younger Pitt: Their Connection with Bath: …. (long discussion) … Other records of the period inform us of the sincere respect which he retained to the last for his distinguished friend, one of the strongest proofs being that he left him £1,000 in his will. Soon afterwards, Mr. Pitt received a still more substantial token of regard from a Somersetshire baronet, Sir William Pynsent, who, having no children, bequeathed to him his estates at Burton Pynsent worth nearly £3,000 a year in admiration of his conduct. …  (continues) … In 1766, he spent some time in Bath, and he is stated in the newspapers of the day to have taken a house for seven years, but there is not race of renewed intercourse with his constituents. Having made a speech in the House of Commons on the Stamp Act he went to Burton Pynsent where he had formed large pans for the adornment of his estate. …. (long ongoing discussion of the two Pitts and of Burton Pynsent) … It might not be generally known that Burton Pynsent could be seen by travellers on the Bristol and Exeter Railway, close to Langport. The obelisk in the park there was not as people told them erected to Pitt; it was erected by Pitt in gratitude to Sir William Pynsent

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Western Gazette: Friday 1st November 1872

Curry Rivel, Drayton, Langport and Huish Episcopi Agricultural Association: The 32nd annual meeting and ploughing match in connection with the above-named society was held on Tuesday. The ploughing took place in a d field known as the “Nineteen Acres,” in the occupation of Mr. C. Evered at Curry Rivel. …. Prize List: First Class: Champion Ploughmen: Four Competitors: £5, James Grinter, in the employ of Mr. Wm. Rowsell, Hambridge, £3, John Templeman, in the service of Mr. T. T. Cuff, Burton Pynsent …

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Western Gazette: Friday 26th August 1870

Langport: Independent Chapel: The children attending the schools connected with the above Chapel, about 100 in number, had their annual treat, at Burton Pynsent on Wednesday.

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Taunton Courier and Western Advertiser: Wednesday 27th July 1870

The children receiving instruction at Paul’s Meeting Sabbath schools had their annual treat on Tuesday … On the same day Miss Pollard, of the North Street, Sabbath school, treated her class to Burton Pynsent.

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Central Somerset Gazette: Saturday 16th July 1898

Will of Mr. William Pinney: The personal estate has been valued at £96,610 4s 6d of Mr. William Pinney, of Somerton Erleigh, Somerset and of 20 Berkeley Square, London, J.P., F.R.G.S., High Sheriff, 1877, M.P. for Lyme Regis from 1832 to 1842. … … (continues) … … Having settled his estate at Burton Pynsent in favour of his nephew, Charles Frederick Pinney, on his marriage with Phyllis Julia Stuckey, the testator bequeathed to the trustees £2,000 to be expended in the purchase of adjoining land, or in the repair of the old mansion house. …. …

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Echo (London): Friday 16th December 1892

Mr. Sidney H. Preston, writing upon a strange piece of good fortune which has befallen a Lambeth pauper named Sheridan, says that £19,000 has been paid out of the state of Mrs. Helen Blake, of which £1,000 went to Mr. Gladstone. If testators frequently leave legacies to statesmen, the world seldom hears of it. The most notable instance, perhaps, was that of Sir Thomas Pynsent (sic) a Somersetshire baronet, who left the Earl of Chatham an estate in gratitude of his opposition to a tax of cider. A tower was erected to his memory at Burton Pynsent, which overlooks Sedgmoor.

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