Cloncurry

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ami de Cloncurry 12.10.1799 at Curran's

Cloncurry was Valentine Brown Lawless DNB 1773-1853 who was confined in the Tower of London on suspicion of treason and had recently succeeded to the title of Baron Cloncurry. Godwin's reason for not naming his friend might have been security rather than forgetting

McKitty

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McKitty 12.10.1799 at Curran's

Calton

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Calton 12.10.1799 Curran's / 15.10.1799 meet Calton

Taggart

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Taggart 10.10.1799 at Curran's / 12.10.1799 again / 28.10.1799 again / 29.8.1800 calls (& Curran) / 9.9.1800 sup at Taggart's with Curran

 

 

Heard

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Heard 10.10.1799 adv at Curran's

 

Alkmaar

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at theatre 7.10.1799 adv Perry (Alkmaar)

In the GD website the play record for this day is blank, it should be Romeo & Juliet by William Shakespeare, and Naval Pillar by Thomas James Dibdin (at Covent Garden). A battle between the British & French took place near Alkmaar on 2.10.1799 resulting in a British victory, the town of Alkmaar was taken on 4.10.1799. The journalist James Perry may have had some interesting news of it 

Rowley

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dr Rowley 4.10.1799 adv at James Marshall's / 8.7.1800 (in Ireland) Rowley at Caldwell's / 12.9.1818 sleep at Rowley's (Southend)

Dr Rowley may have been William Rowley DNB 1742-1806. Rowley in Ireland perhaps Clotworthy Rowley of Granby Row or Hon Clotworthy Rowley of Mountjoy Sq both Dublin 1795

Row (Rowe, Rowes)

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Row 3.10.1799 adv at Curran,s / 19.10.1799 again

Rowes at Joyce's 16.1.1806 / Rowes at Hodget's 27.10.1826

Row is a common name, and Rowe (which Godwin might well have spelt Row), very common, Rowes as a surname is quite rare, and the Rowes noted above may have been a couple, plural of Rowe. If so those at Joyce's may have been John Rowe (DNB 1764-1832) Unitarian minister at Lewins Mead, Bristol, and his wife Mary who died in 1825. I have yet to study the Hodget circle. William Rowes of 26 Surry Street, Strand, gent, insured SunFire 1804.

Weld, Richard

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Weld 3.10.1799 adv at Curran's

Richard Weld died 12.12.1799 (see Lloyd's Evening Post 13- 16.12.1799). All previous Weld entries in 1796 and 1797 are coded in GD website but the person record does not identify him, though David Fallon does in his article on booksellers in the Bodleian Library Record's issue on Godwin's diary. Richard Weld of Bolton St, St Geo Han Sq, voted Fox 1784, Fox & Tooke 1790

Goldsmith

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Commissioner's Room with Goldsmith 2.10.1799 / 8.10.1799 Goldsmith calls (not in) / 25.2.1801 mrs Goldsmith at S Elwes'. In Godwin's 1796 list for 1801 / 21.3.1801 S Elwes & S Goldsmith call / 19.4.1801 S E(lwes) & L Goldsmith call / 21.4.1801 call on L Goldsmith / 23.4.1801 evening at Goldsmith's with S Elwes, Egerton & others / 16.9.1801 meet L Goldsmith / 16.3.1802 call on Goldsmith (with McAdam) / 19.3.1802 sign with McAdam & Goldsmith